Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects of a higher carbon dioxide level will not be known for ten to 20 years, Heinrich Holland, professor of Geology, said yesterday...
...Holland added that he does not foresee any serious effects in the future. "We've already probably increased the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere by 15 to 20 per cent since 1850 and there's been no immediate effect on the earth's climate," he said...
...Khan was politely but firmly told to leave Almelo, and went back to work in his Amsterdam laboratory. Shortly afterward, he told friends that he had been asked to return to his native Pakistan and serve in the Economic Affairs Ministry. Sadly, he bade them goodbye, his sojourn in Holland completed...
...that Khan got his chance to get into the gas centrifuge plant at Almelo. Owned and operated by a consortium called Urenco, it was administered jointly by Britain, West Germany and The Netherlands. Khan had first come to Holland in 1963 at the age of 27 to enroll in the prestigious Technical University of Delft. He performed well, both there and, later, in the doctoral program at Belgium's Catholic University in Louvain...
...department that had no dealings with Almelo. At the same time, the Dutch intelligence agency Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst began an investigation. They learned from Khan's neighbors that a black Mercedes with diplomatic license plates often visited his house. Before the inquiry progressed further, however, Abdul Qadar Khan left Holland in late 1975 to take up his new "job" with the Economic Affairs Ministry...