Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounding a total of 18. And for the first time, uniformed Viet Cong were appearing openly in groups on the outskirts of Saigon-well within the seven-mile defense belt long claimed by the police to be impenetrable by the enemy. In one street battle last week, a police patrol traded fire with a Viet Cong squad for 20 minutes before the guerrillas melted into side streets. At the suburban police station of Tan Quy Dong, 30 Viet Cong assaulted the chief and three recruits on duty, who escaped, wounded, only by jumping out of windows into the nearby river...
...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...
Zapped Again. It was on the second day of the patrol that the unit got bush whacked. When the Communists opened fire, Owen struggled loose to form a defensive formation with half a dozen others. After firing a few rounds, his weapon jammed. "I'd never fired an M-14 before," he says. "I figured I'd better learn." Yanking out the blocked magazine, Owen replaced it and aimed at what looked like a moving tree. It spun sideways and fell. "Man, I was really praying then," he says. To stay alive? "Heck, no," he replies earnestly...
...across town. During every march, six or seven of them sit quietly in cars, parked at strategic points along the parade route. They don't make daring sorties into the white neighborhoods or exact any sort of revenge. They seem much more like a volunteer suburban security patrol than dashing vigilantes...
Another sore point is García-Godoy's failure to round up rebel-held arms in downtown Santo Domingo. By night, political terrorists patrol the streets in speeding cars, blasting away with machine guns and hurling hand grenades at their enemies. Last week García-Godoy was even considering bribery to encourage Dominicans to turn in their weapons-up to $80 for a pistol, $55 for a rifle, $250 for a machine...