Word: convoying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tense Half-Hour. Then, three busloads of sightseeing U.S. troops were sent across the Friedrichstrasse entry point in a deliberate showdown. Bluntly, a Vopo at the barrier demanded to see the drivers' identity cards. But the convoy's captain just as bluntly refused. The rules required, he said, that documents be shown only to Russians. "These buses are going through in 30 minutes," declared U.S. Provost Marshal Colonel Robert Sabolyk. "If they are held up, we know what to do about it." When the half-hour was up, no Russian was in sight. Grimly, the bus drivers started...
...time came to move into postwar Germany. When Hitler's armies collapsed, one man was the logical choice to carry the Red flag into shattered Berlin: on May 2, 1945, Walter Ulbricht. flown from Moscow for the honor, drove into the Nazis' burning capital in a convoy of limousines with ten tough, trustworthy German Communist aides...
...Stalin purged dozens of his fellow German Communists in the World War II days, when much of the party fled to Moscow for asylum from Hitler. Ulbricht was apparently happy to see his political rivals disposed of. In May 1945, it was Ulbricht who led the little ten-man convoy of Communist leaders into war-torn Berlin to start the regime that today holds East Germany in a grip of iron...
...street in front of the terminal, surveyed the area from the second level of a garage across the street. At 7:15 the first bus pulled out for Jackson carrying twelve Freedom Riders, six National Guardsmen and 16 newsmen. Once out in the countryside, the bus was convoyed by three planes, two helicopters and 17 highway patrol cars. Bobby Kennedy followed the progress of the convoy by a special telephone rig that let him monitor police radio messages...
...arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted to the F.L.N., killing four French soldiers and four Moslems who refused to join them...