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...everything possible to protect himself against kidnapers. Hidden TV cameras guarded his Amsterdam offices; high fences, security officers and vicious dogs protected his villa in Noordwijk, a seaside town 22 miles away. Last month his only daughter was married in secret, and though naturally spontaneous and gregarious, he asked newspapers to ignore his 60th birthday. As the multimillionaire chairman and majority stockholder of the brewery that bears his name, Alfred H. ("Freddie") Heineken had good reason to lie low: when a gang seized a fellow Dutch millionaire in 1977, making off with a ransom of $4.1 million, it inadvertently left...
...last week, three masked men suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...
...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...
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...