Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extracted $250,000 in aid from the feds and the state. In the anteroom of his office in Prattville now stands a Burroughs 500 computer terminal that is plugged into Alabama and FBI crime information centers. Near by is a $30,000 radio console. Parked outside are eight patrol cars, a two-tone green 1976 van and a shiny motorcycle. Last week Turner was cruising about in a helicopter on loan from a federal civil defense program. The sheriff has also spent half of his grant money to train his staff, which has grown from three to 17 deputies-including...
...effusive man sat puffing on a pipe and talking with a friend, interrupting his conversation every 30 seconds or so to shout greetings to passing motorists. One of the motorists was a Cambridge policeman in a patrol...
...later effort to reverse a Dutch decision to buy French Breguet Atlantic patrol planes rather than Lockheed's P-3 Orions, Lockheed offered Prince Bernhard $500,000 in July 1968. The prince, who knew that the Dutch government had already decided to buy the French planes, refused the money. According to the commission report, Lockheed insisted on showing "its appreciation of the prince's honesty by offering him $100,000 just the same." A Swiss bank check for that amount was cashed by a mysterious "Victor Van Baarn" before it too went inexplicably astray...
...called Demilitarized Zone -a 151-mile-long strip of mountains and fields separating North and South Korea-is in fact the only area on the entire peninsula that the U.S. still officially designates a combat zone. Thousands of armed soldiers patrol the entire length of the 2½-mile-wide land-mined strip. Artillery and missiles on both sides are aimed at hills pockmarked with trenches. Since the zone was established by the armistice agreement of July 1953, 49 Americans have been killed and dozens of others wounded in clashes in and near the DMZ. The death toll for North...
...soldiers now stationed in South Korea, only 160 are assigned to Panmunjom, while South Koreans patrol the rest of the DMZ. The American volunteers-specially chosen for their conspicuous brawn and even tempers-serve 13-month tours of duty at the "truce village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged...