Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tense, fast-moving situations that have few similarities to a calm court of law. And there are no easy prescriptions for any part of a policeman's immensely varied job. "Keeping streets and parks safe is not the same problem as keeping banks secure. The kind of police patrol that will deter boys from street robberies is not likely to deter men with guns from holding up storekeepers...
...comes simply on two wheels so that it can be dragged overland manually. Then there are the even more rustic land mines, booby traps and Rube Goldberg-style gadgetry that the Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across a monster crossbow hidden in the jungle. It was cocked at the sky, ready to shoot a six-foot spear into some unsuspecting chopper...
Deep Concerns. Hall rebuffed the police, demanding to see an arrest war rant. Suddenly he pushed Mrs. Johnson down an outside flight of six steps and started swinging at the cops. All were smaller than he. Together they knocked him down, but Hall fought free. Patrol man Joseph W. Jackson, 28, clubbed him on the head with his night stick; the stick broke. Hall grabbed the bro ken stick and slugged Jackson. With that - and before his fellow officers could get back into the struggle - Jackson drew his pistol and fired six times, killing Hall...
...target is pinpointed by observers, who "reconnoiter the area for hours in slow-flying aircraft, often at great personal risk. If there is a possibility of hitting civilians, the whole thing is usually called off." In some areas of the Mekong Delta that have been declared "friendly," U.S. patrol boats are forbidden to return enemy fire for fear of hitting civilians. B-52 bombers, used only in full-scale open fighting, are electronically controlled and have a "remarkable" degree of accuracy. "The picture is reasonably clear," concluded the Economist. "Perhaps never before has a belligerent wielded such a preponderance...
Double Indemnity. "There are more of these that we suspect are suicide than we care to say," says John McCleverty, director of the Cook County, Ill., traffic commission. "But we simply don't know." Adds Colonel Dan Casey, chief of the Nebraska safety patrol: "We may have the feeling a traffic death may have been a suicide, but we need proof." Yet one figure, circumstantial as it may be, stands out. Though all auto deaths have increased by 32% in the past ten years, single-car fatalities that result from collisions with fixed objects-the most likely form...