Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to convert mathematical principles into public policy. He's got all the ivory-tower abilities, but he applies them to practical problems," Chalmers said...
...lobby. The guerrillas probably did not know that among the guests were the Green Berets and Joao Baena Soares, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who was trying to work out a cease-fire. As the rebels took up residence in the Sheraton's VIP Tower, Salvadoran commandos hurriedly escorted Soares out of the hotel and drove him away in an armored car. The Green Berets were not so fortunate. Armed with M-16 rifles and grenade launchers, they barricaded themselves behind furniture and waited out the siege. "We're here against our will because...
...plane took off from Bogota's El Dorado International Airport at 7:15 a.m., and Ossa told the tower at 7:18 a.m. that everything was normal, Duarte told The Associated Press. It crashed shortly afterward...
Instead, it appeared a standoff was continuing--and would continue through the night--inside the El Salvador Sheraton Hotel's VIP Tower, more than 17 hours after rebels surprised the government with their assault in an upper-class neighborhood of this capital...
Earlier yesterday, the guerrillas claimed they had captured four U.S. military advisors. But information from the occupied section of the tower indicated that the heavily armed Americans were barricaded in one or two rooms and controlled the fourth floor hallway, only about 20 yards from where the guerillas were on the third and fifth floors...