ENSCHEDE - Jurgen van Houdt, wethouder asiel en integratie van de gemeente Enschede, werd in oktober vorig jaar meerdere malen bedreigd vanwege de komst van het azc. Van Houdt noemt die bedreigingen ‘heel moeilijk’.
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Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling "Future Shock" and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died. He was 87.
He died late Monday in his sleep at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Yvonne Merkel, a spokeswoman for his Reston, Virginia-based consulting firm, Toffler Associates.
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