Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following is a list of incidents of police brutality nationwide, culled from papers such as The Guardian, the Amsterdam News, and the Village Voice, all of which cover brutality cases thoroughly and more consistently than the big-circulation dailies. The Crimson published a list of brutality cases last January; this is a new list which gets longer every week. All the alleged victims in the following cases were Black, unlike the policemen involved...
...that French workers have foiled the plan by refusing to take pay cuts to go with the shorter hours. That has left companies without new funds to hire additional people. Some European observers argue that such an outcome should have been expected. Says P.O. Klandermans, a social psychologist at Amsterdam's Free University: "Employees may take wage cuts to avoid layoffs, but that is maintaining existing jobs, not creating new ones. I've never heard workers say that they were willing to take home less pay to create new jobs for someone else...
According to documents seen by TIME, Israel handled most of its sales through Faroukh Azzizi, an Iranian arms merchant who lives in Athens. The papers show that Azzizi purchased U.S.-made Tow missiles from Israel in November 1982. The shipment went to Amsterdam before reaching Tehran. Says a senior Western diplomat in Brussels: "Israeli and American claims that Israel made only a single, isolated sale are pretty disingenuous." The Israeli government firmly denies any wrong doing. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Nachman Shai last week: "We have not violated any agreement between the U.S. and us that forbids selling American-made...
Parts that are easily identifiable, such as missile tubes and ammunition, are generally shipped under inaccurate labels to countries where inspection is nonexistent or lax. Among the favored destinations: Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Singapore and The Netherlands. In Amsterdam, says an intelligence officer, "the stuff can arrive one night and be gone the next morning, and the boxes are never opened...
After stopping off at the University of Amsterdam to write a master's thesis attacking the Marshall Plan, Kelly moved in 1972 to Brussels and a job at European Community headquarters that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming...