Word: escorting
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...streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program sits in warehouses, as deliveries remain too dangerous to complete. Bandits have overrun the most important road in Afghanistan, from Jalalabad to Kabul, rendering it impassable to anyone without an armed escort (four journalists traveling along it were executed on Nov. 26). Blood feuds that smoldered during the Taliban years have rekindled into nighttime firefights. Asked about these problems, the city's top military commander, Haji Zaman, arches his eyebrows. "There is no problem," he says. "Everything...
Campbell said he had a police officer escort him to a first aid tent following the spraying...
...Then the crowd started throwing stones at us. Big stones. Who knows why? Because America had dropped bombs on them? Because we had an armed guard in a uniform as an escort? Because it was a novelty to throw stones at foreigners instead of always at each other? Maybe for all those reasons. Our armed guard and protector cowered behind a wall. He was to redeem himself later on, though...
...with purpose, shooing us with words and waves like we were pigeons. There were about fifteen of us, gathered with an equal number of Chinese colleagues at the appointed spot last Thursday to cover President Bush's arrival for his first ever meeting with Chinese President, Jiang Zemin. Our escort, who had taken us through multiple security checks had either turned against us or disappeared. He was replaced by a new fellow who yelled at our former escort and then at us. A daisy chain of authority followed: a new man would arrive, yell at the previous shepherd, reposition...
Shah Mohammed says the MBTA police agreed to escort any person who felt unsafe exiting the T stop to the traffic light on Mass...