Word: convoying
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...scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy up the coastal highway to Elmina Castle, which now serves as Ghana's top-secret arsenal for Moscow's guns...
...They are proud of their ill-fitting uniforms (most of them stripped from corpses) and fascinated with the rifles, bayonets, machine guns and bazookas they are introduced to. After one day's training, they are packed into a truck and rushed toward the rapidly approaching front in a convoy of reinforcements. But a kindly colonel yanks them off the convoy at the edge of town, orders them to guard (and expects them to abandon) a bridge with no military importance...
...Challe paced the lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...
...decisive moment came when Pathan warriors from Pakistan invaded the vale of Kashmir and cut the electric supply to Srinagar palace. Sir Hari promptly fled to Jammu, taking with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rebroadcast of the grim documentary, Suicide Run to Murmansk, the story of a World War II convoy that lost 22 of 33 merchant ships...