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DIED. SIR ERIC GAIRY, 75, brutal and bizarre Premier of Grenada from 1967 to 1979; in Grand Anse, Grenada. A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice. He terrorized his opponents with his henchmen, the Mongoose Gang; traveled to the U.N. to expound on UFOs; and once visited London to judge a Miss World contest (the winner, no surprise, was Miss Grenada...
...malicious destruction of $750,000 worth of rare books from Harvard libraries. On Apr. 17, Torres is arraigned on 15 additional counts of larceny, receiving stolen property and destroying library materials. Torres allegedly cut out the pages of some of the books and sold others to antique dealers in Grenada, Spain...
...plans to run for the U.S. Senate in 1998--has taken the fight a step further, contending that Global Casino's operators broke the law by letting a Missouri citizen wager on their site, even though the computers that take the bets are on the Caribbean island of Grenada. No dice, says Lawrence Hirsch, general counsel for I.G.C. "There is no law on the books anyplace," he says flatly, "that prohibits us from doing what...
Before Torres' arrest, one of the stolen books was allegedly sold for $2,400 in Grenada and then allegedly re-sold for $4,800 in London...
Mederos then contacted INTERPOL, an international policing system, which alerted Grenada police to retrieve the shipment...