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PRESIDENT Michael S. Dukakis will "escort Secretary of State-designate Jesse Jackson to Capitol Hill," after his inauguration in 1989, screams a leaflet distributed by the North Dakota Republican Party...
...rapes occurred October 4 and October 21 within two blocks of each other. Since then there has been a substantial increase in the use of the Brown shuttle system from about 40 people a night to more than 100, and the late-night escort service is overtaxed as well. The University has rented a second shuttle bus and is developing plans to expand the escort service to meet the increased demand...
Brown's Undergraduate Council, campus security and women's groups are working out a plan this week for increased escort services that will be suitable to all. This planning arose after several Brown fraternities proposed running escort services themselves. Many women groups were unhappy with the fraternity plan, fearing it would merely increase the incidence of date rape...
...discuss military strategy and the internal politicking with Massoud, the leader of Jamiat-i-Islami, Burhanuddin Rabbani, 53, in September made his first trip to Afghanistan's northeast since the war began. Accompanied by an escort equipped with Stinger missiles, the former Kabul University theology professor met with Jamiat commanders in Panjshir's bomb-scarred villages. Rabbani told TIME that he thought it unlikely that elections could be held soon after Kabul falls. "It is important to establish a government on the basis of the vote of the common people of Afghanistan," he said in a bow to principle...
...campaigned for him in 1964. Bush in his early oil travels lived briefly in Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this circle -- and one who would fall for Nixon's own locker-room bravado as a political style. It did not work well for Nixon, but he managed to persuade some people...