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...Examining 3.8 billion-year-old rocks found in Greenland's Isua (Eskimo for "the farthest we can go") region, Ponnamperuma and other scientists found evidence of compounds called hydrocarbons, which are of major importance in organic chemistry. To discover whether these hydrocarbons had a biological origin, scientists analyzed the ratio of two isotopes, or forms, of carbon. They found that the amount of carbon 12, the isotope most utilized in biological processes, was high in relation to carbon 13. This indicates that the hydrocarbons were produced by photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds...
Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son 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...
There are no plans to leave NATO. The U.S. maintains airbases at Thule and Søndre Strømfjord and operates four early warning radar stations that probe deep into the Soviet Union. Eventually, Motzfeldt says, Greenland will "press the Americans to pay a tax for polluting our country with their planes and disturbing our people and wildlife...
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...
...well as only three lawyers). Asked whether the alcohol and VD problems could be solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...