Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from peasants. Last year, in thousands of little quick strikes, they blew up 284 bridges, killed 4,000 officials, village elders, soldiers and farmers. Last week, with South Viet Nam headed for the polls in a presidential election, fighting broke out all over. Just north of Saigon, an army patrol blundered into a Viet Cong ambush, lost 13 dead and eleven wounded. Forty miles south of Saigon. the army surprised seven companies of Viet Cong, killed 54 and captured 80. In the capital, Saigon terrorists tossed a grenade into the garden of a U.S. aid official, seriously wounding him. Another...
...situation, trouble was inevitable. It came one night when 8,000 disgruntled students milled together at Atlantic Avenue and East Las Olas Street-Lauderdale Beach's main intersection-and created a monumental traffic jam. The harried, police, beefed up with reinforcements from nearby towns and the Florida Highway Patrol, treated them gently at first, until someone smashed a beer bottle over a police lieutenant's helmet. Then the cops got rough. They cleared the intersection in one violent rush, and appeared to be in control until George T. Dalluge, a 22-year-old senior from Minnesota...
Mayor Samuel Resnic of Holyoke, Mass., wrote that "we are planning to purchase $50,000 worth of motor vehicle equipment for our public works department, six trucks for our water department, six cruisers for our police department and a police patrol wagon." Bridgeport, Conn., promised to purchase new vehicles for its entire police fleet; Stockton, Calif., advanced the date for purchase of 16 police cars; and Port Huron, Mich., ordered three police cars and two trucks. The city manager of Kennewick, Wash., got so carried away by Mariani's plea that he not only issued orders for five...
Armed guards now patrol the catwalks over the mess hall in California's maximum-security Folsom prison-the result of two riots early this month. At San Quentin, wardens and guards have new instructions not to attempt to break up any gathering of Negro convicts without assistance. At the Reformatory for Males in Breathedsville, Md., last week, three inmates had a total of 14 months added to their sentences for savagely beating a guard. In a Washington, D.C.. prison, 38 prisoners in punitive segregation became so noisy, rattling cell doors, throwing food into the corridors, and talking...
...They gave directions." The sect's leader seemed like "a kind fellow," wrote the patrol captain, until "one suddenly remembered a sequence in a documentary film about the atrocious doings of the sectarians. This same face was thrust back, gazing aloft, his hands supplicating God. trembling in ecstasy, and by his mad praying infecting dozens of ignorant folk. The man in front of us was not just someone who was sincerely misled. In front of us was the enemy...