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Bouterse had stumbled into power in 1980. As a physical-education instructor fighting for the military's right to form a union, he managed almost inadvertently to overthrow the democratically elected, but divisive, government of Henk Arron. At first, the new regime was so diffident that it hung up a suggestion box soliciting advice on how to run the country, and Bouterse, its popular and athletic leader, even resolved to complete his high school education. Only much later was it discovered that one of his tutors had become his mistress and was schooling him in the writings of Lenin...
Innocent Victims. The latest acts of terrorism could inadvertently result in tragedy for other innocent victims -Moluccans who had nothing to do with the kidnapings. Angry Dutch burghers talked of mounting vigilante attacks on the islanders' settlements, and fearful Moluccans were arming themselves. Said Socialist Deputy Henk Molleman, who has worked since the 1975 attacks to improve relations: "I see little hope for a peaceful community of Moluccans and Dutch...
...field maneuvers, in fact, even the most skeptical of Holland's allied commanders admit that the Dutch soldiers perform as well as spick-and-span units from other nations. When the Soviet Ambassador to The Netherlands chided Defense Minister Henk Vredeling on his soldiers' long hair, Vredeling replied that Samson also had long hair-and nobody wondered whether he could fight...
...become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled in a British boys' school. It was his first contact with the rooineks (red necks, an Afrikaner term of derision for the British who burned easily in the hot South African sun), and he hated them...
...Henk was a brilliant student, and fired with the zeal of mission: the salvation of South Africa for its rightful owners, the Boers. Turning down a fat scholarship in Britain, he entered Stellenbosch University, the fountainhead of Afrikanerdom, and became South Africa's first Ph.D. in mass psychology. In 1927, he married Elizabeth Schoombee, a petite fellow student at Stellenbosch. In many ways, Betsie Verwoerd is as remarkable as her husband. Holder of an M.A. in education, she has borne him five boys and two girls-and brags that no black ever bathed them or put them...