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Seven days before the indictment was handed down, Hughes and a party of ten roared out of London, where he had lived at the Inn on the Park for nearly a year, and flew by private jet to Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. Arriving at 4 a.m., the entourage moved into four top-floor suites of the Xanadu Princess Hotel. Among its attractions is that it is in a country that recently refused to extradite Financier Robert Vesco to the U.S. to stand trial on an indictment for using telegraph services to carry out a fraud-one of the violations...
Phase 2 of Obolensky's plan was to develop a tournament system. There are now about a dozen a year held in such resorts as St. Martin, Monte Carlo and Cannes. The first such tourney, held in 1964 in Freeport, offered only about $40 in prize money and attracted only a handful of players. In contrast, 270 competitors turned out for the Las Vegas tourney this year...
...FREEPORT, Texas--Two heavily armed black men who hijacked a jetliner over New York City Wednesday night released three hostage stewardesses from the stranded plane Thursday at a Texas commuter airstrip and surrendered...
Eight FBI agents armed with high-powered rifles surrounded the jetliner at the Freeport airstrip, as Sheriff Robert Gladney and state and local police sealed off the area for the radius of a mile...
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