Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrive at the police station with apprehension. This, after all, is HUPD. I find the Harvard Escort Shuttle Service in a tiny corner office. I had expected a "Pizza Ring"-like operation: visions of drivers flying out the door in fireman-like fury raced through my head. But I saw no panel of phones, no running drivers. Amazingly calm for an operation that received 26,042 calls, transported 26,030 people, and traveled 48,717 miles last year, according to John C. Miller, Escort Service Supervisor...
...recruits. "There is this guy who always calls," he says. "I'm not sure what his name is exactly. He calls himself '007.' He says very crazy sort of Dennis Hopper-type-movie things: 'I'm down here at CIA headquarters; come pick me up. I need an escort from Nashville, Tennessee to New York City.'" Michelle R. Kawamoto '95, one of the trainees, jumps in. "He calls here and has these theories about who assassinated JFK. Sometimes they'll put him on the PA system and everyone will listen...
...Still at the base, waiting-my escort is late...
...repeatedly urge Richard to give me the perfect story, representative of the escort service's dedication. He can't think of anything off-hand. "There was this one time when nine people came running up to the car..." He cuts himself off, claiming he can't tell me that one. But the car has arrived...
Singing as they sailed from Mogadishu under escort by U.S. and Italian troops, 903 Bangladeshi soldiers ended their frustrating U.N. peacekeeping tour in Somalia. The remaining U.N. contingent of 1,500 Pakistanis is scheduled to depart Thursday, the last of a 38,000-strong force that failed to establish a democratic government. Once the peacekeepers are gone, the country's warring clans are expected to fight over the Mogadishu's air and sea ports. The Somali people, meanwhile, will fend for themselves. "All of us hoped against hope the Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs...