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While other viewers of long-track speed skating may see monotony, the Dutch see rhythm, tension and athletic grace. "Boring?" asks Diederik Peereboom, a Dutch native who works as a consultant in Brussels, who was desperately looking for a ticket to the 5,000-meter event. "Well, we think your football is boring. They stand around for three hours for what, 15 minutes of action?" (Watch a video of Olympic athletes training...
...palace recently, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands received two of Holland's top newsmen. Editor in Chief Dr.Maarten Rooy of the Nieuwe Rotter-damse Courant and Robert Peereboom of the Haarlems Dagblad. Said the Queen: she was upset by press coverage and pictures of her and Prince Bernhard on vacations. Would the editors kindly do something about it? Rooy and Peereboom, both officials of the Federation of Netherlands Journalists, most certainly would...
...over Holland, the two reminded their colleagues of an agreement that they had secretly signed five years ago. At that time, all Dutch editors agreed not to print anything about the royal family without prior clearance by the government. Apparently, some of them had forgotten, so Rooy and Peereboom thoughtfully enclosed new copies of the agreement to be signed again. But this time, they made the mistake of sending the agreement not only to Dutch editors, but to foreign newsmen in Holland as well. They also reminded them that stories about the royal family should be checked for accuracy before...
...reaction was prompt-and hardly what Rooy and Peereboom expected. Wired the Foreign Press Association: "Freedom of the press is seriously threatened." When Rooy was asked if it was not the duty of a newspaper to check everything it published, he replied that the papers have a special duty with respect to the Queen. He warned that foreign newsmen who ignored the agreement should not expect cooperation from the Dutch press. The issue, said Rooy, is one of "civilization," not censorship. The association then passed a resolution condemning the agreement, and mailed it to editors and top government officials...
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