Word: str
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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...
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...
Varsity--1. New Hampshire 4:04.4; 2. Radcliffe Lightweight (cox S. Peterson, str. J. Nevin, 7 K. Kirk, 6 K. Laine, 5 M. D'Innocenzo, 4 A. Jessel, 3 N. Mauro, 2 M. Finnemore, bow P. McCree...
Varsity--1. Radcliffe 5:36.2 (cox L. LaFollette, str C. Strong, 7 A. Benton, 6 T. Munoz, 5 T. Laughlin, 4 J. Stone, 3 B. Goff, 2 K. Ronan, 1 N. Worsley); 2. Princeton 5:42.6; 3. Cornell...
Varsity--1. Harvard (cox P. Cordeiro. str. J. Brown, 7 P. Lakhdir, 6 M. Smith, 5 J. MacMillan, 4 K. Gaut, 3 M. Worrell, 2 M. Cominsky, bow R. Vagelos) 5:48.7; 2 Penn 5:54.1; 3 Cornell...