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...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. Three...
Dutch anger at the South Moluccans could subside as quickly as it arose once the grim episode has been concluded. Nonetheless, hundreds of citizens lined up last week to sign a petition calling for especially severe penalties for terrorist crimes. At week's end, there was great concern for the fate of the 25 hostages held by the South Moluccan terrorists at the Indonesian consulate-especially after seven shots were heard inside the building on Sunday...
...Lebanon, leaving at least 100 dead and more than 150 wounded -the heaviest death toll in such raids since February 1973. During attacks on refugee camps near Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon, the hamlet of Kafr Tabnit was razed almost to the ground. Israeli military spokesmen said the targets were terrorist bases, including the headquarters of the Syrian-backed Saiqa guerrillas who are thought to be responsible for a Nov. 21 raid on the Golan Heights in which three Israeli militiamen were killed. Some form of Israeli reprisal had also been expected for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem earlier in November...
Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, four people were injured-one of them by terrorist gunfire-when they escaped from a third-floor window at the Indonesian consulate. With police sharpshooters ringing the building, mediators negotiated the release of twelve children, but Dutch authorities refused to discuss the Moluccans' demands until all the children were freed. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt also declared that none of the terrorists would be given safe passage out of the country. At week's end it was clear that the Dutch were determined to play a waiting game with both groups of terrorists...
...taunted Syria for having sought a private agreement with Israel by begging for a cease-fire only 24 hours after the fighting commenced in 1973. Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps are crammed with people whose only crime was a word of objection against the terrorist Baath Party." When Kissinger attempted to arrange a European meeting between Assad and Ford following the American President's trip to Rambouillet, Egyptians deliberately leaked the details while Assad was in Moscow. The premature Egyptian announcement forced Assad to deny the Ford talks in order to salvage his Moscow...