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Noriega showed his defiance throughout the week. Hours after his troops arrested and beat protesters at a Panama City rally, soldiers and police burst into the lobby of the Marriott Caesar Park Hotel and seized 20 opposition leaders, who had scheduled a news conference, and twelve foreign journalists, including five Americans. Many were beaten as they were led away. Ignoring Roman Catholic Church leaders who urged him to resign, Noriega later told a conference of delegates from Latin American and Caribbean countries that he and the region were victims of U.S. aggression...
...connection with a Northwest flight. Since the carriers have similar arrangements with hotel chains, frequent flyers can put together a deluxe vacation package. Example: logging 75,000 miles on Eastern or Continental wins two round-trip tickets to Europe or South America, three free nights in a Marriott hotel and a free rental car from Hertz for three days...
...planned buildings are of varying heights (29, 37, 49 and 56 stories) but otherwise identical: grand colonnades, red and pink granite, glass mansard roofs. These will be hulking structures, with more than twice the square footage of the area's current most egregious behemoth: John Portman's 50-story Marriott Marquis hotel a few blocks up Broadway...
...your left" he announced, "is the Labatt's plant. Makes the best beer in Canada. On your right, notice the Marriott hotel. A fine example of modern architecture...
Chicago was chockablock with business seminars that week. Next door at the Marriott, muscular types in gold chains and shorts were studying health-club management. Downtown, engineers laid out a grand for four days of "Pneumatic Conveying for Bulk Solids." A company called the 1st Seminar Service lists 100,000 such seminars annually around the country. By its estimate, corporations send 8 million people a year for outside training, and think it is worth paying about $4 billion. The rustling sound of flip charts in action runs like a breeze through the cornfields from coast to coast...