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Chanting "Death squad president, go home now!" approximately 35 demonstrators from the Harvard Committee on Central America (COCA) and the Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) marched for more than an hour in front of the Marriott Hotel in Kendall Sqaure...
...initial phases of Operation Just Cause went off as planned. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, guests at Panama City's ritzy Marriott Caesar Park Hotel were awakened by sporadic shooting. A team of Navy SEALs (sea, air and & land capability) rushed the nearby private Paitilla Airport, where Noriega kept a potential getaway Learjet. In a brief but vicious firefight the SEALs overwhelmed guards, secured the landing strip and destroyed the aircraft. But four SEALs were killed, perhaps the earliest casualties of the conflict. Other SEALS died while disabling boats Noriega could have used to make an escape...
...forces then focused on the plight of hostages who had been seized by Noriega's men. At the Marriott a foreign journalist was approached at about 12:25 a.m. Wednesday by three gunmen in ski masks and civilian clothes. They ordered her to join eleven other guests, including seven Americans being held hostage in the hotel by thugs toting AK-47s. They were marched into a van, driven to a house and held in a kitchen for three hours. "You're bombing our children; you're bombing our people," one told the Americans. "If we were in another country...
...story glass tower rises out of Warsaw's downtown like an intruder from another world. But it is a welcome one. The $65 million Warsaw Marriott, which is scheduled to open this week with a bash for 1,000 guests, will be the first major Western-operated hotel in Poland. Built in a joint venture with the Polish airline LOT and an Austrian construction company, the structure has 520 hotel rooms and office space for businesses. Amenities include a shopping mall, a swimming pool and satellite TV in every room...
...room to $1,500 for the presidential suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right direction...