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...hymn to the life of the mariner. Morison has gathered together into a 1,000-year epic the sagas of all those serendipitous seamen who set sail with visions of Cathay or a Northwest Passage-or at least a new fishing ground-and instead bumped into places like Greenland, Labrador and finally the rest of North America. The familiar names are here: Leif Ericsson, discovering his mysterious Vinland around 1000 (Morison would like to believe it was Newfoundland); John Cabot, who sought a short cut to the Indies and ended up at Newfoundland in 1497; Giovanni da Verrazzano, the gentleman...
...Navy sent in investigators, then flew Mario Escamilla to Thule AFB in Greenland, and on to Washington. The pudgy, bespectacled Mexican American from Santa Barbara, Calif., freely admitted that he had fired the rifle. There was no place another-assailant could have hidden in the 8-ft. by 32-ft. trailer. The prosecution had a very strong case-with one catch. Though an American flag has flown on T-3 for nearly 20 years, the four-mile by seven mile ice mass does not belong to the U.S. When the State Department refused to accept Admiral Peary's annexation...
...first had not yet arrived. So did U.S. Air Force radarmen, who had been monitoring the course of both flights. The answer, apparently, was that No. 09303 -one of 20 such operational planes in the Soviet fleet-had crashed into the North Atlantic off the southeastern tip of Greenland...
...depth of 1,400 feet, where it had been lodged between two coal seams many millions of years old. It looked like a fresh chip. In 1968, a search party dug up the body of Charles Francis Hall, an explorer who was buried in a shallow grave at Greenland in 1871. He was almost recognizable...
There are enough pesky details to be settled to keep the talks going for at least 18 months, and perhaps much longer. And success is by no means guaranteed. Before they get to haggling over such questions as Denmark's special relationships with Greenland and the Faeroe Islands, the negotiators will deal with the main issue: Britain. It is widely assumed that London's third bid for Common Market membership will probably be its last. With the pound in reasonably robust shape, Britain is nowhere near as desperate as it was in 1967 when, hat in hand...