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Serious disturbances have flared in the Netherlands, a country once known for its tranquility. It is the South Moluccans again. What has happened is not simply a replay of the scenario that hit the front pages all over the world last year. At that time a group of South Moluccan terrorists brought a train to a standstill in a somewhat desolate area and took nearly all of its passengers hostage. For a brief period a school in the vicinity served as a subsidiary scene of terror. The schoolchildren were released within a week, but the train siege set a hijacking record. Negotiations proved fruitless, and after some twenty days the Dutch Government, believing there was no alternative left, had the marines storm the train. The surprise action claimed the lives of six terrorists and two hostages. The surviving hijackers have now been brought to justice, and the trial predictably produced a great deal of commotion in Holland, particularly among the Moluccan communities.