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...lack of U.S. and other major-power support for understaffed U.N. forces that was at the root of the failures that Elliott cited. U.S. pressure in the Security Council to withdraw rather than enlarge the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda contributed to the severity of the massacre. The Dutch peacekeepers who failed to act in Bosnia did not have adequate support or a mandate from the five permanent members of the Security Council--and the U.S. did not push for additional resources. And it is difficult to blame the U.N. for the failed mission in Somalia, which was composed mainly...
Here's a jolt from the Dutch bank cooperative Rabobank: a savings account that pays interest in coffee instead of cash. Rene de Jong, the managing director of the company's branch in Leiden, brewed the Coffee Savings Account as a way to support coffee farmers in developing countries, staying true to the company's agricultural-banking roots. Customers have to put away a minimum of about $1,000 for a three-year term to collect the annual interest of 12 bags of coffee, each of which contains 250 grams, about 8.8 ounces. That roughly amounts to a 4% return...
...favor of sweeping away the protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months in the Sahara desert by Muslim extremists. The nine Germans, four Swiss, and one Dutch national were captured in southern Algeria by the radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. The German government denied claims that it had fronted a ransom of almost €5 million to secure the release of the tourists, and pledge to help track down...
...some missions have been successful, like the Australian-led stabilization of East Timor. But from Somalia, where a humanitarian effort turned into a doomed attempt at nation building; to Rwanda, where U.N. forces failed to prevent a genocide, despite ample warnings that it was coming; to Bosnia, where the Dutch component of a peacekeeping contingent stood by while thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered in Srebrenica, the record of multilateral forces has hardly been distinguished...
...brewing in the Middle Ages. Yet even a German giant like Holsten is dwarfed by Heineken - which produced 11 billion liters in 2002 and is awaiting regulatory approval for its purchase of Austria's 2.6 billion-liter-per-year BBAG brewery for €1.9 billion. Shackleton explains that when Dutch and Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering the "premium" theme and buying up other breweries. German brewers, by contrast, were protected by the beer purity laws - which lost their teeth when the European Court declared them...