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...France, where saboteurs had earlier blown up a $15 million nuclear reactor bound for Iraq, protesters from the Cherbourg suburb of Equeurdreville were urging the closing of another reprocessing plant. In Denmark, officials announced they were rethinking their plans for new plant construction, and in Sweden the atomic energy inspection board reported that two nuclear reactors similar to the one at Three Mile Island would have to be retrofitted with systems that would deflate any hydrogen gas bubbles...
...Denmark will retain control of defense and foreign affairs but trade, taxation and control of the fishing industry will be turned over to Greenland in stages by 1982. Full independence is not an issue, because one thing Greenlanders do not want to part with is their Danish subsidy, which now totals $250 million annually. This far exceeds the $100 million a year that the Greenlanders earn from fishing and mining (mainly zinc), and from such specialty exports as the ice cubes that are chopped from glaciers and sold in Denmark for status use in mixed drinks...
Greenland is beautiful but barren. Fifty times as big as Denmark, which has ruled it since 1721, it is 85% covered by an icecap up to two miles thick. The rest is rocky terrain virtually devoid of vegetation. On the shores, steep granite and basalt cliffs plunge into ice-choked fjords. Polar bears prowl the far north, reindeer roam the western coastal mountains, and a few hardy sheep are herded in the far south...
...landed on the island in the 10th century, named the grim, gray island Greenland in hopes of luring settlers from Scandinavia and Iceland. By 1500 the climate had killed off Eric's heirs, leaving only the Eskimos who had migrated through the Arctic from Asia. Denmark colonized the island in the 18th century, and made it a Danish county in 1953; discussions on home rule began...
...from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...