Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheered him and waved flags. Foreign diplomats in Havana could not remember the last time that Castro had ridden in an open convertible as he did with Kosygin (in a green Chaika, a gift from the Soviet Union); these days he usually travels in a closed car with two escort vehicles, all bristling with machine guns. "We passed a huge mural of Che Guevara," reported Correspondent Stevens of the motorcade from the airport. "A year ago there had been a companion mural of Ho Chi Minh. Cubans would only say it had been taken down. They did not know...
...message, the PCJP call for protestors to telephone the PRG representatives in Paris and and march to the White House to "escort President Nixon or his representative to the phone to set the date for the total withdrawal of U.S. forces from Indochina...
...passengers. He was told that only Kennedy Airport, nine miles away, could handle transatlantic planes. His gun at Miss Concepcion's back, Obergfell demanded a car to take him to Kennedy. But before it could arrive, he commandeered an airport maintenance truck and was driven, surrounded by an escort of police cars, to the international airport. Being towed out for him at a remote corner of a runway was a fully fueled Boeing 707. Its crew was to be headed by Captain Bill Williams, who flew Minichiello to Rome...
...midnight on July 30, South Vietnamese naval commandos under General Westmoreland's command staged an amphibious raid on the North Vietnamese islands of Hon Me and Hon Ngu in the Gulf of Tonkin. Apparently [the North Vietnamese boats that attacked the Maddox] had mistaken Maddox for a South Vietnamese escort vessel." The rapidity of U.S. air reprisals?within twelve hours of Washington's receipt of the news?argued that the U.S. had been positioned to strike as soon as attacked...
...first week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only...