Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of the attack, the Sheffield, a modern, computerized ship commissioned in 1975, and known in the British fleet as "the shiny Sheff," was on radar patrol about 70 miles from the Falklands. Its main duty was to protect the vulnerable aircraft carrier Hermes from air attack. Instead, the destroyer fell victim. At least two, and possibly three, French-built fighters, including at least one Super-Etendard fighter-bomber, were about 550 miles from a mainland airbase, presumably at Rio Gallegos, and nearing the limit of their combat range when the radar on a Super-Etendard locked...
Thus the diversion of some (not all) resources back to foot-patrols would not place the populace at any increased risk and could aid significantly the sense of order and safety in a neighborhood. The emphasis on mobility, as Charles Silberman pointed out in Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice "keeps patrol officers encapsulated in their cars, unable to get to know, or be known by, the people on their beat." Like citizen patrols, the return to foot-patrols by uniformed police officers could make the neighborhood the focus of a renewed and welcomed presence of law and order...
Across the country, similar raids were conducted last week as a special strike force of 400 INS investigators and Border Patrol officers fanned out to search for undocumented workers in a $500,000 operation dubbed Project Jobs. In five days, more than 300 raids netted nearly 5,400 such workers in nine metropolitan areas.* The targets were supposed to be businesses paying considerably more than the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour, not the usual farms and restaurants. "We felt it would be good to center on these areas where we think the higher-paying jobs are held by illegal...
...Hermes and Invincible are equipped with only 20 Sea Harrier vertical short-takeoff and landing jet aircraft. The Harriers are highly maneuverable but also are relatively slow (top speed 736 m.p.h.) and have a maximum range of only 460 miles-or about 100 miles for a 1 1/2-hr. blockade patrol. The Royal Navy's version of the Harrier is not well suited to supporting ground troops; for that, the British need a longerrange, Royal Air Force version of the aircraft, the Harrier GR.Mk3. A British container ship, the Atlantic Conveyor, is now bringing 18 of the Harrier GR.Mk3s...
...m.p.h. In a jerry-built fortress, the more admirable survivors have assembled an oil refinery-but, surrounded by the marauders, they cannot escape to use their precious petrol. Into this version of cattlemen vs. homesteaders rides a scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image of paradise: the seacoast, 200 miles away, and peaceful freedom...