Word: marriotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toyed with their Filet de Sole au Yalu River. They had survived bowls of kimchi, the mouth-searing concoction of pickled cabbage, hot peppers and garlic that is Korea's national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades ago when the United Nations forces were trying to hold the Pusan...
About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
Among the first suspects to be questioned by police in Fort Wayne was an unidentified white man who had made abusive comments about Jordan at the Marriott bar the night of the shooting. Police officials quickly concluded, however, that the man had nothing to do with the case. Next, police sought to question Jon Thompson Douglas, 40, a welder from Grabill, a small town about ten miles northeast of Fort Wayne. The morning after Jordan was shot, Allen County deputy sheriffs arrested Douglas for operating a motorcycle while drunk and confiscated three unloaded rifles, including a Remington .30-06, that...
...received no hint that he might be the target of violence in Fort Wayne. He had gone there to be the guest of honor at a $17.50-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the local Urban League. He arrived Wednesday afternoon, checked into ground-floor Room 180 at the Marriott and held a half-hour press conference at which he described Carter's presidency as "an Administration of promises made and promises unkept...
...handsome, two-story white frame house on tree-lined Lafayette Esplanade in a racially mixed neighborhood in south central Fort Wayne. For two hours or so, Coleman told police, they drank coffee and chatted. Shortly after 2 a.m., Coleman drove Jordan back to the Marriott, where he was gunned down...