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Article: Drug Trade Big Issue In Bahamian Vote
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- The Washington Post
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- June 19, 1987
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NASSAU, Bahamas, June 18
For the first time since he took office a generation ago, Prime
Minister Lynden O. Pindling faces an election Friday that threatens
his tenure and may be a turning point in this island nation's growing
reputation as a safe haven for drug traffickers and a breeding ground
for high-level corruption.
Pindling, a lawyer, has lost none of the political savvy that
enabled him to oust a minority white government 20 years ago and lead
the Bahamas to independence in 1973.
But the prime minister and his ruling Progressive Liberal Party
have been stung for three years by official and press reports linking
government officials with money from drug running, estimated to be
the ...