Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators had arrived at the Armory at 7 p.m. after marching from several locations. The bulk of the marchers left a Copley Square rally at 6:20 p.m. and surged up Commonwealth Ave. behind a small police escort...
...came to pass that three antiwar activists journeyed to the camp of the enemy to escort three American prisoners of war back to their homeland [Oct. 9] and thereby, in collaboration with the enemy, to score a great propaganda victory over the U.S. But upon arriving in their homeland, the three American prisoners of war emerged from their aircraft adorned in the military uniform of their country, complete with decorations they had received in combat with the enemy. They thereupon repudiated those who sought to make profit from them-causing the profit-seekers to scream like roasted cats...
...Norris Charles, a captive since Dec. 30, 1971. All three were placed in the custody of Mrs. Weiss and Antiwar Activists David Dellinger, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Princeton International Law Professor Richard Falk. Charles' wife Olga and Mrs. Gartley were also part of the American escort. Even though they were released from prison, the flyers were not immediately allowed to leave Hanoi; instead they spent eight days relaxing, shopping and touring bombed areas in the North...
...looks as if everyone's back from the beach." So it seemed. Many of the returned vacationers packed into TV Interviewer Barbara Walters' Manhattan apartment for her 41st birthday party. Among the celebrators: Walter Cronkite, Jacqueline Susann and Phyllis Cerf, Bennett's widow, with her steady escort, former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Then the door opened and in walked a man who introduced himself: "I'm Martha Mitchell's husband." "Yes, how well you look," said Radio-TV Announcer Ben Grauer to former Attorney General John Mitchell. Barely unpacked after her move from Washington...
Those regulations had first been devised by the Johnson Administration at the time of the bombing halt, and were carried forward and amended by President Nixon. Reconnaissance overflights of North Viet Nam would continue, and armed escort fighter-bombers would accompany the unarmed photographic craft simply for protection. The rules of self-defense were that the planes could not open fire or drop their bombs unless they were 1) fired on by anti-aircraft emplacements, 2) engaged by MIG fighters in the air or 3) threatened by surface-to-air (SAM) missiles. Pilots could readily tell when they were...