Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the River Spree and the miles of adjacent canals where East meets West in Berlin, Communist floodlights play constantly across the water, shore guards listen for every suspicious splash, and East Berlin patrol boats watch for the smallest ripple. Hence the thrill of West Berliners last week at the tale of two East Berlin lads who not only swam to safety, but also dared to swim back across to Communist territory to show their pals the route...
Shortly afterward, Meredith arrived from Memphis aboard a twin-engined U.S. border patrol plane, climbed into a border patrol automobile, and rode to the campus, escorted by a caravan of marshals with black, stubby tear-gas guns in their hands. The cavalcade swept onto the campus through the little-used West Gate and deposited Meredith at Baxter Hall with a guard of 24 marshals...
...fish tale. The North American Air Defense Command had long tracked the Soviet trawler fleet operating near U.S. coastal waters. There are some 3,000 of these ships afloat, and many do much more than fish. Heavily laden with electronic snooping gear, their real function is military surveillance. They patrol off missile-launching Vandenberg Air Force Base in the West, off Cape Canaveral in the East, along strategic points in the Atlantic and Pacific missile ranges. They have even cut underseas communications cables...
...went along with the President's contention that the Soviet weapons in Cuba are "defensive" in nature. How formidable the military buildup has become was evident from an official report on what U.S. intelligence has detected so far. It includes twelve antiaircraft missile installations under construction, eight patrol boats carrying guided missiles with a range of n to 17 miles, and some 60 MIG fighter planes. At the coastal town of Banes, 60 miles from the U.S. base at Guantanamo (see THE HEMISPHERE), the Russians are building facilities for launching ground-to-ship missiles with a range...
...believe in U Thant's good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack a Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops. Though the U.N. commander admitted that "someone might have been hit," Acting Secretary-General U Thant's office in Manhattan called the incident "a cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan...