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...largest island gets semisovereignty from Denmark...
After 258 years, home rule finally came to the world's largest island last week. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik made the five-hour flight from Copenhagen to Greenland's Søndre Strømfjord airport, helicoptered another two hours to Godthaab, the tiny (pop. 10,000) capital, and handed over the autonomy decree, bound in red leather, to the 21-member parliament. The royal couple then trudged through a May Day sleet storm to the 125-year-old Godthaab church for a short Lutheran service. After a Danish patrol boat boomed...
...days after Harrisburg, 35,000 West Germans protested plans to build an underground nuclear dump near Groleban in northern Germany. They began chanting "We All Live in Pennsylvania," and the slogan was soon picked up by demonstrators back in the U.S. Major demonstrations occurred in Japan, in Denmark, and in other nations. French saboteurs blew up millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment destined for Iraq. The people of the industrialized world have begun turning against nuclear power, but their governments are wedded to the nuclear industry...
...DENMARK. The Nordic countries are the most expensive in Europe. Here too, though, one can find $40 hotel rooms and low-priced lodging in pristine country within two or three hours of the capitals...
...Scandinavian Rail Pass is good for 21 days' unlimited rail travel (first class about $220) in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland...