Last week’s well-coordinated assaults on the train and the Bovensmilde school by South Mollucan terrorists took place two days before a national election.

A wave of revulsion and anger swept The Netherlands last week after terrorists seized more than 150 hostages in an effort to force the Dutch government to accept their revolutionary demands. The hostages included 55 passengers of an express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and—to the particular fury and…

South Mollucan terrorists held train passengers hostage. Demanding the Dutch help them gain independence from Jakarta. The Moluccan headache is a heritage of the old days of empire.

Early last Tuesday morning, six men carrying machine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle boarded a four-car electric “milk train” at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten miles away, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passengers as hostages. As police and Dutch…