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...Real estate (property in Baltimore County, Md., and equity in a condominium in St. Croix, Virgin Islands), $29,000. The St. Croix apartment is valued at $49,000, but has a $35,000 mortgage...
...island culture with a history of near complete and happy integration going back to the arrival of Danish colonizers nearly 300 years ago. Never in memory was it a problem for blacks and whites to sit at the same restaurant table or drink at the same bar. But St. Croix's first all-white bar has sprung up as a sanctuary in Christiansted. Architect Frank Prince recently took his wife to a place they used to go to drink and was immediately accosted by a black friend who said: "Frank, get your drink and travel. I'll cover...
...Virgins have as tight gun-control enforcement as practically any place in the U.S., but the gun population has soared in the last two years. Says Attorney General Ronald Tonkin: "I don't think there is an unarmed house in St. Croix...
...continentals claim that a large part of the problem can be traced to lax courts and a poor police force, and they seem to have a point. Says Tonkin: "There are 60 to 100 real troublemakers; they're mostly on St. Croix, and we know who they are." Yet virtually nothing is done about them. Of 933 misdemeanor cases brought to trial on St. Croix last year, only 33 resulted in jail sentences. All five of the black youths charged with the massacre at Laurance and David Rockefeller's Fountain Valley Golf Course had had previous arrests...
Sidney Lee, real estate investor and president of the St. Croix Rotary Club, believes that the murders will lead to a tightening of police and law enforcement. "I'd say things are safer now. I advise all my friends who call from the States to come anyway...