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- 26 October 1976 - c. December 1976 (Creation)
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Includes notes on:
(1) European economic negotiations
(2) the IMF (International Monetary Fund)
(3) the Moluccans community in the Netherlands
(4) heroin problem in the Netherlands
(5) tensions with the Surinamese community in the Netherlands
(6) fish quotas
(7) summary of some political figures’ (including President Anwar Sadat) views on the Palestine / Israel situation
(8) reports from a summit at which the French President made a strong attack on the amount of money Britain was getting as compensation for the fall in the pound known as the Green £ System. Prime Minister Callaghan defended the system
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The Moluccan community in the Netherlands numbers around 70,000. Arriving in 1951, they were predominantly former soldiers of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. They were promised assistance in establishing an independent South Moluccan state. When the independent state wasn’t established the Dutch government did not facilitate their return and this community faced decades of isolation, often housed in repurposed WWII concentration camps. Frustration led to radicalisation in the 1970s, resulting in heavily publicised train hijackings and hostage crises by younger generations.