Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan was to send a diversionary column of 100 mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
Blinking Lights. Long before dawn one moonless morning, an advance patrol of seven heavily armed commandos, their faces blackened with burnt cork, landed on a rocky beach north of Baraka. Soon their signal lights began blinking the all-clear, and a patrol boat churned in with the first assault wave of ten men. Before they had waded all the way ashore, however, a cross fire of tracers arced down at them from machine-gun nests in the bluff beyond, forcing the mercenaries to take cover behind their boat...
They flee across the 90-mile Straits of Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats...
...stories were the same all along the frontier between the two armies. Only the name of the violator was changed, depending on which side was making the complaint. With only 41 U.N. observers on hand to patrol nearly 1,000 miles of contested border, it was impossible to tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling...
...night watchmen were not so sure of that. Under University Police protection, only one Radcliffe watchman would be on duty in the Quad from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly. Another man would patrol Radcliffe Yard and the third watchman would do relief work. Presently, the Quad area is patrolled by four men working two shifts from...