Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl is lying in the intersection. She has been shot through the leg with a real pistol bullet. A boy has been shot in his shoulder and the side of his body. The police have a lot of people they grabbed pinned up against patrol cars...
...girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready to go when she learns that the shore patrol is downstairs and realizes that Gilpin has bragged about this escapade to everyone he knows. Once again, the knight-errant has undertaken his quest not in chivalry but in folly...
...beer from the refrigerator, but its buoyant creator, High-Tech Millionaire Nolan Bushnell, 40, forsees an almost boundless future for the $2,500 machine. Concerned about crime in your neighborhood? Not to worry, "Home security," says Bushnell, "is just moments away." With the proper software, he claims, BOB could patrol a house and call the police when its heat sensor sniffs an intruder. When BOB isn't watching the house, he could be cleaning it. "As soon as we get an arm on him, vacuuming will be easy," says Bushnell. Eventually, he hopes, "BOB will be programmed to fetch...
...coordinated with the Israeli Defense Forces. Lebanon's Foreign Minister, Elie Salem, a Christian, replied that the Lebanese army had "instructions to shoot and not to negotiate with outlaws." The Israelis did not press the argument, but on the day after the Lebanese army deployment, an Israeli tank patrol drove straight through a Lebanese army barricade in East Beirut, despite protests from the Lebanese soldiers on duty. Two days later, Israeli troops tried to disarm a French military convoy serving with the United Nations peace-keeping force in Lebanon...
DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma...