Word: escorting
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...many reasons Bogota is not Saigon is that Congress has strictly limited how many U.S. troops can be on the ground. The 300 U.S. trainers in Colombia are handcuffed into training and escort missions only. U.S. drug warriors in the region have had to reach elsewhere, into the shadowy world of State Department contractors, to fill many jobs. It's an expensive decision. Chopper and crop-spraying contract pilots can make $100,000 a year. And because the U.S. doesn't want to send active-duty soldiers, the narcowars have come to serve as a retirement plan...
...fired workers object to the way they were let go. Just days before D-day, as Feb. 15 is now known at Dell, management was denying planned job cuts. On D-day, officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed up at the Dell campus to escort the doomed to their cars. Workers were encouraged to sign "the bribe," an agreement not to discuss their package or sue Dell, in exchange for up to four extra weeks of severance...
...Mark Thompson: Flights could begin as early as Thursday, but there's some concern over what sending a fighter escort would signal to the Chinese. These are legitimate flights in international airspace, and there's a feeling in some quarters that sending fighter escorts sends a signal that we think we're doing something wrong or hostile. They shouldn't need fighter escorts. Then again, you don't want to be the admiral who made that call if an EP-3 is shot down on Thursday. They may decide to have fighters nearby, but not actually escorting the surveillance plane...
...taken more seriously, owing to global warming. The sea ice along the northern coast of Siberia is retreating, and last year a team of international scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during summer months. Within 20 years, the passage is expected to be passable without an icebreaker escort. This northern route would cut the distance from Hamburg to Yokohama to 6,920 nautical miles, as compared with 11,430 through the Suez Canal. That could lead to more efficient shipping of all sorts of cargo between Europe and Asia--especially oil and other mineral wealth from Siberia...
...quick on the trigger. Three days after the DC-4 downing, U.S. Skyraiders patrolling near Hainan shot out of the sky two LA-7s that showed signs of hostile behavior. Radio Beijing announced that two American fighters had made piratical attacks on two Polish merchant ships and one Chinese escort vessel, but failed to mention...