Word: escorting
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...funeral cortege drove north toward the Israeli settlement of Itamar to bury a resident killed by Palestinian gunmen in an ambush. Nitza Tzameret was in the third car in the procession, behind an army-jeep escort. When the vehicles approached the Palestinian village of Kafr Khalil, shots rang out. The cars halted, and the terrified mourners poured out. Tzameret and her husband lay in a ditch at the roadside as Israeli soldiers returned fire up into the olive groves. The gun battle lasted 30 minutes. Since then Tzameret has slept no more than two hours a night, fearing intruders...
DIED. JOHN AGAR, 81, Air Force sergeant, actor and, briefly, husband to Shirley Temple; of emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. Agar was 24 when a friend enlisted him in 1945 to escort Temple, then 16, to a party. The two married and three years later had a daughter, but Agar's drinking led his wife to file for divorce in 1949. He appeared with Temple in John Ford's cavalry classic Fort Apache and went on to a film career that included westerns, war films and a host of grade-B horror flicks, including Revenge of the Creature and The Brain...
...photographer had snapped a passerby without permission, locals told us angrily to get out - or else. On the main track out of the village, young men bent over the hood of a car, their sidearms showing. One played with a two-way radio that was, a Georgian police escort remarked glumly, more modern than anything his men had. A brief visit to the Gorge, about three hours drive from Tbilisi, made it clear that the area was completely out of Georgian control. The escort, from the local police headquarters, admitted that he had been in the village - the edge...
...each show also goes in, at least figuratively, with a military escort. The producers are "casting" their shows and say they have final cut, though they will screen episodes for the military to ensure they don't give away secrets. But Washington can pull the plug anytime. And however well done the series are, they could become, for lack of comparable journalistic access, the most vivid, complete and lasting images of the conflict for many Americans while, say, misdirected military strikes vanish into...
...group's Olympic gig next Saturday? The scene had all the requisite elements of a boy band's arrival: fans professing their undying love; a crush of journalists recording the star's every move; desperate autograph seekers (with minders restraining the most persistent of them); and a police escort to help the hero escape the crush...