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City officials say they will turn off the red lights and shutter a third of the prostitution “windows” in Amsterdam’s famed Red Light District, where scantily-clad ladies of the night have beckoned customers for hundreds of years. The move is part of a crackdown on crime in the area. The Dutch government legalized prostitution in 2000 to make it easier to tax and regulate.