deported from the Island claimed yesterday American authorities on the base were "racist''.

Although breaking and entering and sexual assault charges were dropped against Mr. Kenneth Dozier in Magistrates' Court yesterday, USNAS authorities banned him from the base where he worked as a forklift operator with the Navy Exchange.

They are also having him deported from the Island and are seeking to find out from the US Attorney General's office in Washington, DC, whether the same charges can be brought against him in America.

Mr. Dozier told The Royal Gazette his wife was ordered to stay and fulfil her threeyear contract with NAS.

"I have a five-month-old son I have to leave behind and $10,000 in legal fees I have to pay -- (lawyer) Mr. Richard Hector is not cheap,'' he said. Mr.

Dozier claimed NAS authorities did not want to hear his side of the story because he is black.

"It is a racist base,'' he charged. "You should see what they do to black people there. They don't care about them.'' Mr. Dozier insisted he was completely innocent of the charges, which were brought against him earlier this year by his neighbours, whom he says are a white couple employed by NAS.

He said the woman claimed he broke into her St. George's condominium and jumped in her bed and performed a sexual act on her.

He said she claimed she thought it had been her husband who jumped into her bed until the man said he was "Ken''.

Mr. Dozier claimed the alleged incident never happened and the woman made it up.

He said she told the Crown she wanted to drop charges because she did not want the Bermuda Government to incur the expenses of two Americans in court.

Mr. Dozier said he was taking his case to the Navy magazine at headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and to the Washington Post .