Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ample funds now available, the FBI scam grew ever more elaborate. A swarthy agent, still unidentified, was picked to play the fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety...
...level of action. He showed up last March at the Corsair, now docked in Delray Beach, Fla., to meet the legendary sheik Kambir Abdul Rahman face to face. This time he had with him New Jersey's four-term Democratic Senator, Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60. Meeting in the yacht's salon, the visitors spoke to the sheik through an interpreter, a dark-complexioned agent who conveyed their words to the sheik in something approximating Arabic. Nodding and smiling under his burnoose, the sheik, who claimed to speak little English, managed to express his uncomplicated desires: he wanted...
...still wonder whether John Kennedy would have been so agreeable when the Berlin Wall went up in 1961 if he had not been cruising on the yacht Marlin in Cape Cod waters. We also can ask ourselves if today's history might have been different had Carter been in the White House rather than aboard the Delta Queen churning down the Mississippi River when the Government began to get alarmed about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. In the Oval Office men seem to pause a second or two longer in their deliberations. If Carter had muted U.S. indignation...
Like tonight. I'll leave the office, be driven from Manhattan to Long Island, dictate to a secretary all the way out, have dinner with my wife for 90 minutes at the yacht club, then work all the way back to Manhattan, go to my apartment, and work over sales charts and company books until 1 a.m. Tomorrow, I'll be back in the office at 7:50 in the morning and go into a budget meeting at 8:20. I give 8% of my time to charity. I work with Cardinal Cooke; I raised about...
...indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current of any strength. That interpretation concurs with what Ralph Martin, racing secretary of the local yacht club for 40 years, told TIME a few weeks after the accident. He said that winter storms in 1968-69 had so narrowed the opening in the sand bar as to reduce drastically the strength of the tide flowing into the bay and inner harbor. Said...