Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, May 26, 1977 Dutch, Mo Luc s ne ursda2 Duth,1olucans negotiate ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP) - As captive children chanted "we want to stay alive," Dutch government officials negotiated with South Moluccan extremists at a besieged school and hijack- ed train yesterday for the lives of more than 160 hostages. "The situation is still touch and go," a Justice Ministry of- ficial said of the telephone ne- gotiations, conducted with two government psychiatrists as in- termediaries. "HOWEVER, until this morn- ing they did nothing but issue deadly threats, and now the one- way conversation has been changed into a two-way conver- sation.", The gunmen want inde- pendence for their Pacific is- land homeland from Indonesia, a former Dutch colony. They had threatened to start shooting hos- tages if the government did not agree by 2 p.m. local time; 8 a.m. EDT yesterday to free countrymen jailed after a simi- lar terrorist action two years ago and fly them all out of the country. TILE DEADLINE passed with- out incident. Two hours before the deadline, several captive children were herded in front of classroom windows and chanted, "We want to stay alive, Van Agtl" It was an appeal to the chief govern- ment strategist dealing with the hostage situation, Justice Min- ister Andries van Agt. Six of the Asian militants were holding 105 children, aged 6 to 12, and six teachers hostage at the village school in Bovens- milde, just outside this north- ern Dutch city. Another group of seven terrorists, reportedly including one woman, was hold- ing at least 55 persons aboard a commandeered intercity train sitting in open pastures about 1 mile north of here. THEY SEIZED the school and train in simultaneous strikes Monday morning. More than 400 persons crowd- ed into a church in Bovensmilde for a prayer service yesterday. A clergyman asked the congre- gation to pray not only for the hostages but "also for those who hold our children, so they may see the terrible things they are doing to innocent people." Queen Juliana and Prince Bern- hard sent a telegram to the families of the children saying "Our heart is'with you in these terrible days." INSIDE THE TRAIN, some hostages - most of them stu- dents in their late teens and early 20's - were reported suf- fering from heat exhaustion, Daytime temperatures outside the train climbed into the low 80's. "It must be murder inside that sweat box," said one police- man staring at the train. "Temp- eratures must be frightful in those cars," BUT GOVERNMENT officials told the terrorists they would not discuss any deals until the children were freed. Fourteen of jailed South Mol- uccans are serving terms for a similar double terrorist strike in 1975, when they demanded that the Dutch government help them win independence from In- donesia for their homeland. The seven others were convicted of plotting to kidnap Queen Juli- ana. The South Moluccas, a cluster of islands 600 miles south of the Philippines, was once part of the Dutch East Indies colony, along with the rest of Indonesia. The Dutch have said repeated- ly they cannot help the South Moluccans. Despite the siege of terror here, there was a heavy turn- out at the polls in Bovensmilde and elsewhere Wednesday as Dutch voters elected a new par- liament for the first time since 1972. "It's no different from any other election day," said an election official in Bovensmilde. Four of the prisoners whose freedom the terrorists demand- ed were brought to the govern- ment "crisis center" here, offi- cials said, "We're keeping them on ice,". said one official. THE TELEPHONE talks were initiated by terrorist leaders on the hijacked train, officials said. The two groups of gunmen were linked to each other by a special telephone hookup that authori- ties pledged would not ,be moni- tored. After the deadline passed and AnnouninrgUnied' DC-lO NlqhtCoach to arrfomnia.. Sleep and save. as negotiations continued, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl told re- -porters in the capital of The Hague, "It looks as if there is a certain basis- for conversation developing. "How this is going to end can- not be predicted," he said. "But in the course of the morning, there has been rather intensive contact with the Moluccans both in the train and in the school." AIR MATRESSES were deliv- ered to the school for the chil- dren. The terrorists had asked for cots' but were turned down by authorities who feared the folding beds might be used to barricade the classroom where the hostages were being held. The children have also been given batches of toys, as well as food. Medication was sent in for three children known to be ill. At the train, the terrorists inexplicably refused an early de- livery of food brought to them by two policeofficers on a rail handcar yesterday. Combat police and army troops, along with specially trained antiterrorist units, ring- ed both locations. Antiterrorist experts from Britain flew in to advise the Dutch. But tension eased noticeably at Bovesmilde as the deadline passed - police officers who earlier seemed jumpy simply sat down in the shade and relaxed. At about noon, a group of South Moluccans from Bovens- milde, where 300 of the immi- grants live, walked to the school and appealed to the gunmen through a megaphone not to harm the children. A South Mol- uccan group later held a pray- er service in front of the school. Some of the terrorists were believed to be residents of the Assen-Bovensmilde area. 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