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...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...
WHAT REMAINS is best captured in a letter Abigail wrote two days after Christmas in 1778: "How insupportable the Idea that 3000 leigues, and the vast ocean now devide us--but devide only our persons for the Heart of my Friend is in the Bosom of his partner. More than half a score years has so rivetted it there, that the Fabrick which contains it must crumble into Dust, e'er the particles can be separated...
...nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon the vast suburban sprawl so many of us call home, or to face...
...Musical Jubilee originated as a cruise-ship "entertainment." At last report, the St. James Theater was an chored at Manhattan's 246 West 44th St., but it may just possibly prove to be an ocean-going vessel...
Columbia, once the gem of the ocean, but now the Ivy League doormat, was stabbed by the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers...