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...trouble began Dec. 2 when six South Moluccans took over a suburban Dutch railroad train; they vowed to hold it and its passengers hostage until the government of The Netherlands promised to help South Molucca Islands obtain their independence from Indonesia, a former Dutch colony. Two days later seven other South Moluccans invaded the Indonesian consulate, holding those inside hostage to back up the demands of their fellow terrorists. Three of the prisoners aboard the train were soon shot and killed by their captors, and one man died after jumping from a window of the consulate...
...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. Three people aboard the train had been killed by the terrorists; another died after jumping from a consulate window...
...train. The kidnapers stood firm. On the third day of the siege, after a fruitless round of negotiations, another passenger, wearing a yellow shirt and a red tie, was brought to a door of the train. He was shot fatally in the neck and flung onto the railroad bed. Soldiers standing a few hundred yards away openly wept at the cruel sight...
...such huge men, the front four have exceptional speed. With hands the size of bear paws and thighs the thickness of a railroad tie, Joe Greene measures 6 ft. 4 in. and weighs 275 lbs. Even so, he drives through the 40-yd. dash in less than five seconds, as fast as many running backs. Dwight White (6 ft. 4 in., 255 lbs.) and Greenwood (6 ft. 6 in., 230 lbs.) are faster, and Holmes (6 ft. 3 in., 260 lbs.) is only a minisecond slower...
...high and limiting competition. Last week, in line with this campaign, the Administration submitted to Congress a Motor Carrier Reform Act, which would largely remove interstate truck and bus transportation from federal regulation. This marked the third phase of a land-air offensive: earlier the Administration had proposed a Railroad Revitalization Act, which would lift the heavy hand of the Interstate Commerce Commission from railroads, and an Aviation Act of 1975, which would allow airlines freer competition in fares and routes. The three bills together, said Ford, would "produce a regulatory system that responds to the needs of the consuming...