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...White House announced that Vice President Dan Quayle was cutting back the itinerary for his upcoming trip through the region because leaders in Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica found it "inconvenient" to receive him. Quayle will confine his travels, scheduled for Jan. 27 to 29, to Honduras, Panama and Jamaica. Conceded a senior White House official: "We were hoping for a grander tour than this...
...lived in Jamaica for seven years as a child. After I left in 1984, I knew I would return frequently, for this was home. I did return, in the summer of 1986, to spend a few weeks there with my friend Zac, relaxing before my freshman year in college. We spent most of the time in Kingston, visiting old friends and haunts. In the last week of August, we travelled to Ocho Rios, on the north coast, to feel the sand on our backs and hear the waves for the last time in many months. We checked into a large...
After three nights, we ran out of money. We checked out, planning to return to Kingston that day. But days in Jamaica are unhurried, and we missed the last bus. 2:00 am found us on the beach, resolved to brave the sand-flies as penance for our laziness. As we laid out our towels on the sand, something jingled. It was the key to the hotel room which we had forgotten to drop...
...island's siren song is simple and successful: "Come back to Jamaica," the slogan goes. But the way in which the giant U.S. ad agency Young & Rubicam landed the Caribbean country's business is a tale of bribery and racketeering, according to a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn. Last week the panel indicted the ad agency on charges that it paid about $900,000 in kickbacks between 1981 and 1986 to win and keep the Jamaica Tourist Board's account...
...jury charges that Y&R hired Arnold Foote Jr., a Jamaican advertising consultant who the Justice Department contends was also a government official. He allegedly passed along money to Eric Anthony Abrahams, Jamaica's Tourism Minister from 1980 to 1984. Y&R is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids the bribing of foreign officials. The agency denies any wrongdoing...