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...Clinton didn't have a very clear idea of what he wanted to do with the rest of his life when he boarded a government jet and headed for his newly purchased Dutch Colonial in Westchester County, New York, in January, 2001. He joked about going back to Arkansas and running for City Council. But those around him sensed a most uncharacteristic aimlessness as he contemplated what lay ahead. Interminable days of headlining charity benefits and starring in public service announcements didn't have much appeal. "I don't like bulls--- advocacy," he told aides in private. "I like...
What exactly happened on Northwestern Airlines flight 042 out of Amsterdam this morning still isn't clear, but to give themselves ample time to figure it out, Dutch authorities have formally placed a dozen passengers under arrest. The Bombay-bound DC-10 had just crossed into German airspace when the pilot radioed back to Schiphol Airport that some passengers were acting suspiciously and that he was turning around. Two Dutch Air Force F-16s scrambled from an air base in Leeuwarden to escort the plane back to Amsterdam. All the passengers were taken off the flight, but 12 of them...
...remain in custody at the airport lock-up this evening. But who are they and what exactly had they done to arouse suspicions? Lt. Col Vincent Egbers of the Royal Dutch Military Police would not confirm Dutch media reports that the group had been using cellphones and passing them back and forth among themselves. "I can't deny that report, either," he said...
...used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like creatures that hid in the island's many limestone caves. Supposedly the ebu gogo - the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything" - disappeared around the 16th century, when Dutch traders first came to this tropical island 350 miles east of Bali. It's a common myth with a convenient ending-as soon as witnesses who could have recorded the creature's existence come on the scene, the ebu gogo suddenly vanish. But then a team of researchers found...
...compound for a meeting and found themselves pinned down by artillery fire. On Tuesday morning, according to Reuters, automatic weapons fire ripped through the city and at least two government tanks headed towards the main area of fighting. The United Nations says it is flying in 400 extra Dutch and German peacekeepers on standby in nearby Gabon. They will join the 17,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops dotted around the vast central African nation. Diplomats from the U.N., South Africa and elsewhere are now scrambling to end the fighting before it spreads...