Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first day of school for the balding, 38-year-old engineer, and campus police had to escort him to classes at the University of California Medical School at Davis. "I'm very happy to be here," said Allan Bakke, enrolled after the U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling last June invalidating the school's preferential admissions program. Others were not nearly so delighted by his presence. As Bakke arrived, demonstrators shouted, "Affirmative action we demand; unite to smash the Bakke plan!" but the student kept his cool. After a three-hour lecture in molecular and cellular biology...
...Camp David this Tuesday. The Egyptian President is arriving from Paris, where he was to meet with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to discuss the summit's prospects. At Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, he will probably begreeted by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who will escort him to the presidential helicopter for a 35-min. flight to Camp David's helipad. Vance is expected to remain at Andrews to meet Begin, who is due 90 min. later from New York City, where he was scheduled to spend two days resting and meeting with American Jewish leaders...
...ambassadors of Costa Rica and Panama. They quickly reported back with the guerrillas' demands: 1) the release of 59 political prisoners; 2) $10 million; 3) repeated broadcasts over government radio of an almost two-hour-long Sandinista communiqué; and 4) Venezuelan, Mexican or Panamanian planes to escort them from the country...
...crew and seven bystanders were wounded. The Israelis criticized the British for having failed to provide El Al air crews with proper security. The British do not permit Israeli security guards to carry firearms on their soil, but after the London attack they assigned armed guards to escort the airline's personnel...
...port of Louisburgh in County Mayo. Once they had traversed Wales and crossed the English Channel to the French coast, the men on Double Eagle II found themselves the center of a flock of light airplanes and helicopters that whizzed by in salute and formed an honor guard to escort them the rest of the way. One plane carried the three balloonists' wives, who waved frantically and blew kisses to their husbands. By this time, the adventurers had tossed most of their ballast overboard, including the computers that had helped them navigate and much of the elaborate radio gear...