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Word: bahamians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being used for psychiatric or neurological conditions are also showing some promise. Flupenthixol, currently prescribed overseas for schizophrenia, seems to soften the "crash," a unique combination of depression and craving that follows one cocaine binge and typically leads to another round. In preliminary trials on a group of ten Bahamian crack addicts seeking treatment, researchers from Yale found that even low doses kept users off cocaine for the two-month duration of the trial. Another drug, carbamazepine, long taken to prevent seizures, has proved to be moderately effective against cocaine craving. In tests this year, six of 13 people taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Can Drugs Cure Drug Addiction? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 30, 1989 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Among those indicted were a Massachsuetts man and Everette Bannister, a close associate of Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Bannister was accused of taking money from the cartel to allow traffickers to use the island nation off Florida's shores as a way station for $1 billion in drug imports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartel Leaders Indicted for Assassinations | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

Bannister was charged in August 1985 with two counts of perjury for lying to the Royal Commission when he denied taking bribes from a drug trafficker. The charges, however, were dropped when the Bahamian attorney general refused to give the trafficker immunity from prosecution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartel Leaders Indicted for Assassinations | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

Several witnesses in the Lehder trial testified that they had made payoffs to high Bahamian officials, including Pindling, who has denied the allegations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartel Leaders Indicted for Assassinations | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

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