Word: abaco
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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...