Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fewer Americans are traveling abroad these days. The State Department reports that passport applications were down 16% in January from last year. So far this winter, Spain's Costa del Sol has had 50,000 fewer visitors than expected. Only 30% of the rooms at the Rome Hilton were filled last month, against 45% the January before, and Hertz auto rentals in the Eternal City are off nearly...
...defendants -shouted insults at the judge and militant denunciations of the whole U.S. judicial system. Both defendants were periodically banished from the courtroom and listened to the proceedings over loudspeakers from adjacent rooms. Yet in a U.S. district court in New York last week, Joanne Chesimard, 26, and Fred Hilton, 20, reputed members of the radical, gun-toting Black Liberation Army, were acquitted of charges that they and two companions had robbed a Bronx bank in September 1972. The jury verdict ended their second trial on the charges, after the first resulted in a hung jury...
...extremists are not out of the woods. Mrs. Chesimard remained jailed on charges of murdering a New Jersey state trooper in a Shootout in May 1973; she is also accused of robbing another bank, in Queens, in 1971. Hilton has been accused of attempted murder in the shooting of two Housing Authority policemen in 1973. The Black Liberation Army is estimated to have at most 25 to 30 members. Several have been killed or captured in police shootouts, and the rest are under heavy surveillance...
...history, the Brussels meeting did do something-how much is still in question-to restore the dangerously frayed lines of communication across the Atlantic. Jobert and Kissinger, who seem to have a genuine liking for each other outside the conference room, met privately in Kissinger's 16th floor Hilton suite and emerged smiling and joking. "Tout va bien [All goes well]," Jobert told reporters. Indeed, at the weekend summit meeting of Common Market chiefs of state in Copenhagen, Kissinger's visit seemed to have a lingering effect. Originally called as almost a show of defiance against the American...
...airport serving the Egyptian capital was near the combat zone. But the midnight landing came off without a hitch, and Kissinger was engulfed in an excited crush of photographers. Security officers finally jammed him into a waiting limousine and whisked him to the palatial presidential suite at the Nile Hilton...