Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure in the investigation, notably Chicago's First National, New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia. Some 30 bank examiners and half a dozen lawyers so far have pored over more than 5,000 pages of documents. At night, guards patrol the offices to prevent any theft or tampering with evidence. Some portions of the report were being written last week, but the bulk of the investigation was still being pursued, under the direction of John G. Heimann, 48, the deceptively youthful comptroller...
...Londonderry, the I.R.A. Provisionals claimed credit for a sniper's wounding of two soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A. statement, was "the direct responsibility of Queen Elizabeth...
...fought for enosis (union) between Cyprus and Greece, but the agreement on independence forbade that. Instead it guaranteed a separate Cyprus and a political share to the Turkish minority. Ancient ethnic hatreds, however, soon brought the two communities into bloody. conflict. The United Nations dispatched a force to patrol the "Green Line" that separated the two ethnic groups. But the ceaseless hostility on Cyprus crippled NATO's eastern flank in the Mediterranean...
...area. Authorities also passed the word they would grant no parade permits there this month to Jewish, Nazi or black groups, because Marquette Park is already booked up with sport and youth events, and "traffic problems" would result. More important, as the Marquette area's deputy chief of patrol Charles Pepp admitted, "a march could very well precipitate a major race riot...
...breakaway splinter group called the Martin Luther King Jr. Movement Coalition obtained a parade permit for the area three weeks ago, forcing police to call up a 750-man protective patrol. When blacks showed up to march, however, police claimed a coalition leader had called and canceled the event the night before, prompting them to cancel the reinforcement call. Some blacks attempted to march anyway, but two leaders were quickly arrested and the march halted. Even so, angry white mobs went on a rampage. Perhaps hoping that tempers might cool with a change in the weather, the city then stated...