THE NETHERLANDS,GREECE: The Souring of the Dutch

THE NETHERLANDS

When Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl arrived at Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium last week to attend the Holland-Belgium soccer match, a chorus of boos and catcalls rose from the capacity crowd of 65,000. A week earlier he probably would have been cheered.

The difference a week made lay in what was happening to The Netherlands as the only European nation under a total Arab oil embargo. The gay spirit of solidarity in the face of adversity that first swept the nation was giving way to misgivings. Already the weekend business of...