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...demonstrations in Copenhagen in the 1960s, demanded full control of all resources, known and undiscovered. The Danes were shocked, but eventually agreed in principle, although the exact scope of the resource rights remains to be spelled out. "We are satisfied so far," Motzfeldt told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs in Godthaab. "But we will not be pushovers for outsiders, Danes included. It is an exciting time. We must develop a modern society without ruining our environment and way of life...
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...
With the advent of home rule, Greenlandic, an Eskimo tongue, replaces Danish as the official language, and towns now have new names. Godthaab (Good Hope in Danish) becomes Nûk, which means Point, after the capital's peninsular location. Greenland is now Kalâtdlit-Nunât, or Land of the People. But new names do not solve old social problems, and Greenland's are serious...
...Hans Hedtoft left Copenhagen on her maiden voyage to the Greenland ports. She arrived uneventfully at Godthaab, capital of Greenland, and one day last week put to sea again bound for Copenhagen on the homeward leg of her maiden run. On board were 40 crewmen, a cargo of frozen fish, and 55 passengers, including one of Greenland's two Representatives in the Danish Parliament, and six children. Rounding Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of the island, known as the "worst in the north" for storms, the Hans Hedtoft struggled against the Arctic currents, icy polar winds and mountainous...
...Godthaab, capital of South Greenland (population: 700), Penfield and West made their way to the U.S.'s most northerly consulate. They were astonished to find that Greenlanders, with almost 24 hours of sunlight a day during the summer, have daylight saving time...