Word: contact
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...clouds and a drenching rain. The mission, code-named Operation Redwing, was to find and engage the enemy. But in late afternoon, the commandos sent back a one-line message to the "Ark," a coalition-forces operations room in Kabul. Accompanied by a warning chime, it read, "Troops in contact." Translation: a fire fight was under...
University administrators spent much of yesterday attempting to contact every Harvard student they believed was in London at the time of the attacks. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert Mitchell estimated that the number of undergraduates in the London area to be around 70, and the number of graduate students to be between...
Thousands of miles from London, officials at Harvard, watching television news reports of the London blasts for the first time, rushed to contact every Harvard student they believed to be in the London area...
...work or attend classes abroad under the auspices of many University offices, including the Office of International Programs (OIP), the Office of Career Services (OCS), the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), and the Summer School. Officials from several of these programs worked together Thursday to contact all of the students believed to be in the London area, as well as those believed to have plans to travel to London later in the summer...
...Director William Holinger said that he had discussed the London attacks at the daily meeting of SSP deans, and Summer School proctors had been directed to talk immediately with British SSP students about their family situations. If students were unable to contact their families due to the stress the emergencies placed on the London telephone network, Holinger said that the SSP was ensuring that students had access to international phone lines...