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...early 1960s, he was encouraging graduate students and junior faculty members to view the Fogg as a place to pursue their interest in [for example] Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Caro, and Kenneth Noland--as well as in the Mannerists, in 20th-century photographers, and in Dutch and Flemish print makers. This wise eclectic spirit nurtured the Museum, and infused the Department, in a way that allowed individuals and the University to flourish together...
According to an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, van der Kuijp is a Dutch-born Canadian citizen who began his studies in mathematics...
...life of a peacekeeper is pretty dangerous in any case. More than 300 Dutch troops captured by the Serbs in Srebrenica were released through Belgrade only last Friday. In besieged Zepa, the 79 Ukrainians on peacekeeping duty were first disarmed by Bosnian government soldiers, then driven into their shelters. Bosnian troops in Zepa threatened to kill the Ukrainian peacekeepers if the U.N. did not send a high-ranking negotiator. The Serbs made that impossible by closing the approach road and next day opened up with mortar and artillery fire. The Bosnian government forces responded, and some of their shells...
Summoning a cavalcade of buses and trucks, the Serbs mounted a full-scale "ethnic cleansing" operation. They packed thousands of Muslim women, children and old men into the vehicles and shuttled them west to territory controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. Assembling at the base of a Dutch U.N. battalion in Potocari, a town just north of Srebrenica, Muslim families walked to the buses through protective rows of peacekeepers. But behind the 400 Dutch soldiers stood glowering Bosnian Serb troops. "The most incredible thing was the silence," said a Serb witness. "It was the silence of pure terror...
...move against the eastern enclaves is another matter the Western governments are trying to figure out. Many military officers, including some on the U.N. staff and at nato, believe the Serbs are acting to pre-empt the new 10,000-troop Rapid Reaction Force the French, British and Dutch decided to deploy after hundreds of their peacekeepers were taken hostage...