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...years the FBI has pursued Vesco, lately investigating his possible links with drug smuggling in the Caribbean, but no indictments have been sought. The probe once stalled when the FBI wanted to set up a sting operation to catch Bahamian officials taking bribes. The CIA station chief in the Bahamas and U.S. Ambassador Lev Dobriansky opposed the plan, and it was scuttled, for fear that any such investigation might jeopardize negotiations with Pindling's government over the continued use of a U.S. submarine-testing base there...
Your article [Aug. 15] on the Police was fantastic. Sting, Stewart and Andy may be sex symbols to a lot of their fans, but they have the brains to make awesome music. Every Breath You Take and every song they make are perfect...
...dozen Transall military freighters and a C-135F aerial refueling plane, together with five fighter aircraft from Zaire. "Operation Manta," as the government of President Francis Mitterrand had code-named France's challenge to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's ambitions in Chad, was beginning to acquire some sting...
...founded in 1977 and christened by Stewart. (The name Police is a wise-guy reference to dad's line of work.) Married, one baby, one stepson. Summers: 40, and gets ragged about it. Loves Django Reinhardt, reggae, ska and photography. Divorced; likes to talk about his sex life. Sting: 31, born Gordon Matthew Sumner. Grew up in Wallsend, England. Bass player. Various accounts origin of nickname: ceaseless buzzing energy; onetime habit of wearing black-and-yellow striped sweaters. Discovered by Copeland playing a gig with "a couple of old jazzers" in a school classroom. Getting divorced (see Every Breath...
These fragments of a sometimes combative personality lead to a precarious seesaw act within the band. "I haven't much team spirit," Sting confesses. "Relationships in the band are difficult. We have large egos, large talents, large personalities." Laughs Copeland: "Sting can't dominate because he's outnumbered. With the Police, it's always two against one." Admits Summers: "We're too pussyfooted to hit each other. We haven't got down to physical blows yet. But it gets pretty tense sometimes...