Word: convoying
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Listening to all this in their temporary prison over the square, the hostages hopefully rounded up their things but dared make no move while for 51 hours the miners milled around outside. Finally, at 7 p.m., Rifkin led the charge down the stairs, into the waiting convoy of government vehicles, and away down the hill...
...would fight to the death against Communism for the values upon which the principles of democracy are based, but I swear, if we go to war over how many men can possibly be in a convoy truck [Nov. 15], I will not even go to a bomb shelter...
...French objections that it would be a mistake to codify the rules, the U.S. talked its allies into drawing up a memorandum that went to the Russians two weeks ago. For six days the Russians did not even acknowledge the memo. But when the U.S. sent a twelve-vehicle convoy across the East German border, Moscow gave its reply. As the convoy reached Marienborn, Lieut. Colonel Viktor Spiridonov ordered passengers to get out. Since there were only 20 passengers in the convoy (along with 24 drivers and assistant drivers), 1st Lieut. John C. Lamb, 25, refused...
...headquarters in Berlin. U.S. Commander Major General James H. Polk, immediately fired off a message advising the Russians that "it is the allies who determine under what circumstances they will order troop passengers to dismount." Snapped Spiridonov: "It is the Soviets and not the allied authorities who determine convoy processing procedures...
Around the Curve. Following his contingency instructions, Lieut. Lamb waited until nearly midnight, then started the convoy rolling again. A quarter of a mile down the road, around a curve, a line of Soviet armored vehicles and sedans blocked...