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When Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl arrived at Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium last week to attend the Holland-Belgium soccer match, a chorus of boos and catcalls rose from the capacity crowd of 65,000. A week earlier he probably would have been cheered...
Guinier sent his letter to the Times Magazine September 24, and later sent it to the Amsterdam News, a New York black newspaper, which also printed it this week...
Kilson wrote replies to Guinier's letter in both the Times and the Amsterdam News...
None of these things is to be relied on. What is more certain is that this second Mercader's presence in Amsterdam has attracted agents from the CIA (mostly bumblers), from the KGB (more humane and more efficiently murderous), and from East Germany. Mercader appears to work with the Russians-but possibly has become a no-longer-useful and hence disposable double agent for them. Amsterdam is filled with other people who seem to bounce off him at random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers...
Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...