Word: patrol
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...Force AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) planes would patrol drug routes along the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) near Colorado Springs, would use its ground and air radar stations -- designed for early warning against a Soviet missile attack -- to relay intelligence on any drug movements to law-enforcement agencies...
...Committee and specifically the Ceausescu family. Many of the 75,000 or so troops were recruited from orphanages and raised to regard their job with a loyalty bordering on fanaticism. Other uniformed crack troops, equipped with armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, were assigned to supervise the country's border patrol and guard the political prisons. A particularly brutish department known as Service K specialized in torturing political prisoners. Apart from these overt operations, as many as 3 million informants and collaborators -- in a population of 23 million -- clandestinely monitored mail and telephone conversations, analyzed handwriting samples to track down...