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...quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified Billy: "I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different Government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in." He has endured, he said, ten separate investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...Lewis Nasife, president of Charter Crude Oil, responded to Billy's invitation and visited Carter's Buena Vista home. They talked oil-and big bucks. Charter at the time was getting about 125,000 bbl. of crude a day from Libya. Billy said he thought he could get the company up to an additional 100,000 bbl. If he did so, Carter wondered, what kind of broker's commission would Charter pay? The two men worked out a verbal agreement that was later confirmed in a short "Dear Billy" letter by Nasife. If Billy succeeded in providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...plans to work for the Libyans, but he could still make money from his contract with Charter. He will need every cent. In April, the Internal Revenue Service clamped a lien for back taxes on 38.6 acres that are part of the 58-acre site of his home in Buena Vista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...second warrant was for John Arthur Spenkelink, a moody loner who had been in and out of jail since childhood. Spenkelink's troubles began early; at twelve he discovered the body of his alcoholic father, who had committed suicide in the front seat of his truck in Buena Park, Calif. Two years later, Spenkelink was arrested for the first time, for driving a stolen car. There followed arrests for disturbing the peace, for burglary and for armed robbery. Stints in reform schools were to no avail. When he married briefly at 18, his probation officer could find only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At Issue: Crime and Punishment | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Dick Scar Buena Vista, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1978 | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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