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...conditioned comfort of the pine-paneled hearing room in Nassau's Supreme Court building, the rotund witness mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling, by the government...
...asked disingenuously. "I didn't think it was quite that much." He admitted that he had received at least $1,000,000 in consulting and attorney's fees from companies controlled by Promoter Wallace Groves, an ex-Virginian whose political clout in the sun-drenched Bahamas has enabled him to turn his giant holdings on Grand Bahama Island into a lucrative industrial park and high-priced playground just 26 minutes by jet from Miami...
...were handsomely distributed among the rest of the U.B.P.'s ruling executive council-the body through which the islands' fate was firmly controlled for years by the white businessmen-politicians who are known as "the Bay Street boys." Sir Roland Symonette, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, signed on as a $20,000-a-year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting contract, at $15,000 annually. "I earned my fees," he testified last week, "advising on marine design, yacht purchases...
...campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama casinos, will be expelled from the islands when their residence permits expire at year...
...twin 427-h.p. MerCruisers and piloted by Florida's Odell Lewis, 34, who used to wrestle alligators for sport until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said, "but nothing is going to keep me out there on that ocean after dark...