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Word: patroling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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First hit was a montagnard patrol-it was decimated by a scythe of small-arms fire. Then a 20-man outpost in a clearing below the fort was overrun-the defenders died in their bunkers. At the main fort, U.S. Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Seven Days of Zap | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Speaking about the possibility of a U.N. solution to the Vietnamese war, a different official had argued previously that "the U.N. will patrol a war but is not likely to wage war." He also added that a full scale debate in the U.N. Security Council would only embarrass the Russians politically and force them into an even less flexible position on Vietnam. With no solution in sight, the official concluded, "a debate on this issue would only aggravate the current situation...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Officials Doubt China's U.N. Admission | 10/30/1965 | See Source »

...University Police have decided to detail one officer every night to patrol the Cambridge side of the Weeks Memorial Bridge. The decision follows an attack made there Tuesday night on three Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weeks Muggings Prompt Patrols | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

Cabot also explained that because the bridge area is solely under MDC jurisdiction, University Police cannot patrol the bridge or either bank of the Charles River. However, the University Police will have one officer walking a beat every night on the north side of Memorial Drive between Winthrop and Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weeks Muggings Prompt Patrols | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

Ranger cadets will study preventative measures for ambush, defensive tactics for units under ambush, and operations in difficult terrain. They will deal essentially with the "leadership and tactics of small patrol units within larger combat battalions," Shean explained. The platoon will learn techniques of first aid, communications, water survival, land navigation, and demolitions, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard R.O.T.C. Begins Program To Teach Counter-Guerrilla Tactics | 10/26/1965 | See Source »

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