Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operated in the remotest parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly 50,000 patients at sick call, dug 75 wells, constructed 25 schools, built 125 miles of road with some 30 bridges, and trained 15 counterpart Thai border-patrol police teams in civic action work...
...historically No. 3 in news budget and ratings, tried the most novel approach. Forsaking gavel-to-gavel coverage, it opted for a nightly 90-minute wrap-up of the day's proceedings. While the opposition networks were carrying the early hours of the convention, ABC viewers saw Rat Patrol, Garrison's Gorillas, or an old Jerry Lewis movie. Simultaneously, of course, ABC cameramen were taping the minute-by-minute events on the floor and around town. This footage was quickly edited into an "instant special," which went on at 9:30 p.m. local time. The opening night...
...Hindus and Sikhs in Delhi flailed to death a six-year-old Moslem girl carrying her baby brother; TIME Correspondent James Bell's terse account of weary American troops fighting for No Name Ridge in Korea; Photographer Andrew St. George's file on a Castro patrol's foolhardy attempt to blow up an armored car with a crude bomb...
Time of Testing. As long as some 28 divisions of Soviet troops continue to patrol beyond Czechoslovakia's borders in Eastern Europe, the threat of military intervention will never be far away. For the moment, however, Eastern Europe's crisis seems to be over. Faced with a solid wall of opposition within Czechoslovakia and the support of Dubček by other Communist leaders (both Tito and Ceauşescu are journeying to Prague this week for a show of solidarity with Dubček), the Soviets had little choice...
...converted ATCS, called "Aid Boats" by Delta G.I.s, puff along at eight knots behind the Mobile Riverine's speedier patrol boats, whose missions are to inspect sampans for smuggled arms and materiel and attack suspected Viet Cong strongholds. The little flattops serve as refueling depots for support helicopters and as supply ships. But their most important duty is to serve as floating Medevac stations for the attack ships...