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When Vice President George Bush arrived at the fashionable Amway Grand Plaza Hotel last week, a full police escort flanked his 15-car motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged...
...Sunday morning they were back on station in the central Mediterranean north of Libya: the carriers America and Coral Sea, 14 escort warships and two other support vessels. Once again, as in the clashes around the Gulf of Sidra three weeks ago, the flattops were prepared to launch their 160 fighters and bombers against targets in the desert country of Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But this time there was no pretext that the exercise was to assert the right of free passage in international waters...
About 40 people attended a meeting yesterday to discuss plans for a student-run escort service. Baker said that she plans to meet with the dean of students tomorrow to discuss further possible safety measures...
...stolen kiss in the middle of a poppy field, are initially quashed by Lucy's rather repressed chaperone/cousin, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), who regards the kiss as nothing less than a violation of Lucy's honor--as well as a stain upon her own reputation as Lucy's escort...
...small demonstration prompted the event's moderator, the curator of the Harvard Film Archive, to cut short Yevtushenko's appearance at the Carpenter Center and escort him from the hall...