The World - News from Feb. 11, 1987

Dutch military police captured four men and recovered 60 Uzi submachine guns in cracking the Netherlands’ largest military arms theft case since World War II, an army spokesman said in The Hague. Two soldiers, one former soldier and a taxi driver were arrested in house searches across the nation, he said. The suspects and are not believed to be associated with a political cause, he added. The sweep yielded all but two of the 62 Israeli-made weapons stolen Jan. 23 from the Ede-Oost army base in central Holland.