Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside, all Holland was ablaze with tulips, but in one bare-walled room of The Hague's Princess Juliana Kazarne, the dominant colors were the army green of the ashtrays and the top-secret red of the wastebaskets. There were no flowers in the room for the simple reason that they afford a natural receptacle for hidden microphones. This week, as NATO's 15 Foreign Ministers gathered for their 15th spring meeting around the long, oval table in that closely guarded room, the most intimate secrets of the Western alliance were up for discussion...
Petty Game. Dutch opinion, though in less perfervid language, essentially agreed that the princess was letting herself be used by the Carlists for their own purpose, however absurd, of gaining the Spanish throne. To a lot of people outside Holland, this petty political game-and the government's anxious insistence that the Dutch monarchy must stay out of it-did not seem reason enough for Irene's own parents to boycott the wedding. But under the Dutch constitution the government is held responsible for the monarch's actions. Besides, Holland maintains a sometimes precarious balance between...
...Disputatious. The trouble is that the consortium already has permission to drill from the coastal states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen, whose right to grant such permission is now hotly disputed by Bonn. An even thornier question is how to divide mineral rights between Germany and Holland, as well as among Denmark, Norway and Great Britain, all of whom front on the North Sea. Hope that these five nations could deal objectively with the issue looks dim. "It seems to us that countries that in past ages have had only trouble from the sea," said Rotterdam...
...service had worked fairly smoothly, spokesmen for the strikers now warned that it would not be continued. Because contagious diseases were sometimes bedded next to others in the crowded hospitals, doctors also warned of imminent epidemics. Belgian husbands with pregnant wives were taking them over the border to France, Holland or West Germany to be sure of obstetrical care...
That evening the couple flew back to Amsterdam, where Carlos, hoping to strengthen his tenuous claim to the Spanish throne,*pressed for the wedding to be held in Holland, with all of Europe's royalty invited. Incredibly, he even wanted the Roman Catholic marriage to be held in Amsterdam's 17th century Nieuwe Kerk, even though it is a Protestant church, where such a ceremony is palpably impossible. When Juliana refused, Irene abruptly decided to stay home from a scheduled state visit to Mexico with her mother. And in further retaliation, Irene issued a public statement that...