Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every stage, effective control of a correspondent's work will be in the hands of the military officers he or she is with. Coverage at the front will be permitted only for Pentagon-organized pools of reporters under constant military escort. In World War II, Korea and Vietnam, by contrast, individual journalists could make arrangements to rove the war zone -- at their own risk, of course -- and the use of pools was rare. All stories from the gulf will have to be submitted to prior military review and may face delays in cases of dispute. No such restrictions existed...
...until announced by the Pentagon. "You could drive an Army half-track through this provision," said A.P.'s Washington bureau chief, Jonathan Wolman. An A.P. reporter was among those whose copy was censored by the military in a 1987 incident, not only to remove operational details about a U.S. escort for Kuwaiti tankers but also to delete the fact that two U.S. officers had conferred "over a beer." The scrutinizer said the description "looked...
Blocking traffic and heckling passers-by, protestors marched down Mass. Ave, with a police escort, carrying signs and candles and singing "Give Peace a Chance" and "Down by the Riverside...
...million vehicles. When Chrysler dropped its U.S.-made Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models this year, the company began relying strictly on Japanese-built vehicles to fill out the small-car category of its product line. Ford was able to stay in the market only by basing its new Escort and Mercury Tracer cars on a Mazda prototype and by adopting that company's manufacturing technology...
...Fund the escort service so that it provides more prompt and reliable transportation. The University admits in the phone book that the escort service cannot be used for safety on a regular basis...