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...work in other TV dramas, the actor garnered international recognition for the role of the enigmatic Oxford-based detective in 1987. Thirteen years later, more than 13 million fans tuned in to watch the show's final episode. DIED. JOHANNES CORNELIS PRINCEN, 76, a former Dutch colonial soldier who became one of Indonesia's leading human rights activists; in Jakarta. Princen deserted the Dutch army in 1948 and joined the guerrillas fighting for Indonesia's independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges...
...Dutch are using a more innovative technique for discouraging cell-phone thieves. In Amsterdam, police spam stolen cell phones with short message service (SMS) technology. When a victim reports a theft, police take the number and send an SMS message every three to five minutes to the stolen phone. It says: "You are in possession of a stolen cell phone. Did you know that stealing a cell phone is a crime punishable by imprisonment? Using a stolen cell phone is too, and you are risking a prison term of one year...
...strategy has been so successful - driving theft down by 50% - that in mid-February Rotterdam police adopted it as well. But not everybody is happy. Civil libertarians question the legality of police obtaining cell-phone numbers without a warrant. And while sending SMS messages is free for the Dutch police, it is not free for Dutch service providers - some of which have declined to participate...
...European Union, 65% of the steel is now produced by just five firms, while employment in the industry dropped 33% in the 1990s. Led by giants such as Germany's ThyssenKrupp, the Dutch-Anglo venture Corus and the multinational conglomerate Arcelor, the E.U.'s mills are now among the world's least polluting and most productive. "Should restrictive trade measures be adopted, it still doesn't solve the problems of U.S. integrated producers," says Gordon Moffat of the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries...
...support for Hitler, his contacts with Himmler and his hostility to the Nuremberg trials are documented, as is the shameful behavior of Argentine diplomats who connived in the operation while making ransom demands on Jewish families seeking visas. The logistical role played by KLM, the Dutch airline, is fleshed out. And Allied forces in Europe are shown to have turned a blind eye to what was going...