Word: bahamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week Ramirez, who says he is in the air-charter business, pleaded not guilty and was released on $200,000 bond-the required 10% of which was raised by a number of townspeople. The indictment alleged that one of Ramirez's planes was found abandoned on Grand Bahama Island last year with 397 Ibs. of cocaine on board (street value: approximately $90 million...
...Internal Revenue Service. Since then, in an investigation dubbed Dipscam, more than 20 diploma mills have been closed down and three operators have been sent to jail. Last week John Blazer pleaded guilty to mail fraud for sending out degrees from his bogus universities of East Georgia and the Bahama Islands; he received a two-year prison term. And in Arkansas last year, George C. Lyon, 79, was given a year in prison and fined $2,000 after selling FBI Agent Allen Ezell five phony degrees. Says Ezell: "I complained to him because a diploma I'd gotten...
...first, authorities were mystified about the voyage of La Nativité. Two of the survivors, all of whom were brought to Miami's Krome Ave nue North Detention Center, where 1,300 other Haitian refugees are being held, first claimed they had come via the Bahama Islands. They left Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti on Aug. 26, they said, and spent the next 31 days sailing through the Bahamas; they subsisted by catching crabs to eat and licking the rainfall off leaves, until finally setting off Oct. 18 on the last leg of their journey...
...Harvard Rugby team prepared for the upcoming spring season in several ways over spring break, most notably in the sunny, alcohol-soaked Bahamas where the squad compiled a 3-1 record. In the first match, on New Providence Island, RICHIE IORIO and CHARLIE W.A. BOTT each scored two tries to lead the ruggers to an easy 38-0 victory over the University of Virginia. In the next game, superb play by Bott and JACOUF DRISCOLL led the Crimson to a 40-3 defeat over Beck's Bucaaneer's Rugby Club--that team's worst defeat in two years...
...Ragged Island, where the eight Cuban fishermen were promptly jailed. The next day, two Cuban MiGs repeatedly swept low over the settlement, terrifying the residents. A Cuban helicopter carrying soldiers touched down briefly near the town. All the Cuban aircraft then flew off, having made the intended point: Bahama had better release the fishermen. The Castro government later claimed that the Flamingo had been mistaken for "a pirate ship." Bahama's Prime Minister Lynden Pindling scoffed at that excuse, noting that the Flamingo had been flying two Bahamian flags and was easily identifiable as a naval vessel. Said Pindling...