Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brokered arrangement to open roads and bridges in Sarajevo beginning this week. The deal is wrapped tightly in cumbersome conditions. Both the Bosnian government and the Serbs encircling Sarajevo will have to approve -- or veto -- each traveler's plans in advance. Vehicles must have a U.N. escort. Military movement on the roads is banned and so are commercial trucks, leaving the city still dependent on U.N. humanitarian shipments. Still, it does provide the first chance in almost two years for ordinary Sarajevans to leave the city and travel to other parts of the country. In spite of occasional sniper fire...
Stevenson was presented by her father and her brother escorted her, "which is sort of how it works in the South; if you have a brother of proper social age, he presents you." Similarly family-minded, Robe had her cousin be her escort and a high school friend be her 'marshal', saying "I wanted to keep it low-key, with friends from home." And in Austin, men receive equal time with women in the social whirl. Malone notes, "All 15 of us, our escorts were chosen for us; it's sort of an honor for them...
...desperate acts. As a 10-truck U.N. aid convoy entered the Muslim village of Ticici in central Bosnia on its way to Tuzla last Wednesday, more than 200 residents stood waiting by the road. Someone opened fire from the window of a house at the convoy's police escort, and the villagers mobbed the trucks, grabbing for any supplies they could reach. It was the second attack in two days on a convoy in Ticici, where villagers believe they are not receiving their fair share of food...
Topics such as campus safety, abusive relationships, date rape--all these need to be addressed in this year's Take Back the Night, but the emphasis needs to be on positive change rather than on negative reinforcement. For example, the recently-created Safety Walk, the walking escort service on campus, offers a way to walk deserted streets late at night with minimal fear. In addition, Safety Walk, originally sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students, is geared to both women and men, emphasizing that safety concerns are not gender-specific...
...long-delayed convoy of 15 buses accompanied by a U.N. escort carried 700 people to safety from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The evacuation effort had been planned for months but was thwarted by fighting and bureaucratic tangles. Most of the refugees were Muslims, who went on to Split, Croatia; the remaining 100 were Serbs, who went to Yugoslavia...