Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...River Bend Park is managed cooperatively by the MDC and The People for River Bend Park Trust. The MDC puts up the barriers, while the trust pays for the police who patrol the traffic...
...first week passed peacefully, with a swath of petty arrests and just one momentary scare: a security guard aboard an athletes' shuttle bus radioed that they were being followed by a suspicious car. In swooped the highway patrol and a sheriffs helicopter. The lawmen arrested a man, who explained his cache of weapons and explosives by describing himself as "a warrior of the people" and voluntary protector of the athletes. He was held for psychiatric evaluation...
...absolute chaos," said Police Officer Ruth Hoffman. "People were running and screaming in every direction. They couldn't find their friends or family." Paramedics treated victims where they fell; plasma bottles were hung from car antennas. Two dozen youthful Guardian Angels, a self-described anti-crime patrol, dressed in T shirts and red berets, helped restore order...
Security will be tight for the roughly 5,300 delegates and alternates (who will be heavily outnumbered by the 12,000 print and TV journalists expected to attend). Delegates will be escorted by the California Highway Patrol from San Francisco International Airport to their hotels, and they will be hauled to the Moscone Center aboard buses. Inside the mostly underground and mostly windowless center, the delegates will be under watchful eyes too. Taking no chances on a surprise insurrection, the Mondale forces plan to put a staggering total of 600 to 700 whips on the floor, each relaying the word...
...responsible for maintaining law and order at the convention, San Francisco Police Chief Cornelius ("Con") Murphy will not only command his own 2,000-member police force but also oversee 200 deputy sheriffs, 70 California highway patrol officers and 200 FBI agents. He has ordered work shifts extended to twelve hours a day, introduced a 229-member squad specially trained to disperse rapidly and arrest violent demonstrators, and overseen the planning for every contingency from tipsy delegates to terrorist attacks. Says Murphy, whose headquarters will be at the police command post across the street from Moscone Center: "We foresee traffic...