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Contact convention and visitors bureaus to obtain hotel information and city maps. When researching hotels, try to find those within your budget that are in walking distance of the stadiums. Some hotel chains will even offer packages that include accommodations and baseball tickets. Concierges can assist in obtaining tickets, and some can even help you get behind-the-scenes stadium tours, says Laura Bates, vice president of resorts and leisure travel for Marriott International. An insider's tip from Engel: contact your team's office to find out at which hotels the team stays in various cities. "You may catch...
...able to creep within 100 ft. of their camp. Hoping to overwhelm the kidnappers with a surprise attack, they started firing. Their goal: to free the three hostages--a prize that over and over had eluded the Philippine army and the 1,200 American advisers sent in January to assist the local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through...
...reassess its mission in the Philippines. Now that there no longer are American hostages, there is less reason for military advisers to be on the ground. But they were sent as part of President Bush's war on terror, not only to help free the Burnhams but also to assist in Manila's pursuit of kidnapping gangs like Abu Sayyaf and fundamentalist Muslim separatist groups with links to al-Qaeda's web of terror. Washington was in no mood to second-guess the Philippine army's efforts. "The Burnhams have not been well, and they lived in captivity a long...
...spoke with understood American civil law? No. Did I come away believing that every Curial official that we met with had a much clearer appreciation of the severity of this crisis? Yes. Did I come away with the sense that the Pope and his officers were willing to assist us and support us in the pastoral initiatives that we would take? Yes. Did they give us a blank check? No ... The defining voice in Dallas for me is what John Paul II said to us in Rome: There is no place in the clergy or religious life for those...
...reassess its mission in the Philippines. Now that there no longer are American hostages, there is less reason for military advisers to be on the ground. But they were sent as part of President Bush's war on terror, not only to help free the Burnhams but also to assist in Manila's pursuit of kidnapping gangs like Abu Sayyaf and fundamentalist Muslim separatist groups with links to al-Qaeda's web of terror. Washington was in no mood to second-guess the Philippine army's efforts. "The Burnhams have not been well, and they lived in captivity a long...