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...meantime, Greenpeace is reaping more free publicity than at any other time during its 14-year history. Last week a replacement for the Rainbow Warrior set sail from Amsterdam headed for the Pacific. The new flagship, a converted oceangoing 900-ton tugboat that has been christened the Greenpeace, will rendezvous with other ships to protest French nuclear tests in the South Pacific expected to be held in October. In a sharply worded statement immediately following the ship's departure, Mitterrand vowed to continue testing in the area and to repel all protests "by force if necessary." Greenpeace officials have said...
During the reprocessing tussle, Pakistan pulled off its most audacious espionage coup. It came to light after a quiet scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, resigned in March 1976 from his post as a metallurgist at the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory, known as F.D.O., in Amsterdam. The firm was involved in research and development at one of Western Europe's most advanced atomic installations, the URENCO uranium-enrichment facility at Almelo, also in the Netherlands. The plant is today one of Western Europe's major sources of low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. High-speed gas centrifuges like those at URENCO -- thousands...
...hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will be the country's biggest and most costly security operation. In Amsterdam, police have already arrested two young men for displaying posters offering a $4,200 reward for John Paul's assassination...
...American hunger for travel has inspired the major airlines to expand the number of transatlantic flights even beyond the usual summer increase. One expert puts the total at 97 more than last year. Pan Am alone is flying this summer to six additional cities: Amsterdam, Nice, Belgrade, Bucharest, Athens and Warsaw...
Reginald's brother, Warrington, was one of three Yale graduates to create the Black Filmmakers' Foundation, a Black film distributor and support organization that has sponsored film series in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam. Roach said that this organization helped him choose the films for the showings...