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...boom area of the Bahamas is in serious trouble. In Freeport, the center of development for companies as diverse as U.S. Steel and Holiday Inns, streets are dotted with "for sale" signs, shuttered shops and interrupted construction projects. Tourist spending, the lifeblood of the island, will fall by an estimated 10% in 1970. New investment is at a virtual standstill, and the gaming casinos are hard up for business. The U.S. economic slowdown contributed to the drop-but the problem is not so much the decline of dollar power as the rise of black power...
Alien Anomaly. Freeport is caught up in a bitter, smoldering dispute between its predominantly white developers and the Bahamas' first black government, located 130 miles away in Nassau. For tourists, the feud all too often translates into rude or grudging service from hotel and restaurant employees. "All the visitor wants is a quiet vacation on the beach with a drink in his hand," a top hotel executive told TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood. "Instead, he finds himself in on a black power situation." Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling admits that tourist receptions in the Bahamas are less friendly than they...
Although more than 100 foreign firms have signed investment contracts since the beginning of 1967-including such U.S. firms as Alcoa, Freeport Sulphur, Goodyear Rubber and ITT-others have been frightened...
...descendants of immigrants who came from as far away as Genoa, Malta, Arab countries and India-hold an anachronistic loyalty to Britain. Two years ago, they voted 12,138 to 44 in favor of staying British, and posters still enjoin: KEEP GIBRALTAR TIDY-KEEP IT BRITISH. Gibraltar has virtual freeport status, and its tidy bazaar economy caters to an average 2,200 tourists a day. Britain has committed a million pounds sterling to building a water-distillation plant and housing for married servicemen...
Floating Hospital. A second day in a second port (the Bahamian Las Vegas, Freeport) imparts a healthy glow to the passengers for the homeward cruise. By now, the romances that are to be are under way, while the unmatched and the uninterested have found other outlets for their energies. A few eccentrics begin to make their presence known. One woman writes a note to the cruise director: "There is a group of men and women aboard ship," she begins, "who are using fictitious names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united...