Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...territorial waters to a twelve-mile limit and to ban fishing by foreigners within that area (TIME, June 16). Britain's answer was to escort its trawler fleet with frigates of the Royal Navy, far more powerful than the one-gun patrol boats of the Icelandic coast guard. The British point: if Iceland gets away with a twelve-mile limit, other nations with valuable fishing grounds-Norway, Denmark, Canada-might follow suit...
Snap. In Fort Huachuca, Ariz., National Guard Sergeant Joseph J. Palacio dislocated his shoulder as he saluted an officer...
...police leaves were canceled, and for the first time since the Communist riots of 1947, the army was called out to guard "places of strategic importance." In metropolitan Paris the police in one day rounded up 3,000 Algerians and commandeered the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the Madison Square Garden of Paris, as a detention camp...
...riots only increased. Mexico City's Teachers College and Polytechnic Institute were caught up in the juvenile madness. On the campuses, students of law, medicine, history, philosophy stood guard over 300 stolen buses, breaking windows, looting cashboxes. Not a policeman showed his badge. Mexico's college campuses are sanctuaries, closed to police...
...Bank permission to hike its discount rate from 1¾% to 2%, the first such credit-tightening boost in eight months. The other eleven Federal Reserve banks will probably follow suit soon, thus signaling that 1) the Fed agrees that the recession is over, and 2) it is on guard to make certain that the recovery proceeds in a sound, orderly fashion...