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title, sensu the Windjammer, is ‘food and beverage manager’), complains about a flamboyantfriend being the worst possible choice of a front man. He was getting sloppy with his moneydrops, forgetting precautions. You want a straight man for a front, DeNire explains, not somecrazy guy.Articles from The National, 20 th and 22 nd July, 2005, respectively:Well before the South Seas plant broke ground at the town harbour, Sir Hugo Berghuser hadestablished himself in the province by purchasing the renowned Windjammer Hotel. That is, heand an unnamed business collective purchased a majority interest in it from the provincialgovernment. Before long he had converted the town’s premier tourist accomodation from anartifact-filled refuge into a tacky bar with fiber-board walls, drop ceilings and soft-porn posterson the wall. Few townspeople are convinced by the argument that Berghuser is in Wewak toserve tourism, unless Asian timber and fishing workers constitute a tourism sector. But quiteapart from that, and apart from questions of Windjammer ownership, the issue remains whetheror not Sir Hugo’s past business ventures can recommend him to the province at all.The Barnett Inquiry's 6000-page report exposed a forest industry riddled with corruption, fraudand incompetence at all levels. Indeed, the forestry sector was revealed to have a history offinancial, environmental and social misconduct throughout the 1980’s from which it’s escapedwith relative impunity. In Barnett's words, "There is a fog which is casting its cloud overforestry in this country. It is a mixture of meandering intellectual neglect, bureaucraticinefficiency and lack of honest political commitment." (Barnett. T.E. 1989a. Report of the38