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Present at the divisive Marlborough House summit, in addition to Gandhi and Kaunda, were Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada, Robert Hawke of Australia, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Sir Lynden Pindling of the Bahamas. On the second day of the meeting, Thatcher dropped her opposition to a proposed European Community ban on South African coal, steel and iron, and said she would accept "voluntary" restrictions on new British investment and the promotion of South African tourism. For the other six leaders present, this was nowhere near enough. Together they endorsed a set of sanctions proposed at a previous Commonwealth...
...words of one disheartened religious leader in Barbados, politicians "see the glint of gold and not the blood dripping from this accursed money." In the Bahamas, an inquiry by a three-member panel implicated two Cabinet members in drug smuggling and nearly toppled the administration of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Commented the Miami Herald in an editorial: "The panel portrays a country haunted by cocaine abuse, a police force riddled with corruption, lawyers perverted by greed and a government tainted by widespread influence peddling...
...ether, acetone and hydrochloric acid, enough to process eight tons of cocaine; DEA officials speculate that influential Paraguayans might be involved in drug trafficking. Cocaine arrests in Trinidad soared to 150 in 1983 from three in 1978. In the Bahamas, three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling resigned from their posts and two others were fired just before the release of a Royal Commission report that portrayed a government riddled with cocaine corruption...
...focus of this interest is a Royal Commission investigating charges that top government officials in the Bahamas have been involved in drug trafficking and bribery. Prime Minister Lynden Pindling called for the three-man panel last September after an NBC broadcast alleged that a U.S. Justice Department report had linked Pindling and one of his ministers to $100,000-a-month payments from drug traffickers. But any hope Pindling had that the inquiry would eliminate the rumors quickly backfired. At first testimony centered on lower-echelon civil servants: customs officials and police officers who were accused of accepting bribes...
...report said U.S. investigators believe that Vesco's operatives set up business at Norman's Cay. Vesco allegedly paid about $100,000 a month to Bahamian officials, including the Prime Minister, Sir Lynden Pindling...