Dutch parliament last week somberly debated whether the 65-year-old royal consort should be prosecuted, but the chamber voted overwhelmingly against prosecution

Like the Watergate scandal from which it once sprouted, the Lockheed scandal seems to have acquired a quality of indestructibility. Even when the charges of corruption are officially denied, they keep reappearing as rumors and innuendoes. Last week, as the scandal once again rippled across Europe, a parliament debated whether…