Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes. Now and then audacity can overcome obsolescence, as it did last March, when three MIGs took on a flight of U.S. jets twice their speed and bagged a brace. Last week the technological superiority of American planes and weapons asserted itself: missile-armed Phantoms flying combat air patrol 40 miles south of Hanoi nailed a pair of audacious MIGs, sent them flaming to the deck. The run-in proved again that Giap's airmen would face disaster if they came up in force; and Giap's navy has practically disappeared after four months of U.S. air attack...
...sweatshirts began to crowd onto the main street, chanting "Let him out! Let him out!" Hundreds climbed to the roof of a nearby dance hall, began to pelt the police below with bottles, cherry bombs and rocks. Others broke in the windows of nine stores, turned over a patrol car. When 125 policemen from neighboring counties arrived and began to search nearby tourist cabins, they discovered, among other things, a room that contained 42 people, including four nude girls...
...where scores of motor-powered sampans ferrying Sukarno's guerrillas and saboteurs have been intercepted off the Malay Peninsula in the past year, the Indonesians are now using kamikaze tactics to frustrate Malaysian patrol boats. Suicide sampans are rigged with explosives so that they blow up when halted or hit by naval guns, thus deterring attack and giving other insurgent craft a chance to escape in the confusion...
...Sailors. Strangest of South Viet Nam's services is the navy, whose duty it is to patrol 1,000 miles of cove-pocked coastline and almost 3,500 miles of inland waterways-rivers, creeks, canals, irrigation ditches and tidal bayous. In the flat, checkered Mekong Delta, waterways have been the main routes of travel for centuries. The 9,000 officers and men of South Viet Nam's navy keep these arteries open with 600 curious vessels, ranging from sampans and junks to converted landing craft. Armed with 20-and 40-mm. cannon, heavy machine guns, even...
There are an estimated 80,000 vessels of all kinds plying the South Vietnamese coasts. The Junk Patrol is reported to conduct 12,000 searches per month. This would mean each boat is searched only 1.8 times a year. If a gun carrier is approached by a South Vietnamese vessel intent on a search, what would be simpler than slipping the evidence quietly over the side? And if the gun carrier were operating by night, there would be no earthly way to catch...