Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus ended a dramatic stake-out at the Mount Pocono airfield that involved U.S. customs and border-patrol agents. Federal Drug Enforcement officials and Pennsylvania state police. The cops' sporadic watch had begun last month, following a tip that a mysterious chartered plane might land somewhere in Pennsylvania with illegal goods...
...unsavory commerce in human beings began, Bonn has purchased 7,200 prisoners. The cost: $108 million. The West German government dislikes this grisly trade but justifies it as a humanitarian necessity. West Germans live too close to incidents such as last week's, when a West German border patrol heard a shot go off from a self-firing gun mounted on the border fence. The shot was followed by cries of "Help me! I'm dying! Let me cross!" Another escape attempt from East Germany had failed...
...Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that he was ready to go to a Geneva conference "without preconditions," and would sign a peace agreement with Israel. Sadat's plan also calls for total Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied since 1967, as well as United Nations peace-keeping forces to patrol the frontiers and guarantee free movement of ships in the Aqaba Gulf...
...direct the distribution of food provided in great quantity by the people of Athens, who showed up voluntarily for this purpose; to establish a small hospital in the school staffed by volunteer physicians and medical students, in case there was a violent junta attack to dislodge them; and to patrol the campus and prevent infiltration of student ranks by police agents. A homemade radio transmitter, heard throughout Athens, broadcast the following student demands: immediate surrender of power by the junta to a government composed of all anti-junta resistance groups and political parties, return to democratic rule, cessation...
...generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol headquarters. There, dispatchers record the location of the box and call for a tow truck, ambulance, fire engine or squad car. Help usually reaches the motorist within 30 minutes...