Word: refurbishment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local business group, find other hotel people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt and faces...
Sweeping a Flood. In an address last week before a national conference on the judiciary at Williamsburg, Va., the President elaborated that theme. In restrained tones, Richard Nixon cast the weight of his office behind the gathering campaign to reform and refurbish a vast judicial system that too often is itself an agent of injustice. It was a curious if temporary blurring of the traditional separation of powers-and a measure of the urgency of the problem-that not only Mitchell but also Chief Justice Warren Burger read the President's speech in advance and made suggestions...
...Franco's tight leash, the handsome Borbón, accompanied by his pretty, Greek-born wife Princess Sophia, impressed official Washington as conscientious and thoroughly charming. Officially, the aim of the trip was to return President Nixon's October visit to Madrid. The real motive was to refurbish Spain's tarnished image in the wake of the Burgos trials. Sending Franco himself certainly would not have accomplished that. There would have been demonstrations wherever he went...
...Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish the Hashemite image. He volunteered the family's services to the British in their World War 1 battles with the Ottoman empire, which was allied with Germany. In return, the Hashemites were to receive large swatches of territory, including Syria...
...intelligence community describes the recent activity as "wriggles" in Cuba. The wriggles appear to date from Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's trip to Havana last fall and a return visit to Moscow by Fidel Castro's brother Raul last spring. The Soviets agreed to refurbish the Cuban military with everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron...