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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17Friends at the White HouseBy JANICE CASTRO
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- Why in the world did President Bush choose to hold his
- December 1989 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on board heaving
- ships off the wintry coast of Malta? After the world's most
- powerful duo endured the so-called seasick summit, the President
- tweaked his younger brother WILLIAM ("Bucky") BUSH for
- suggesting the stormy site. It turns out that Bucky, an
- international investment consultant, had business ties to firms
- that could have profited from the choice of a tiny nation trying
- to boost its tourism. He was, for example, a consultant for
- CIGA, an Italian hotel firm that was mulling construction of a
- new resort in Malta at the time. He was also involved in a
- French firm that was planning to sell restaurant equipment in
- Malta. Asked about the connections last week, William Bush
- referred the inquiry to the White House, which responded simply
- that Bucky "did not stand to benefit in any way from the holding
- of the summit in Malta."
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