Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
British soldiers, who had come from their base in West Germany to Roermond to join the festivities marking the birthday of the Queen Beatrix, were shot by a member of the IRA, killing one.
The British soldiers had driven from their base in West Germany to the Dutch town of Roermond to relax and join the festivities marking the birthday of the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix. But the trip last week turned into a nightmare after a member of the Irish Republican Army opened fire…
Four Dutch TV newsmen set out to film rebel encampments in El Salvador were shot and killed. A large foreign press has rushed to El Salvador now.
In El Salvador, truth is elusive, danger too dose
At the Camino Real hotel in San Salvador, where most of them stay, the 200-odd foreign journalists in El Salvador daily swap stories of near misses and miraculous escapes. In one episode a photographer rolled under his car just in time…
Britain’s Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, was shot and killed in The Hague. There was strong speculation that the hit men worked for the Irish Republican Army.
Britain’s Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes’ Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the…
Lieut. Colonel Den Ouden, veteran of service in Indonesia, among the first to volunteer when The Netherlands decided to send a force to Korea, died in a ambush of Chinese communists.
Lieut. Colonel M.P.A. den Ouden, 40, paratrooper and veteran of service in Indonesia, was among the first to volunteer when The Netherlands decided to send a force to Korea. At the head of 600-odd Dutch soldiers, he arrived in the battle theater last November.
Colonel den Ouden and his men…