Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Union and management negotiators did their best to give the proposed contract an optimistic send-off at a press conference in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel. Said Nicholas Camicia, chief negotiator for the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association: "We think we have a package that will be very good for the union, very good for the country and [will] get our mines back to work." Added U.M.W. President Arnold Miller: "It's a pretty good contract...
While in the Citrus State, the linksters will be staying in St. Augustine where they will play their daily eighteen over the Ponce de Leon Golf Club. On the way back, the team will detour through South Carolina, where it will play at Hilton Head Island and in Charlestown against the Baptist College of Charlestown...
...assassination and climaxed in a massacre. The murder victim: Youssef Sebai, 60, author, chairman-editor of Egypt's semiofficial daily newspaper al-Ahram and a close friend of Anwar Sadat's. Sebai's slaying, by two Palestinian gunmen in the lobby of Nicosia's Cyprus Hilton, made him the first victim of Sadafs peace initiative toward Israel. But what infuriated Egyptians even more was that a commando expedition dispatched to capture Sebai's killers and free their eleven Arab hostages ended in disaster. Last week the commandos were ambushed by Cypriot national guardsmen. Fifteen...
Actually, the assassins were not Arafat's people; they were members of a tiny renegade movement, which Arafat himself had disowned. A fortnight ago, the two men checked into the Hilton ostensibly to attend a meeting of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, chaired by Sebai. They were searching, as it turned out, for a way to hit Sebai. As one of the prominent Egyptians who had traveled with Sadat to Jerusalem last November, Sebai had been condemned as a traitor by Arab rejectionists. The moment came unexpectedly. Spotting Sebai in the hotel lobby, the Palestinians quickly...
Confronted with admirers and new-found followers of his own, Spinks quickly retreated to a room rented under a different name in the Las Vegas Hilton. In the tumult of victory, all the new champion could think of was that he'd like to take a trip somewhere: "Maybe a cruise. Yeah, a cruise. I'd like to go to England...