Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...routine coastal patrol last week, Panamanian police noticed two dozen shrimp boats clustered near the island of Cebaco, on the Pacific coast. Suspicious, officers boarded one of the craft and discovered two packages containing 15 kg of cocaine. For Nestor Castillo, police chief of Veraguas province, it was a distressingly familiar episode. "In the past year we are getting flooded with cocaine processed in Colombia," he says. "More than ever before...
With little physical devastation beyond the oil fires that darken the skies, Kuwait appears tranquil. Most shops are closed, but the supermarkets are well stocked, and bargains -- 10 watermelons for $1 -- can be had from the Iranian merchants whose skiffs cross the gulf each morning. Giant minesweeping machines patrol the beaches, but few people pop up their umbrellas or venture into the water...
...commission also found that racist, sexist and homophobic statements appeared regularly in the messages officers typed to one another on their patrol-car computer systems. "I would love to drive down Slauson ((a black ( area)) with a flame thrower . . . We would have a barbecue," said one. "U won't believe this," said another. "That female call again said susp((ect)) returned . . . I'll check it out then I'm going to stick my baton...
...premise is a double what-if. What if sophisticated computers conspired to trigger Armageddon (you know when) and in the process created a humanoid terminator (you know who) to patrol the nuked-out landscape? Then again, what if a renegade from the future could vault back in time to keep the killer computers from being invented...
Before she got the hens, Brinkley had taken to wearing high fishing boots when she walked to the beach. "We were really infested," she says. "It seemed as if every blade of grass had a tick hanging off it." Her hen patrol has reduced the local tick population, although that has not prevented her from contracting the tormenting ailment that she and millions of other householders routinely take elaborate pains to avoid. The tick that infected her with what was diagnosed last week as Lyme disease probably, she thinks, bit her while she was horseback riding...