Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carcasses of two scorched jets on the runway. To the left stands Shuweifat, where Ahmed is on patrol. The vantage point is Israeli headquarters, a secondary school beside a music conservatory. Armored vehicles rest in the parking lot. It is here that one must arrange for an escort to the south, to Tyre. The trip is scheduled for Sunday. The Israeli officer is helpful. He laments the war. "The world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby and came...
...last stand. Speaking on the Voice of Palestine radio station in an angry, desperate tone, Arafat vowed to turn Beirut into "the graveyard of the invader and the Stalingrad of the Arabs." Arafat and other top P.L.O. officials spurned calls to surrender their arms in exchange for safe escort out of Beirut. Young guerrillas bulldozed walls of red clay to serve as barricades and cut holes in street pavements to plant mines. Despite the overwhelming odds, Palestinian morale seemed high. Said a P.L.O. major: "We have grown up fighting in the streets of Beirut. It is what we do best...
...House of Commons, Defense Secretary Nott announced that recent additions to the British task force (an additional three destroyers, four frigates, two submarines and a large minesweeper joined the fleet last week) more than balanced its losses in the past few weeks. Said Nott: "The task force has more escort vessels today than a week...
Your article on the Toyo Kogyo Co. [April 26] states that the Mazda GLC is the world's third bestselling model, behind the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. You have been misinformed. Ford's Escort is the bestselling car in the world. Estimates for 1981 show Ford Escort at 823,000, the VW Rabbit at 759,000 and the Toyota Corolla...
Harvard policeman Robert King also testified yesterday, saying that he and officer Thomas Simas had to escort Ngo through a large crowd of hostile demonstrators who chanted and yelled obscenities at him as he left the forum...