Word: montserrat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Luxembourg. If the bank were to delay, his Colombian client would kill him, Vives pleaded. The banker refused, and British authorities cooperating with the DEA froze the account. Not all countries were as helpful. U.S. agents said they tracked Rodriguez's money to the Cayman Islands, Spain and Montserrat, but local authorities said they could not cooperate, citing rigid bank-secrecy laws as an excuse...
From Guadeloupe to Montserrat to St. Croix and Puerto Rico, one of the fiercest storms of the decade leaves a path of destruction. Charleston bears the brunt of the hurricane in the U.S. before it turns inland and diminishes. -- A ruling on embryos in Tennessee may complicate the debate over abortion...
...slowing in the slightest, Hugo fell on Montserrat, an eleven-mile-wide British island of 12,000 residents. Tin roofs were ripped off houses and nearly every building sustained serious damage, leaving few inhabitants with either shelter or fresh water. The wooded mountains that had inspired visitors to call Montserrat the Emerald Isle turned brown as most of the green trees lost their tops. "It was paradise here," said Governor Christopher Turner, who placed the damage at $100 million. "Now we're back to the kerosene age and washing in the river." Ten residents died...
...Coast Guard sent cutters to St. Thomas topick up personnel and their families whose homeswere destroyed. It also was evacuating 200American medical students at Montserrat, a Britishcolony where Hugo damaged nearly 90 percent of thehomes...
Federal relief shipments laden with suppliesand rescue workers from Florida, South Carolina,West Virginia and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, went toPuerto Rico, while British and French forceshelped Montserrat and Guadeloupe...