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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...
...path of totality. But eclipse buffs near Roundup, Mont, (left), and other viewing areas in the U.S. Northwest and Canada were luckier. Armed with telescopes, cameras and other paraphernalia, they let out joyful whoops under mostly clear skies as the moon's shadow raced toward northern Greenland. It was an all too brief show-as long as 2 min. 36 sec. in Helena, Mont., less than a minute elsewhere-and a rare one. It will be a spell until the next U.S. performance...
...until 2017. On Monday, Feb. 26, the moon will slip between the earth and sun, and progressively blot out the solar disc along a so-called path of totality that begins in the Pacific Ocean west of Washington State, cuts northeast over Canada, then darts off and away toward Greenland...
...Norwegian Institute of International Affairs believes that "the incidents are linked to the Soviets' antisubmarine efforts." The Russians maintain a line of undersea sonar devices across the Arctic waters that separate Norway from Spitsbergen Island. NATO also has an underwater sensing line that extends westward from Vardo toward Greenland. One supposition is that the ships are somehow involved in a project to upgrade the Soviet antisubmarine spy system. Another is that they would like to tamper with?possibly eavesdrop on?NATO signals...
What appears to be the most promising solution may also be the simplest: a cable of thick nylon strands would be strung across a 3.1-mile-wide passage near the glacier to block outbound icebergs. Similar barriers already help keep Greenland harbors free of drifting bergs. A feasibility study directed by Kollmeyer concluded that 20 men could put the cable in place within 40 days after the glacier's retreat is confirmed. Estimated cost: $31.1 million. Declares Don Ryan, a marine safety specialist for the Coast Guard: "So far, no one has suggested that our study is wrong...