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...always prided itself as the archetype of the liberal society, is Holland's community of some 35,000 refugees from South Molucca, a group of islands that is now part of Indonesia (see map). The cause of the backlash against the South Moluccan minority was one of the longest terrorist sieges in memory. At week's end, South Moluccan gunmen who had taken over a railroad train near the town of Beilen 13 days ago finally surrendered and released 23 hostages. Terrorists still held the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam, where they had another 25 lives to bargain with...
...Production of goods and services, discounted for inflation, will rise about 6.2% for the year. That will make 1976 a year of growth after the longest downturn since 1947-48; real gross national product dropped 2% in 1974 and probably will be down a shade under 3% in 1975. But the growth rate will slow at least a bit by the end of 1976, unless Government policy changes unexpectedly...
...hours spent in conference with old adversaries more the measure of success than what was said. Nobody has yet been told what Chairman Mao Tse-tung said to Ford, but we all have been bludgeoned with the fact that the meeting lasted an hour and 50 minutes, the longest audience Mao has granted this year...
...There just aren't that many up-front roles for actresses these days," pouts Carol Kane, echoing Hollywood's longest running complaint. At 23, though, Kane seems to be doing all right. Cast as a winsome prostitute in The Last Detail, and as a bank robber's hostage in Dog Day Afternoon, she has finally found her proper niche in Hester Street, in which she stars as a Jewish immigrant to the U.S. in 1896. Says Kane: "I'm told I have the look of a different century...
...glass of wine and sing Happy Birthday. Then, when the song died down, Chief Justice Warren Burger called for attention. Solemnly he announced that William Orville Douglas had written a note to President Ford saying he was retiring that day, after nearly 37 years on the court-the longest term served by any Justice in history. When the suddenly subdued lunch eventually ended, Burger and the others each stepped up to the crippled senior Justice to shake hands and whisper a few private words of encouragement and farewell...