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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Two taxi drivers said they saw missing hostage negotiator Terry Waite walking yesterday in a southern Beirut suburb with an escort of about 10 gunmen and four turbaned Shiite Moslem sheiks...
...Reagan administration announced the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy would begin a port call in Israel on Friday and that four of the Kennedy's escort warships had been ordered to sail for home...
...police were concerned that Adams House was too close and that SASC [Southern Africa Solidarity Committee] members might be watching tunnel exits," says Boyer. However the escort did not have much choice--the tunnel turns into a one-foot-high crawlspace to cross Massachusetts Avenue, above the T tunnel...
South American drug traffickers have appreciated this attitude. Arriving regularly from Colombia, Bolivia or Peru at the Torrijos airport, they hire armored cars and off-duty policemen to escort them and their money to hotels. When a Cuban-born woman called from Miami to ask her Panamanian lawyer for help in making a deposit, he assumed she needed legal advice. What she really wanted was assistance in lugging dozens of shoe boxes filled with small- denomination bills to the bank...
Small wonder. Inspecting convention sites is the most popular perk in Democratic politics. Limousines pick up committee members at the airport. Sirens wailing, police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...