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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Bjrn Forsstrm
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2007-01-06 08:38:00
subject: Re: Fidonews

-=> Bj”rn Forsstr”m wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 BF> Just heard on the news that Scandic Hotels here in Sweden and
 BF> Norway are bought up by Hilton and now Scandic in Oslo Norway
 BF> had refused a delegation from Cuba to stay on the hotel. They said
 BF> that US law applied because the hotel was own by Hilton and they
 BF> have joined the embargo against Cuba.

That's the Hilton management's personal choice. Hotel management is
typically very "old school","good old boy" network,
think of conservative
balding men in 3-piece suits in executive boardrooms.

By that token, I shouldn't buy cuban cigars every time I go to Toronto.

 BF> It's things like this that makes us really wonder what what the heck
 BF> is going on.

I wonder for far more reasons than that.



 
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