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  • Snowstorm over Key West

    Solares Hill (Key West, Fla.) runs series on the prevalence of crack cocaine in Key West; how it gets there, who uses it, what it is like; presents argument for legalizing all drugs, November 1986-October 1987.

    Tags: FL Key West Kaiser crack cocaine drug smuggling

    By Frank Kaiser

    Solares Hill (Key West, Fla.)

    1987

  • No title (id: 4470)

    Solares Hill (Key West, Fla.) reports on the Key West Development Agency, which gave a controversial 99-year lease to a development company for millions of dollars a year less than the waterfront property was valued at, October 1985-May 1986.

    Tags: FL

    By None

    Solares Hill (Key West, Fla.)

    1986

  • Solar-power tax break lured investors to buy shady deal, IRS says

    Wall Street Journal article on a California solar energy corporation being sued by the Justice Department for fraud finds the difference between fraudulent deception and technical failure a fine distinction; investors claim they were bilked but company says it had in good faith sought venture capital for an idea that happened to fail, June 9, 1986.

    Tags: solar power; Ernest Lampert; United Energy Corp.

    By Ken Wells

    Wall Street Journal (New York)

    1986