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When a president goes knocking on the doors of his citizens, it's usually a campaign stunt. But not in Peru. President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday raced around Lima with an escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year...
Student volunteers for the program escort students from location to location late at night. The Harvard University Police Department sponsors the service...
...early suggestion was McCain would use a state police escort to speed off to Logan Airport following his IOP appearance, hopping on a direct flight to St. Louis...
Indyk is now like a lawyer disbarred. Practically every government document a diplomat touches is classified, so without clearance, the ambassador can do no work. Indyk cannot even walk around the State Department or his own embassy without an escort. Israeli officials fear his absence will damage the Middle East peace process, in which he was intensely involved. Prime Minister Ehud Barak considers him a trusted conduit for exchanges with Washington. Albright defends her decision. "Ambassadors have a responsibility to protect classified documents," she told TIME. But the crackdown could make doing their job more difficult...
Marc Stad '01, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said 300 Harvard students will participate in the Gore campaign's preparation. They will be driving in the motorcade that will transport Gore from his hotel to the debate site, helping Gore's advance team escort the national press corps or participating in "visibility" rallies and sign-waving in Boston...