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  • n  a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war

  • Wrapped in vinyl, it contains all that a faltering Viet Cong needs to defect, including a safe-conduct pass and a map of the local district showing precisely whereand how .
  • It was Serov who masterminded the kidnaping of the late Premier Imre Nagy after he had been given a safe-conduct to leave Budapest's Yugoslav embassy.
  • Imbert appealed to the rebels holed up in downtown Santo Domingo to surrender their weapons, guaranteed their safe-conduct "without reservations.
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  • Antonio Cuenco in INQ7.net
    The safe-conduct pass should ensure that Joma would not be arrested once he sets foot in our territory,said Cuenco, who expressed optimism over the possibility of the peace talks' resumption after both government and communist leaders...

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