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Starting in 1979 with a $70,000 deposit at Credit Suisse Ltd. in the Bahamas, Wilkis conducted some 50 trades using inside information, according to the Government. Along the way, he transferred assets to other banks in the Cayman Islands, controlling the money through still more institutions in Liberia and the Bahamas and using the code name Mr. Blake. Later, under the name of Alan Darby, Wilkis talked with Levine, who called himself Mike Schwartz, about various insider-trading opportunities. Sokolow, who did not know Wilkis, began in 1981 to supply Levine with information about the pending actions of Shearson...
When Wilson returned to the U.S. to enroll in the Medical School in the fall of 1983 after two years of Peace Corps work in Liberia, she found that Harvard did not think the social problem of community health care was its worry...
...unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation that had expressed interest in playing host, had second thoughts and took itself out of the running last week. Meanwhile, warned the new Haitian governing council, any country that accepts the Duvaliers should be prepared to cooperate with an investigation into the family's finances. The council...
Most shipowners around the world now avoid the steep costs of union wages and government regulations at home by registering their fleets with developing countries, notably Liberia, Cyprus and Panama. The latest popular flag belongs to a tiny South Pacific island group, Vanuatu, which charges a bargain- basement registration fee of $14,460, even lower than Liberia's $21,005. Vanuatu's fleet now numbers 100 ships...
...English by studying videotapes of President Reagan's speeches. The Administration had hoped it could persuade Doe, who seized power five years ago, to emulate the U.S. in other ways as well. Officials in Washington threatened to withhold U.S. aid if he did not hold free and fair elections. Liberia, founded 138 years ago by freed U.S. slaves, receives some $85 million a year from...