Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...
...have been soldiering with this lost patrol since we were kids: the gruff but caring sergeant, preternaturally wise in the ways of the enemy and the equally hostile terrain; the street wisecracking kid; the slow-drawling bumpkin; a man called Hammer and another called Pretty Boy. And, of course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine...
...funding has not been the arboretum's only problem in recent years. About 10 years ago, a woman was attacked while jogging through the arboretum in the early morning. Security at the arboretum was subsequently increased. Today park rangers from the Boston Park District patrol the grounds on horseback and in jeep vans. Boston Police also drive through the grounds many times daily, says Jo Procter, the arboretum's public affairs oficer...
...represent an even loftier accomplishment in diplomacy, since it has become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal so much advanced aviation technology to Japanese defense contractors...
...thousands of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico each year, the journey north is harrowing enough. But just across the border in California, they encounter a final and at times fatal obstacle. Weary and bewildered, pursued by the Border Patrol and sometimes carrying small children, as many as 150 people a night dart out into the hurtling freeway traffic. Already, seven fatalities have been reported this year. Since the body count began in 1985, the total has reached an alarming...