The State - News from Aug. 29, 1988

Legal efforts have been abandoned to secure even partial refunds for nearly 2,000 people, including hundreds of Californians, who paid for canceled Central American and Mediterranean voyages on the Galaxy cruise liner operated by a San Antonio travel firm whose principals disappeared last winter, the Texas attorney general’s office said. In a memo sent to all complainants, the office said that prior liens exist against the ship, which is now in Cyprus, and that there is no prospect of recovering any of at least $2.3 million in lost cruise payments. “There is nothing more we can do now except to respectfully offer all victims our sincerest sympathy for these losses,” Assistant Atty Gen. Raul Noriega wrote.