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...John Paul visit with violent physical hostility. However, it was generated by a fringe assortment of anarchists, homosexuals and punk youths. Street brawls by youths in the tiny nation have become such a fixture that the Dutch hardly seem to notice them anymore. The ugliest episode began in Utrecht with protesters who had assembled under a legal permit. Several dozens of the 1,000 marchers sang, "We're going to kill, kill, kill the Pope tonight," while pelting police with rocks, bottles and smoke bombs. At one point, a bottle, cans and eggs were hurled toward the bulletproof white Popemobile...
...invitation-only indoor events were filled to capacity but proved troublesome in a different way. The Pontiff was repeatedly confronted over his conservative policies. The most dramatic episode took place in Utrecht during a talk by Hedwig Wasser, a middle-aged mother of three, on behalf of the National Council of Missionary Societies. Although the Dutch hierarchy had tried to screen out dissidents who might challenge the Pope, Wasser departed from her text, which had been cleared in advance, to ask John Paul, "Are we preaching the liberating gospel in a credible way . . . if we exclude rather than make room...
...from their voters, governments placed heavy restrictions on new immigration. Too late. A new, alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen other working-class communities around Britain...
Meanwhile, after spotting a suspect bringing two takeout Chinese dinners to the desolate carpenters' yard, the police became virtually positive that the captives were being held there. That feeling was buttressed as the police followed one man from the hideout to Utrecht, where they saw him place another note inside a plastic cup. The cops were reluctant, however, to endanger the victims' lives by storming the building. When the missing men had failed to appear two days after the ransom's delivery, the authorities finally resolved to seize the suspects and raid the unguarded warehouse...
...status of Gibraltar. It is governed by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, and again the governing thing is the wishes of the people of Gibraltar. I have always found great difficulty with the U.S. in not understanding this. The U.S. is founded on freedom and self-determination and democracy. Why do they find difficulty in applying that to the Falklands or to Gibraltar...