Three Japanese Red Army commondos seized eleven hostages at the French embassy in The Hague. They left the Netherlands in a Boeing 747. Their whereabouts remain a mystery.

The pattern was all too familiar. Three men, armed with pistols and a grenade, strode into the French embassy in The Hague just before closing time and occupied the fourth floor of the modern concrete and glass building. Seizing eleven hostages, including French Ambassador Count Jacques Senard and several business…

Two bearded, 32-year-old Moslem missionaries in the Hague try to convert Dutch people to the moslem faith. Not rather succesful, in two years, they have made ten Dutch converts.

Early evening crowds thronged the neon-lighted sidewalks of the Spui (The Hague’s Broadway). Many of them were moviegoers, eagerly getting down from busily clanging streetcars to see Song of My Heart, Fallen Idol, or Till the Clouds Roll By. A few, however, drifted unobtrusively towards a second-floor meeting room of…