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Early in 1995 billionaire foam-cup manufacturer Kenneth Dart moved from Michigan to Belize, reportedly to avoid U.S. income taxes, and moved his company and his family to Sarasota, Florida. Belize then asked the U.S. State Department if it could establish a consulate in Sarasota, probably to be run by Dart, who would thus be permitted to live in Florida with his family without paying U.S. taxes. In September the Washington Post reported that the State Department would probably deny the request.
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In September three mediums lured 1,500 people to an airfield near Sofia, Bulgaria, in a welcoming party for eight spaceships that were expected to land and help the country pay its foreign debt (about $13 billion). A half hour after the scheduled time for the landing, the mediums announced that warplanes in the adjacent area, the former Yugoslavia, had scared off the spaceships.
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