Word: patroling
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...success of the government's economic programs has also given rise to a clutch of unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous...
Simpson-Mazzoli attempts to please a variety of special interest groups. Its four major provisions consist of the stiff sanctions against employers wo hire undocumented workers, a temporary guest worker program and a general increase in funding and staff for this country's immigration agencies--the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). An amnesty plan--which would give residency to illegal immigrants under certain conditions--is perhaps the most naive assumption the bill makes...
...contras told TIME'S Jon Anderson, who accompanied the assault group, that prior to their daylight attack San Juan del Norte had been hit by gunfire from the sea. At one point in the fighting, the contras said, they used mortars to drive away a Nicaraguan patrol boat accompanied by two fishing trawlers. The rebel commander said one of the boats had later been sunk and that "your countrymen did it." According to the A.R.D.E. officer, the feat was accomplished by a small boat launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have...
Officer Kathleen Stanford suffered a broken jaw when her patrol car slammed into a bridge abutment about three weeks ago, Morse said. The crash occurred as Stanford tried to avoid hitting a car that had pulled in front...
...February 17, however, Border Patrol agents arrested two Salvadorian refugees and two Brownville church members travelling with them along a South Texas Highway...