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Word: abaco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HEBRIDES: Coup in Paradise | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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