Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe Union of Students met with President Horner--and will meet with President Bok later this week--to press for security improvements. Horner said last week she would consider asking the University to set up a student escort service that would walk students home at night...
...south, the memory of last year's attack by zealous dissidents on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca still sends shudders through the House of Saud and the monarchies that rule the gulfs ministates. In the waters of the gulf itself, a Soviet guided-missile cruiser and its frigate escort have replaced the Shah's navy in patrolling the shipping channel through the 40-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. The U.S.S.R. now maintains 85,000 troops in Afghanistan and has military advisers in South Yemen and Ethiopia, while a fleet of ten Soviet warships and 16 support vessels cruises...
Striking quickly in the night, the army detained 120 of the country's leading politicians, government officials and trade union leaders. Demirel, leader of the Justice Party, was taken under escort to a military camp in Gallipoli, southwest of Istanbul, as was Bülent Ecevit, head of the opposition Republican People's Party. Martial law, which was already in effect in 20 of Turkey's 67 provinces, was imposed nationwide. A curfew was declared, and frontiers and airports were closed. The generals dissolved parliament, banned all political and trade union activity, and announced that they would...
...easy to see the inefficiency, the mediocrity produced by lack of competition, and the sluggishness of the bureaucracy. The national travel service is both rigid and expensive: it refuses, for instance, to make a hotel booking unless a visitor agrees to bear the cost of hiring an interpreter to escort him from the airport to the hotel. Many visitors do, of course, need such a service, but those who do not must take it anyway. Reservations on the national airline are almost impossible to make. Factories tend to be dirty, basic maintenance of machinery woefully inadequate. Produce markets are erratically...
That goal, however, could run into some buyer resistance. Drivers continue to be stunned by the price tags on the new models rolling out of Detroit. Ford announced last week that its new subcompact Escort would cost at least $5,128. That is over $1,000 more than the Pinto it replaces and will be about $200 more than a 1981 Toyota Corolla. GM's hot-selling Chevrolet Citation four-door hatchback at $6,282 will cost 9.6% more this autumn; the price has risen almost 40% since it was introduced 1½years ago. To make the price...