Word: patroling
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Poisonous Propagandists. In response to the common feeling among police that federal crime and gun laws would infringe on local authority, L.B.J. assured the chiefs: "I did not propose that the Federal Government take over the job of dealing with crime in the streets. Washington cannot patrol a neighborhood in the Far West, stop a burglary in the South, or prevent a riot in a great metropolis...
Along the DMZ there is no need to hunt for the enemy; he is all around, waiting for an opportunity to strike an unwary patrol, a lumbering convoy or one of the camps itself. The Marines mostly sit and wait, cramped in muddy bunkers and trenches. Day and night their 105-and 155-mm. howitzers shake the hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly...
...fought forest fires in the West, mined gold in Honduras, motor-scoot-ered through Europe, and worked his way to Viet Nam. There, as a free lance newspaper correspondent, he be came something of a hero by shooting it out with the Viet Cong when the 1st Infantry patrol he was accompanying was ambushed north of Saigon (TIME...
...wild country where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand meet is infested with virulent snakes. Rogue elephants roam its valleys, tigers and pan thers patrol its hillsides. It hardly seems a fit place for man. Yet that inhospitable area has attracted as motley an assortment of tribesmen, fugitives, thieves, freebooters and smugglers as exists anywhere on earth. They come and they stay on for only one reason: be cause of certain distinctions of climate and soil, Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, finds the place unusually congenial. Each spring the hillsides blossom into white and purple waves of flowers...
...Force 7,000, the Marines 2,000, the Navy 1,000, and the Army and Navy 1,000 military construction workers. The reinforcements will provide General William C. Westmoreland with nine new infantry maneuver battalions, three air squadrons, a doubling of the Navy's river-patrol force in the Delta, some 20,000 combat-support forces for helicopter tasks, communications and artillery...