Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racing bicycles, pedaling for all they were worth. Close behind were two vin tage French-made armored cars, their .30-caliber machine guns pointed unsportingly at spectators. It was an odd procession, and as it whizzed past his foxhole outside Danang, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Charles Armour, 18, whose patrol had been ambushed nearby only hours before, could only marvel: "It's really weird...
...latest incident involved an Israeli patrol boat, which came within 150 yards of the Syrian seacoast town of Musadiye. According to Syria, the boat fired toward shore. According to Israel, the Syrians fired first. Either way a flock of Syrian MIG-17s and MIG-21s came flying in from one direction and Israeli Mirage-Ills from the other, and before the two sides stopped shooting, one MIG went into the drink and another crashed in Syrian territory...
...closing all but four gates of the Yard at sunset. This had been a weekend-only policy during the regular year, but Baird decided to put it on a daily basis in order to restrict entrance to the Yard and make it easier for the University police to patrol the dormitory area...
...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
Knee-deep in mud, the correspondent pushed doggedly ahead into Viet Cong territory with a U.S. Marine reconnaissance patrol. Later he was up and at them with the Green Berets near Pleiku, then hopped aboard a helicopter to participate in a 1st Cavalry airborne assault landing. "He moves like a worm in hot ashes," said an admiring U.S. officer, but that came as no news to the folks at home. The newsman was eye-patched Moshe Dayan, Israel's former chief of staff come to a war as a correspondent for a Tel Aviv paper. And as one soldier...