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...long-delayed trial of fallen Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean, 59, finally opened last week in the U.S. court house in Los Angeles, 18 months after his dramatic arrest in that city in a Sheraton Hotel room. He is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of smuggled cocaine. The evidence: five hours of videotapes and 48 audio recordings made by a paid informant and by undercover agents from the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration...
...careful and heed the advice of the bellboys at the Sheraton El Salvador or the Camino Real in San Salvador, a fabulous spring or summer vacation is waiting for you. "I was down there in December, and I swear--if you didn't read the newspapers or listen to the radio, you'd never know there was a war going on," reports Gloria Malloy, a manager for TACA, the El Salvador an airline. "It was so peaceful in the city...
Once inside El Salvador, you'll find comfortable--and relatively inexpensive--places to stay. The biggest and best are the 213-room Sheraton El Salvador, at $65 for a mountain-view room and $61 for lower floors. Or you can mingle with the world press corps at the 237-room Western International Camino Real, which journalists have just about taken over...
...many trial delays was caused by the insistence of CBS-TV on broadcasting an FBI videotape of De Lorean's arrest at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina hotel near the Los Angeles airport on Oct. 19, 1982. The tape had been made available by the ubiquitous and unsavory Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine. In the film, De Lorean talks with agents posing as drug dealers, fondles the coke packets and says, "It's better than gold." A door opens and a man enters. "Hi John," the stranger says folksily. "I'm Jerry West from...
...restaurant meals, all consumed incognito (Sheraton refuses to pose fullface for the camera, to make it harder for restaurateurs to identify her and proffer extraordinary service), will help inform her next book, a New York City restaurant guide to be published early next year. The book, she says, will take "a different angle" from her definitive Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants. She is also collaborating with Comedian Alan King on a compendium of memoirs, recipes and restaurant anecdotes called Is Salami-and-Eggs Better Than Sex? The answer to that curious question...