Word: patroled
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Third, the British and the French, who have powerful navies, are in fact on patrol around the gulf. As for the West Germans and the Japanese, they have no global navies to send. (We arranged for that after World War II.) Shall America wait then for the Canadians and Italians before venturing back into the gulf? As Secretary Shultz points out, the British have two frigates and a destroyer in the area, which is more, proportionately, than the U.S. has. The French also have warships in the region protecting their own vessels. Shouldn't they be acting with the United...
Those advocating retreat, in its various camouflages, ought not to be debating whether our defense budget should be $303 billion or $289 billion. Thirty billion ought to be quite enough to maintain all that their foreign policy would require: a few nuclear missiles and a Coast Guard to patrol the Florida Keys...
...Stark and other members of the Navy's Middle East patrol were showing the flag in the Persian Gulf. The Administration believed neither of the warring nations would dare attack a vessel traveling in the shadow of a U.S. warship for fear of American retaliation. Says a State Department official of the display of American military might in the gulf: "It's what gives our policy teeth." Following America's lead, Soviet naval boats also began patrolling the gulf...
...also let the public know about theduties of officers who patrol areas outsideCambridge, such as confronting armed criminals in themedical area, according to Donaldson. Two officerswere awarded for arresting a criminal onMassachusetts' 10 most wanted list at the MedicalSchool, following a chase and violent struggle...
...Stark was part of the Navy's Mideast Task Force, which normally consists of six or seven small warships that patrol the Persian Gulf to keep an eye on U.S. vessels...