Word: convoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter press secretary Jody Powell said that yesterday was Carter's last day of campaigning in the Bay State, and there were no plans to return Tuesday night. After the Faneuil Hall speech the Carter campaign convoy made a brief but high-in-symbolic-content visit to Salem before taking off for the South from Logan Airport...
...rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage in a six-car caravan made a trip to the coastal city of Limón, whose officials were courting a Vesco investment. After entering the driveway of a popular country restaurant, the convoy suddenly pulled out and sped away. Someone had spotted the American ambassador's car parked out front...
Same Questions. Between April and August, the group was moved four times, ultimately being taken by truck up to North Viet Nam. During the journey through the South, their small convoy passed a group of children who shouted excitedly: "The Americans are back! The Americans are back!" Inside North Viet Nam, the missionaries were interned at Son Tay Camp, near Hanoi, which was the target of an abortive raid to release U.S. military prisoners in 1970 (they had been moved elsewhere just before the raid...
...weeks a convoy of 15 giant barges, each longer than a football field and carrying vital equipment for construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, had waited at anchor for strong winds to blow ice away from the shore line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid...
...first trouble encountered by the barges since they left Puget Sound in July for the 3,500-mile voyage. Of the 47 vessels in the original convoy-the largest in peacetime maritime history-ten made it through to Prudhoe. Another 19 turned back for southern Alaska ports: they encountered the worst ice conditions in 77 years. One barge was beached and is being repaired. The 15 that turned back last week contained, among other items, modular buildings, without which oil production cannot begin...