New Marriott Hotel opens
SLP2003041608- ST. LOUIS, April 16 (UPI) -- J.W. Marriott, Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, makes remarks to the crowds during the opening of the new Renaissance Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis on April 16, 2003. The 918-room hotel, the largest in St. Louis, is the cornerstone of the $265 million convention center hotel complex. jg/bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI
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HOUSTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Former President George H.W. Bush entered the room from the right front of the stage, with former first lady Barbara Bush close behind. "Do I know you?" she said to me with a Cheshire cat grin as she walked by and sat within earshot and kitty-corner at the neighboring table. "We met in Prague some years ago, ma'am," I said. "Beautiful," she said. "We'll have to talk." And she sat down. It was the gala of the American Friends of the Czech Republic at Houston's venerable J.W. Marriott hotel last week.
JAKARTA, June 25 (UPI) -- An accused terrorist in Indonesia told CNN Islamic militants plan more attacks against Westerners.
JAKARTA, July 1 (UPI) -- Indonesian police have arrested 24 suspects linked to the 2002 Bali bombing and the 2003 bombing of Jakarta's J.W. Marriott hotel, the Jakarta Post said Friday.
SURABAYA, Indonesia, June 10 (UPI) -- A court has sentenced the wife of one of Indonesia's most wanted men to three years in jail for concealing information about his whereabouts.
JAKARTA, April 7 (UPI) -- Nearly 25,000 security officers will be deployed to safeguard the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta later this month, with 55 heads of state expected to attend.
JAKARTA, April 6 (UPI) -- Lawyers for an Indonesian Muslim cleric convicted of an "evil conspiracy" in the 2002 Bali bombings filed documents to support his appeal against his sentence. The documents filed by Abu Bakar Bashir's lawyers Wednesday in South Jakarta District Court inc
SINGAPORE, March 29 (UPI) -- The Jemaah Islamiyah terror group is repositioning and rejuvenating itself with much of its network still operating, a Singapore official has warned. "The JI has been knocked down but definitively not knocked out," Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said
JAKARTA, March 4 (UPI) -- Indonesia urged foreign critics Friday to respect a court decision sentencing Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 30 months in jail over the 2002 Bali bombings.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department said Thursday the 30 month sentence imposed on a Muslim cleric for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings is too short.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Business travel is finally on the upswing, and some travel-related businesses, including many hotels, say they are seeing increased activity as a result, despit
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