Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides rolling roadblocks, Massachusetts State Police have also started cruising the highways in unmarked patrol cars, which can suddenly sprout flashing lights and wailing klaxons when near offending vehicles...
Soviet doctors stress the restorative virtues of spa vacations. At many resorts, visitors can immerse themselves in bubbling sulfur baths or inhale herbal steam. At Sochi, where the beach is covered with black pebbles instead of sand, white-uniformed nurses patrol seaside stretches with names like Medical Beach and Health Beach, enforcing a 55-minute limit on exposure to the sun's rays, even for the swarthiest guest. The preferred way for getting a quick tan is to stand facing the sun with arms held aloft. Because of a shortage of swimsuits and suntan oil, beaches are crowded with thousands...
...police are looking to the citizens for help. George Napper, the city's black public safety commissioner, helped create Partnership Against Crime, a program in which citizens and police identify safety problems in communities and work out ways to deal with them. So far, that has involved shifting police patrol hours, setting up neighborhood-watch programs and business-watch groups...
...with many military personnel, both active and retired, and relatively few Hispanic residents. The canyons and ravines on the south side of San Diego have become a no-man's-land, where Mexican bandits, many of them drug addicts, prey on their countrymen crossing the border illegally. U.S. Border Patrol agents and San Diego police trying to control this violence have run into Mexican police in the canyons who, they suspect, have participated in the robberies. On at least two occasions the officers from the two nations have shot at each other. Tensions increased last April after two U.S. Border...
Nowhere is that sentiment more dramatically highlighted than along the southern border, where illegal immigration is deeply woven into the local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says...