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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of demonstrators protesting the Chilean junta yesterday interrupted the closing meeting of the Inter-American Press Association's Annual Conference (IAPA) at the ITT-owned Sheraton Boston Hotel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Junta Protesters Disrupt Newspaper Owners' Meeting | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

Carrying placards reading "U.S. out of Chile; Fascists out of Sheraton," and "No peace; No honor; Kissinger is the junta's father," NICH members marched for about 30 minutes in front of the Prudential Center before entering the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Junta Protesters Disrupt Newspaper Owners' Meeting | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

Officials for the Sheraton-Park defended the Vice President's rent discount as routine 1br national celebrities whose residence at the hotel would enhance its reputation and attract more business. (Others who got similar discounts, according to the hotel, included Hostess Perle Mesta, television's Lawrence Spivak, former Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien, former Treasury Secretary John Connally and former Chief Justice Earl Warren.) Rash said his gifts were "strictly on a personal, family, nonpolitical basis." Neither Dundore nor Jones would comment. Agnew's press secretary, J. Marsh Thomson, said he would not comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Agnew's Case Goes to the Grand Jury | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...comment on a flurry of reports that he has received free food and liquor, a reduction in the rent of his apartment, and even cash from friends. First, CBS-TV reported that the Agnews received a special "celebrity" rate on the apartment they formerly occupied in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, owned by a subsidiary of ITT. (It turned out that they paid between $850 and $900 a month on an apartment that normally rents for $1,900.) Then the New York Times reported that the Agnews regularly got free food from Joseph H. Rash, vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Agnew's Case Goes to the Grand Jury | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...Carrera-Sheraton Hotel, which overlooks the Presidential Palace, is a bulky brown 17-story building with what at least one travel brochure optimistically describes as "tastefully decorated rooms." At the height of the fighting on Tuesday, Carrera Manager Luis Miguel ("Mike") Gallegos−upon whose thin breast every one of last week's guests would like to hang a medal−evacuated his 270 charges and 200 employees to the cavernous second basement. It took on the atmosphere of a London tube stop during the blitz, but with a notably international flavor. A French journalist challenged all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Coup: The View from the Carrera | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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