Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pirate radio ships operating in the North Sea. Anchored just outside territorial waters off The Netherlands, these vessels beam a mixture of pop music, disk-jockey egos and insistent commercials into homes otherwise served only by relatively sedate Dutch broadcasting. Until recently, this profitable operation was shared by Radio Veronica and Radio Northsea, which had agreed to a truce after three frogmen hired by one of Veronica's owners had planted a bomb aboard Northsea (TIME, May 31,1971). Now, though, something new has come between Veronica and Northsea...
...Caroline, which was named by her Irish owner Ronan O'Rahilly (pronounced O'Reilly) after John F. Kennedy's daughter, has now been reduced to one ship, a rusty old coastal vessel called Mi Amigo. Just before Christmas, she anchored in the 300-yd. gap between Veronica and Northsea, five miles off the coast of The Netherlands, and started competing with them for Dutch listeners...
SUNDAY: Sleeping Beauty. Rudolf Nureyev and Veronica Tennant star in Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet. Filmed by emmy-winner Norman Campbell at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre. CH. 2. 7 p.m. Color...
Growing desperate, some of Veronica's officials decided on sabotage. They hoped to shut down Northsea's transmitter, disable the ship and force it into a Dutch harbor where it could be confiscated for its still unpaid debt...
...three frogmen, who had been promised more than $7,000 apiece for the job, and charged them with robbery in international waters. The following day they collared one of the men accused of organizing the plot-Dutch Businessman Norbert Jurgens, 48, a large stockholder and employee of Veronica's. At week's end they also arrested and indicted as an accomplice Hendrik ("Bull") Verwey, one of three Dutch brothers who are the principal owners of Veronica. "We never wanted it that way," said Verwey. "No violence-oh, no. You know, the thing got out of hand...