Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even while the Radcliffe Union of Students amasses signatures on a petition asking for increased security measures, including a demand for more and better escort service, administrators tend to point out the difficulties with any proposed security measure...
Admittedly, most Cabot residents were Quadded against their wishes. And initially, they hated it. They dreaded winter, being late for classes every day, and dealing with the escort service every night. But now many love it and wouldn't live anywhere else...
...committee also calls for better use of the escort service, saying students should wait in secure areas for the car to arrive. True, students must accept some responsibility for their own safety. But there is a lot the administration can do to help them. The addition of a second escort car, for example, is badly needed: Many students are too impatient to wait outrageous lengths of time for the car, and instead walk home alone. A second car would help the late-night escort meet the real demand for its services...
...U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...
...Pentagon has slapped the American press trying to cover the Gulf conflict with a stifling set of restrictions. Only a small pool of journalists have access to most military sites, they can travel only under military escort and the escorts censor all outgoing news dispatches. The White House has also lashed out at journalists who have not transmitted the unadorned Pentagon line to the public. Last week, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater accused veteran CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, one of a handful of Western correspondents remaining in Baghdad, of being a "conduit" for Iraqi propaganda because he reported that allied warplanes...