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Come nightfall, Bermuda shorts are sometimes exchanged for evening gown and tux for a trip to the casinos. To encourage a steady stream of new faces-and new money-there is a three-day parking limit on the Stardust grounds. Few campers stay that long; there is always someplace else to go. For some, keeping on the move is what it is all about. Foster Root, a retired salesman, sold his house in New Jersey and took to the road with his wife. "We're camping 52 weeks a year," he says, "until we decide where to live...
...Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...
...both the theory of narcotics involvement and that of a personal vengeance. They fear that the shootings may nonetheless represent a defiant protest against the last vestiges of British colonialism. "There must have been a political motive," says one government official. "But it's really a symbolic protest. Bermuda is the oldest self-governing colony in the Western Hemisphere. It seems they're trying to knock the symbols out from under...
Compared with their black-bereted counterparts in the U.S., however, Bermuda's militants have little cause for complaint. In contrast to America's ghettoed cities, Bermuda is close to a paradise: there are no slums; there is, even today, no visible tension on the streets either by day or night. There is no official discrimination in employment, and blacks are represented in all enterprises on the island. In the legislature, both the majority and minority leaders are black...
Whether there is racial discrimination in Bermuda is debated often in Hamilton, but usually out of earshot of tourists. At the Hoppin' John Restaurant and Bar, where tourists often debate nothing more substantial than whether to order the Portuguese bean soup or the Bermuda fish chowder (both $1.25), locals at the bar try to convince themselves and others that Bermuda is completely tranquil. One white businessman, somewhat loose with liquor, tells a black employee that "for the last ten years the white man has bent over backwards to make Bermuda, black and white, work...