Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that straddles important oil lands between Santa Cruz and Camiri-is steep and covered with thick, thorny vegetation and huge plants with leaves so sharp that they can slice through clothes and skin. The guerrillas first surfaced in March, when they ambushed and killed seven men on an army patrol. Since then, they have been striking once every two or three weeks. By last week they had killed 33 soldiers and civilians and lost only six or eight of their...
...position, despite Hussein's reasonable words, was rigidly frozen by the hawkishness of the left, the Israelis were daily becoming more rigid in their own positions. It was quite apparent that they expect to hold the conquered territory for a long time. They hauled big guns and little patrol boats over the desert to the banks of the Suez Canal, where a handful of blue-helmeted U.N. observers finally took up positions to guard the cease-fire line, conspicuously flying the blue-and-white U.N. flag to ward off trigger-happy soldiers on both sides. They sent technicians into...
...Israelis were also becoming aggressive about details. They insisted that the cease-fire line at Suez went right down the middle of the canal, and were ready to drop their little patrol boats into the water to establish legal precedent for the later passage of bigger Israeli shipping. The Egyptians, who insist that the cease-fire line is on the east bank, captured one boat, warned that any others put into the canal would be blasted out of the water. At week's end the only penetration of the canal was by some dusty Israeli troopers trying to cool...
Grainger said that dogs were "very effective" for flushing burglers out of large buildings and would most likely be used to patrol the warehouses in the Kendall Square section of East Cambridge...
There are no specific plans to use any of the dogs--probably as many as five in all-around Radcliffe, Grainger explained. But there is a possibility, he added, "there will be a patrol car with a dog up there once the dogs are trained...