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...Massachusetts, ever since Dukakis supposedly cracked down on speeding violations, even the cops seem to drive estate wagons. Things are hidden from the Mass Pike, nicely shrubberied away, but upper New York is up front mobile homes on concrete blocks, set alone, and the decaying industrial cities like Amsterdam on the Mohawk River, where the carpet factory that bred the place is definitely not taking care of its own anymore, which shows. Outside of these towns like Herkimer and Fultonville sit grand junction-type Dutch mansions, propped-up and naked-looking, simple and sensible roosts for burghers long dead...
...hunting rifle boarded a four-car electric "milk train" at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten miles away, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passengers as hostages. As police and Dutch soldiers ringed the captive train, another group of terrorists struck in Amsterdam, forcing their way into the Indonesian consulate and taking 41 more hostages, including 16 children. By week's end the terrorists had murdered three people aboard the train, and four more had been wounded in the raid on the consulate...
Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, four people were injured-one of them by terrorist gunfire-when they escaped from a third-floor window at the Indonesian consulate. With police sharpshooters ringing the building, mediators negotiated the release of twelve children, but Dutch authorities refused to discuss the Moluccans' demands until all the children were freed. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt also declared that none of the terrorists would be given safe passage out of the country. At week's end it was clear that the Dutch were determined to play a waiting game with both groups of terrorists...
OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM...
Take the sleuths on the case. Sergeant De Grier and Adjutant Grijpstra cannot claim the instinct for violence or the deductive brilliance that makes for popular detectives. But the two plainclothesmen on the Amsterdam police force are far from plain. As they doggedly pursue their "eternal search" for "who knows something," they find sweetness in old whores, humor in dachshunds, beauty in drab streets...