Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chasing a 14-year-old Negro burglary suspect, a cop pulled his revolver, fired and wounded the boy in the neck. Moments later, the neighborhood swarmed with outraged Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...
...newspapers were filled with news from the remote jungle village of Puerto Maldonado, on the Madre de Dios River in southern Peru, 35 miles from the Bolivian border. There, one evening, seven bearded young men entered the lobby of a small hotel. Curious about the strangers, a Civil Guard patrol asked for their papers. A youth with a bundle under his arm answered: "We have no papers. What do we need papers for?"The guardsmen ordered the seven to the police station...
...sent wave after wave of sign carriers from the 16th Street Baptist Church to march on downtown Birmingham. On the first day, the demonstrations were a bit like a picnic. The youngsters clapped and sang excitedly, and when Connor's men arrested them, they scampered almost merrily into patrol wagons. About 800 youthful Negroes wound up in Birmingham jails that...
...Duvalier's two children-Jean-Claude, 12, and Simone, 14-were being driven to Methodist Bird College two blocks from the palace, a car pulled alongside and shots rang out. Neither child was hit, but the driver and two bodyguards were killed. Duvalier called out the militia to patrol all the streets of the capital, and a heavy dread of reprisal set in. By nightfall his men had gunned down six people, including two motorists. The U.S. embassy warned the 1,000 Americans in Haiti to stay clear of Port-au-Prince, stock up on food and water...
...London, Conn., reported that the submarine had been out of touch for an hour and 47 minutes. Even this created no desperate alarm. Perhaps Harvey, his communications out, was simply riding out heavy surface seas in the tranquil depths. But by midafternoon, with Thresher silent for six hours, Navy patrol planes began circling the area. At 3:35 a hot line buzzed in the Pentagon office of Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. He learned for the first time that Thresher had disappeared. Within half an hour President Kennedy and all key Pentagon men had been informed...