Word: mps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pleased with the experiment, the MPs have decided to make their bike patrols permanent. There have been a couple of problems, however. Two-hundred-pound MPs were bending the bikes out of shape, so the base plans to buy half a dozen sturdier models with thicker tires and wider seats. And a number of MPs found at first that they were all too popular: flocks of cycling children rode after them as if the pedaling policemen were Pied Pipers...
...emergency, if only to give a semblance of a free campaign. That she was not prepared to do. If the emergency were lifted, she told the convention, neither her 20-point social and economic program nor any other program could be effectively carried out-a claim that opposition MPs scoffed...
...with government personnel if and when it came time to run. Pan American last week managed to operate two scheduled flights into Saigon, even though the airline said that its Tan Son Nhut airport personnel were "trying to rush hundreds of passengers aboard airplanes" and "coping with bayonet-carrying MPs." Thursday's 373-seat Pan Am 747 flight, however, left with only 170 passengers aboard. One reason: some of the remaining Americans were making getaway plans and then postponing them. Explained one U.S. executive: "I'm afraid of the panic among the employees that might happen...
...things. A bunch of troops had left their trucks and were eating lunch. A couple of beautiful Vietnamese girls were singing and talking to them. Well, I figured we would never get to Hue, so I sort of started directing traffic. Things started moving and a couple of young MPs came and took over...
While driving Lieut. Follett's car without a military driver's license, SP4 Johnson was stopped one day by MPs; he was fined $80, reduced to private and given 14 days extra duty. Then he was transferred to another job at a dispensary in Worms, 25 miles away, forcing him to commute by train or car, or to hitchhike. Says Johnson of his new assignment: "The people here are pretty nice. As long as I keep my bunk tidy and footlocker straight, nobody cares where I spend my nights...