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...suspicious pilot had personally searched the two men before the takeoff from Amsterdam, but once the Pan American 747 was aloft they pulled pistols from crotch holsters and announced that they were hijacking the plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the plane to Cairo and eventually blew it up. That was in September 1970. While worrying about the series of Arab hijackings, Pan American also had a more mundane problem: Who was going to pay for its $24,288,759 plane? Was the 747 covered by the regular "all-risk" insurance issued...
When word got out that the Danish government was helping to fund Jens Jørgen Thorsen's blasphemous new film The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ, the Young Christians mobilized a protest march of 5,000 people through the streets of Copenhagen. In Amsterdam, a summertime citadel for hippies, many of Holland's 10,000 Jesus People joined a throng of young evangelists from overseas in distributing roses and Gospels as they marched to a park service. Some 8,000 youths, most of them from eastern Pennsylvania, descended on a potato field near Morgantown for an exuberant...
...chief legal tactician was Anthony Amsterdam, a law professor then at the University of Pennsylvania, now at Stanford, and his tactics soon began to pay off dramatically. Amsterdam and other lawyers won a stay from the Supreme Court in one case while the racial bias issue was being considered, scored a legal first with a previously unheard-of class action habeas corpus petition that blocked all Florida executions, and then in 1967 won a stay for everyone on California's death...
...quarter-century ago, when the delegates to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches met in Amsterdam, Swiss Theologian Karl Barth gave the ecumenical gathering a stern warning. "We are not the ones to change this evil world into a good one," he said. Yet Barth himself had found in the 1930s that his Christian conscience required him to support the defiant German "Confessing Church" in opposing Nazism...
...Seine is a river of filth; yet Parisians willingly drink its waters. The Moskva traces an equally grimy course through Moscow, but Muscovites will soon be able to hold a glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...