Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well armed for their size, but in South Viet Nam's network of narrow waterways, these craft were extremely vulnerable to ambushes. Hidden in the dense vegetation that grew along the banks, the Viet Cong killed and wounded sailors with unnerving regularity. To serve a year on a river patrol boat meant a 70%-to-75% chance of becoming a casualty...
...craft speeding through the August night north of Key Largo, Fla., looked like the kind favored by drug smugglers. It tried to run from a U.S. Customs patrol boat and stopped only when Agents Patrick Olive and Robert Rutt drew close enough to play their searchlight over its cockpit. One of the four men on board had a record of three narcotics arrests. But a thorough search turned up nothing, so Olive and Rutt could only wave goodbye. Perhaps the boat had been on a successful reconnaissance mission. As Olive explained, "The dope people have their own intelligence and counterintelligence...
...country, it seems, is awash with drugs. Fine white powder pours past the border patrol like sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against...
...Administration would not be raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...
Gurkha soldiers, renowned as some of the world's most valiant fighters, have been deployed in recent years to quell disorders arising from militant Sikh demands for an independent state. Today Sikh soldiers patrol Darjeeling to prevent further Gurkha agitation...