Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a few hours, New Year's Eve festivities were to begin at the Dupont Plaza in San Juan. The hotel's 423 rooms were filled, and every table in the penthouse restaurant had been reserved. It would be, predicted Howard Puig, assistant manager of the hotel's disco, "the night of the year." On the mezzanine, gamblers were already crowding into the posh casino. Through the large picture windows they could see the pounding surf and a clear blue afternoon sky that seemed to bode well. As bettors hunched forward for yet another round of blackjack and croupiers gave...
...indeed arson was involved. Though he acknowledged there had been tensions between union workers and the hotel, that was putting it mildly: since late December, the union had been airing spots on local radio stations urging people to stay away from the Dupont Plaza on New Year's Eve. Cadiz explained that the ads referred merely to a possible curtailment in services at the hotel. He also said that after the ballroom meeting ended, he remained confident that an agreement would be reached by midnight...
There was something distinctly odd about Chancellor Helmut Kohl's New Year's Eve speech on the publicly owned ARD television network. For a start, Kohl said he was looking forward to tax reforms, when in fact they had been in effect for a year. And why, at the end of his ten-minute address, did Kohl wish his countrymen a "peaceful and happy...
...announce a complicated new program on a holiday. If you choose your holidays wisely, maybe pick one that follows a holi-night like New Year's Eve, chances are newspaper staffs, already working on holiday schedule and reeling from the previous night's revelry, won't be their usual analytical selves...
Against this landscape of unremitting horror, one bright spot marked the holiday season. As darkness fell on another grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...