As the plane was touching down in Nassau, flames were spotted near the lefthand engine. All 93 on board escaped safely.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)LEAD: A Government witness in the drug trial of a reputed leader in Colombian cocaine trafficking testified Tuesday that he had been told the defendant paid $88,000 a month in protection money to Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)In 1988, eight Democratic members of Congress formed a company to buy a tiny island in the Bahamas — an old pirates’ lair with pink beaches and palm trees — with the idea of turning it into a resort. One of them was Matthew F. McHugh, the upstate New York Representative who is now leading the ethics committee investigation of the House bank affair. Two of the others were Robert J. Mrazek of Long Island and Edward F. Feighan of Ohio, who figure prominently in that affair and who are now appeal…
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)The Commonwealth conference here, now in its second day, has developed into a lobbying session on South Africa, with Britain trying to persuade most of the other members that discussion is likely to be more effective than sanctions in eliminating apartheid Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher avoided the subject of South Africa when she opened today’s closed-door meeting with a wide-ranging speech on world issues. But she had previously spent 45 minutes talking mainly about South Africa with Prime …
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)The Federal Centers for Disease Control say that patients who received blood-derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to a virus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The patients at the clinic, the Immunology Researching Center Ltd. in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, were also exposed to hepatitis, the United States agency said in a statement Tuesday. The clinic was ordered closed July 17 by the Bahamian Health Ministry.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Transportation Department figures show discount carriers flew 20 percent more seats in May than four year earlier, while network airlines capacity was down 16 percent; says average air fares for 1,000-mile trip declined to $116 from $147 over period; Southwest Airlines had 59 percent share of low-cost market in May, followed by America West with 12 percent and Air Tran with 8 percent; propeller-driven airplane is rapidly becoming scarce on commercial flights; flights by turboprop and piston-eng…
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Bahamas’ governing party warns Robert F Kennedy Jr, a lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council, to stay out of local dispute over luxury housing development in historic Clifton Cay
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Chief Warrant Officers David E Guido and Daniel P Riddell and Sgt William E Westgate are charged with involuntary manslaughter for taking Guido’s wife, Pam, and Riddell’s wife, Rebecca, for unauthorized ride on their Army helicopter, which crashed July 6 on Grand Exuma Island, Bahamas; both women were killed and three men seriously hurt in crash
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)A cache of emeralds, gold and silver found off Bimini in the Bahamas has raised the hopes of treasure hunters that they have finally located a Spanish galleon said to have sunk with a huge cargo of gold and silver coins more than 200 years ago. In an interview published today in The Miami Herald, Rick Meyer, who has led a five-year, $3 million search for the galleon Santiago el Grande, said: “It all matches up — the carbon dating, the size of the ship, the maps from the archives. There’s no wa…
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)US State Department clears Orlando Hernandez, one of best pitchers ever on Cuban national baseball team, Alberto Hernandez, another baseball player who is no relation to Orlando, and Noris Bosch, who Orlando Hernandez says is his girlfriend, to enter US; Orlando Hernandez and seven companions defected Cuba in small boat the day after Christmas; after being rescued by US Coast Guard on Dec 30, they were taken to Freeport and placed in custody of Bahamanian Government; they were later ferried to …
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