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...target of all this rage, in a country that has always prided itself as the archetype of the liberal society, is Holland's community of some 35,000 refugees from South Molucca, a group of islands that is now part of Indonesia (see map). The cause of the backlash against the South Moluccan minority was one of the longest terrorist sieges in memory. At week's end, South Moluccan gunmen who had taken over a railroad train near the town of Beilen 13 days ago finally surrendered and released 23 hostages. Terrorists still held the Indonesian consulate...
...become accustomed to random acts of violence by terrorists, ranging from Basque extremists to Irish Republican Army gunmen to Palestinian guerrillas. But the perpetrators of last week's outrage-as well as their cause-were little known outside The Netherlands. The terrorists were Indonesians from the South Molucca islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they were demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime...
...last week unmarked planes ranged the Molucca and Celebes Seas, the Strait of Makassar, the Banda Sea and the Djailolo Passage. At Amboina the Italian freighter Aquila was bombed and sunk, the Greek ship Armonia strafed, the Panamanian Flying Lark left with nine dead. On the open seas an Indonesian merchant ship, recently purchased from the Soviet Union, was riddled, and its Russian captain broadcast a frantic S O S to Djakarta, reporting five dead...
...cover MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The groundwork for this leapfrog move, had already been prepared. Incessant pressure by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces, said MacArthur this week, had apparently forced the enemy to withdraw his air forces westward from the Molucca Islands* to bases beyond Allied bomber range...
...already struck at the Indies, hard, viciously, successfully. He has landed troops in Sarawak. He has put down three landing parties on the northern handle of Celebes, from which he may well establish some sort of control over sea traffic in the Straits of Macassar and Molucca Strait to the east and west of Celebes. He has also grabbed the little Dutch island of Tarakan (off Borneo), where the oil flows from the wells so pure that it can be pumped into the fuel bunkers of ships without refining...