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...DIED. AALIYAH HAUGHTON, 22, multiplatinum R. and B. singer and actress who released her first hit album when she was 14; in a plane crash, on Abaco Island, the Bahamas. Her two subsequent albums also produced chart-topping singles and sold millions. In 2000 she co-starred with Jet Li in the film Romeo Must Die and was slated to appear in the next two installments of The Matrix. DIED. YOSHIAKI SHIRAISHI, 87, a former sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers...
...unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free haven for free enterprise on Abaco, in the Bahamas. Over the past decade, Oliver estimates, he has spent $130,000 on air fares, radios, even flags, in support of Stevens' secession movement...
...there are more bareboat berths filled in a season than hotel rooms. Costing only between $150 and $300 per head per week, food and fuel included, bareboating compares favorably with a hotel vacation. Among the leading charterers are the Moorings (33 boats), Antilles Yachting Services (23), Fleet Indigo (14), Abaco Bahamas Charters (12) and Stevens Yachts (10). The oldest and largest firm is Caribbean Sailing Yachts, Inc., founded in 1967 by a sea-obsessed New Jersey dentist named Dr. John van Ost. C.S.Y. has 94 boats at its three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola...
...center. Pan American's Juan Trippe is developing a section of Eleuthera, has thus far built a private golf course, a 100-room hotel and a nightclub, and has even added a jet strip and two flights a day out of Nassau. Other developments are being pushed on Abaco, Great Exuma, Cat Island and Paradise Island...
...family: Wife Jean, 38; Son Brian, 14; Daughter Terry Jo, 11, and little red-haired René. Mary Harvey served as her husband's crew and ship's cook. For two days the vacationers cruised lazily among the Bahama islands. At Sandy Point on Great Abaco Island, their only port of call, they spent a pleasant weekend on the beach, and Dr. Duperrault told Roderick Finder, the British district commissioner, that it had been "a once-in-a-lifetime vacation." That night, under a mellow moon, Bluebelle set sail for Florida...