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...committee also calls for better use of the escort service, saying students should wait in secure areas for the car to arrive. True, students must accept some responsibility for their own safety. But there is a lot the administration can do to help them. The addition of a second escort car, for example, is badly needed: Many students are too impatient to wait outrageous lengths of time for the car, and instead walk home alone. A second car would help the late-night escort meet the real demand for its services...
...U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...
...Pentagon has slapped the American press trying to cover the Gulf conflict with a stifling set of restrictions. Only a small pool of journalists have access to most military sites, they can travel only under military escort and the escorts censor all outgoing news dispatches. The White House has also lashed out at journalists who have not transmitted the unadorned Pentagon line to the public. Last week, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater accused veteran CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, one of a handful of Western correspondents remaining in Baghdad, of being a "conduit" for Iraqi propaganda because he reported that allied warplanes...
...every stage, effective control of a correspondent's work will be in the hands of the military officers he or she is with. Coverage at the front will be permitted only for Pentagon-organized pools of reporters under constant military escort. In World War II, Korea and Vietnam, by contrast, individual journalists could make arrangements to rove the war zone -- at their own risk, of course -- and the use of pools was rare. All stories from the gulf will have to be submitted to prior military review and may face delays in cases of dispute. No such restrictions existed...
...until announced by the Pentagon. "You could drive an Army half-track through this provision," said A.P.'s Washington bureau chief, Jonathan Wolman. An A.P. reporter was among those whose copy was censored by the military in a 1987 incident, not only to remove operational details about a U.S. escort for Kuwaiti tankers but also to delete the fact that two U.S. officers had conferred "over a beer." The scrutinizer said the description "looked...