Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were bitterly resentful of shoddy treatment by previous administrations and rough handling by a virtually all-white police force. His first step as mayor was to make a humanitarian Michigan Supreme Court Justice his police commissioner. The city began hiring and promoting more Negro police, integrated two-man patrol cars for the first time; and the police commissioner supervised meetings with Negro groups to discuss police problems. Cavanagh appointed a Negro city controller, highest appointive office ever held by a Negro in Detroit. In 1963, 20 years to the day after the Detroit race riot that cost 34 lives...
...overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
What failed to come, for all but a few of the patrols, was Victor Charlie. One U.S. unit was ambushed at dawn scarcely 200 yards from its campsite chased the V.C. into a hole. The Airborne troops dropped in grenades which yielded four dead. Was that the name of the game? Hardly. For the most part, Ben Cat was like the sergeant "You go out on patrol maybe twenty times or more and nothin', just nothin'. Then, the twenty-first time, zap, zap, zap, you get hit-and Victor Charlie fades into the jungle before you can close...
...city where much of Saigon's Chinese population lives. "First, there are the frogs we call rainettes. If they stop chirping, look out. It means someone has come near their paddy. Next, you listen for three loud squawks from the blue water birds. You can actually plot a patrol's course by listening to the frogs and birds...
...turned around. Roberto was shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours, he heard the engine stop. Then nothing-for 16 hours-until he heard the patrol boat's siren wail...