Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American volunteer force in South Viet Nam." Last weekend, on the occasion of North Viet Nam's National Day, Hanoi announced that three P.O.W.s-one Air Force and two Navy pilots-will be freed. Within the next few weeks, members of American antiwar groups will fly to Indochina to escort them home. They are the first P.O.W.s to be released since...
...King was flying home from a three-week visit to France and his Boeing 727 jetliner was just descending to begin the approach into Rabat airport when three American-made F-5 Freedom Fighters of the Moroccan air force flew out to meet it. Suddenly, the aerial escort opened fire with rockets and machine guns on the royal plane. After two passes they had damaged the cockpit, cut hydraulic lines, smashed instruments and blown out a rear door. As Prince Moulay Abdullah, the King's brother related later, the quick-thinking Hassan called the attacking pilots on the airliner...
Matters were not much clarified by Sadat, although he was hardly standing mute. Last week, behind a motorcycle escort, the Egyptian President zipped across Cairo in his Mercedes-Benz 600 to Cairo University's domed Nasser Hall; there he addressed 1,750 delegates to an Arab Socialist Union Congress assembled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nasser's revolution. In a remarkable wide-ranging speech that lasted four hours (see next page), Sadat alluded to the expulsion of the Russians only in meager and unrevealing phrases. Much of his address was taken up with angry denunciations of Israel...
...stage a barbecue and dance for senior citizens. Trying out a waltz, one white-haired woman found herself in the arms of Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed but never prosecut Boston Strangler. DeSalvo, who is serving a term for breaking and entering and assault, proved a model escort...
...government dachas near the village of Uspenskoye are the Soviet Union's answer to Britain's Checquers or the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David. On a summer weekend, virtually the entire Communist Party and state hierarchy speeds in convoys of limousines under police escort to an exclusive park full of country houses...