Word: bahamians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vizinczey's entertaining display of granted wishes takes a peculiar turn. He writes: "Perhaps nothing about Mark Niven's life is of such general significance as the way he lost his fortune." The ominous shadow of a moral descends over the proceedings. Mark must contend with a confiscatory Bahamian government, which demands half of his take before he even recovers it. Then other sharks start circling: an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer named John Vallantine, who decides to relieve Mark of his remaining $150 million, and corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick off the leftovers. Drowning in litigation...
...Morning Star community, "Theresa and Larry Jackson just returned from a Bahamian cruise they won playing Chevrolet bingo. The cruise lasted five days." In Pindall, "Edith Vaughn has a new roof and two porches over her trailer house. It looks good." In Oxley, "Mr. and Mrs. Junior Harness took two loads of pigs to Thayer, Mo., last week. They were nice pigs." In the classifieds: "If your cows could talk, they would say buy a registered...
Because the islands are so close to the U.S. (the nearest is only 50 miles from the coast of Florida), American officials link the U.S. drug problem to the Bahamian traffic. The U.S. has offered Pindling equipment and expertise to destroy airstrips on uninhabited islands where light planes transporting drugs can easily refuel. But Pindling has refused the aid, calling it "inadequate and insufficient." Former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson told the commission he was "gravely concerned about whether the police administration was really concerned about eradicating drug trafficking." Bahamian Attorney General Paul Adderly adds that both the U.S. Justice...
...years the FBI has pursued Vesco, lately investigating his possible links with drug smuggling in the Caribbean, but no indictments have been sought. The probe once stalled when the FBI wanted to set up a sting operation to catch Bahamian officials taking bribes. The CIA station chief in the Bahamas and U.S. Ambassador Lev Dobriansky opposed the plan, and it was scuttled, for fear that any such investigation might jeopardize negotiations with Pindling's government over the continued use of a U.S. submarine-testing base there...
...people," says a Caribbean drug authority, "but he's not the kingpin." Finally, Caribbean drug dealers rarely trade in both marijuana and coke, as Vesco is accused of doing. Moreover, it seems that the drug charges against Vesco may have been inflated by U.S. officials hoping to pressure Bahamian authorities to extradite the financier...