Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baton Rouge. An elephant costume sent from the National Federation of Republican Women has just arrived. They want a college student to put it on and escort Bush to the podium. Christy Casteel, Bush's Louisiana campaign director, needs to clear the costume with the Secret Service, but there is not enough time to do so before Bush's arrival...
...lover or a country when it gets too messy, too close. Like Tomas, she wears a wry smile for life's ironies -- the smile that knows and discounts all. Both need an outsider, in this summer of 1968, to show them what they are missing, and to escort them to the front lines of political melodrama...
...onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist. Khan died in Pakistan at age 98 and was buried in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. Afghan and Pakistani authorities allowed a funeral procession of some 2,000 vehicles to enter Afghanistan under Soviet military escort for the burial, which was attended by Najibullah. Just as Khan's body was being lowered into the ground, two bombs ripped through a parking area about half a mile away, killing a dozen people and wounding many more...
...Jerusalem. Goulding, a Briton assigned by the U.N. to investigate conditions in refugee camps, was snubbed by most Israeli officials, then denied access to two camps he tried to visit. When he finally made his way into the Gaza camp at Rafah, demonstrators threw stones at his army escort, and he was accused by Israeli military authorities of provoking a riot...
...warships began to escort 11 U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in July to protect them from attack by Iran, which considers Kuwait an ally of Iraq...