Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have become tense because of Soviet military buildups in Aden and Iraq. The U.S. believes the Soviets aim at cutting off oil supplies, and it "surges" an eastern task force into the Indian Ocean. This includes an aircraft-carrier strike group, a convoy escort group, attack submarines and antisubmarine patrol planes. The Soviet forces in the area include land-based bombers, missile-firing submarines, cruisers, destroyers and high-speed missile boats. The computer?the Warfare Analysis and Research System (WARS)?projects a display of the positions, speeds and courses of the ships involved on two 15-ft. screens...
...warships steam toward the Persian Gulf, intelligence reports warn that a large number of Soviet bombers have left their bases. At the same time, an American P-3C antisubmarine patrol plane detects a Soviet sub north of the carrier group and within missile range...
Sooner than you can lay down foul lines, unleashed dogs patrol the Yard dropping obstacles all over your potential basepaths. Before you can chalk in the coaching boxes, B & G fences off all the sod at Harvard into polygons, triangles, and other high school subjects...
...least one village to the Palestine Liberation Organization after being fired on by P.L.O. mortars. "The situation is tense," explained a Norwegian officer. 'We are not going to make it any worse." The anomalous nature of the U.N. role is pointed up by the fact that, for patrol missions, the French have brought in eleven armored personnel carriers loaded with mortar launchers-not so much for fighting as for intimidating any combatants who happen to be in the area...
...Consider Korea's Demilitarized Zone, which stretches for 151 miles near the 38th parallel, between North and South Korea. For a quarter-century, two armed adversaries have sullenly, sometimes violently, confronted each other across its 2.5-mile width. The sights of innumerable guns sweep it constantly. Observation planes patrol along it daily. But human beings never stay there for long. And because it is so totally a no man's land, the DMZ is not abhorred by nature...