Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airspace. NATO experts are alarmed by the dramatic rise in the flow of Warsaw Pact naval strength in the region and by the gradual westward shift of amphibious exercises. Soviet, Polish and East German destroyers cruise year round at the Baltic end of the Danish Straits; Soviet destroyers patrol the Skagerrak from May to October, in effect controlling traffic from the North Atlantic in and out of the Baltic. Last year the Soviets held a major naval maneuver off the west coast of Denmark for the first time; Danish officials expect a repeat some time this summer. The Soviets have...
...innocent who suffer most. Caught in the political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence and heard the guerrillas addressing a crowd of villagers. The two sides exchanged fire before the guerrillas slipped away. The dead and wounded lay on the ground for nine hours before...
...pictures and then cut them together and watch the magic come as I combine images and tell stories." The director, he goes on, is like a general sitting in the war room and sending other men to battle. He calls the film maker a lieutenant who actually leads his patrol across enemy lines...
Those of us detained here are living on the concrete floor of a large hall, within a rope boundary. Members of the National Guard patrol the perimeter, guard doors, and serve our meals. We sleep in sleeping bags on folding cots. The packs which we carried on our march to the Seabrook site we have with us; they hold our clothing, raingear, flashlights, water bottles, and all the paraphenalia with which we, and other members of the Clamshell Alliance, had begun to set up a new community at the nuclear construction site before being arrested, a process which began...
...long-haired college student who commutes to school in a flaming red Alfa Romeo, and to the highway patrol it seems I am begging for a speeding ticket. Without my Fuzzbuster, I would be at their mercy. When police radar is no longer accepted as automatic proof of guilt in traffic court, I will gladly put my radar detector away...