Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only serious smudge on the luster of this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have...
...able to use its victory both as a show to the world that a principle is intact and as a clean start to the negotiations that it haughtily avoided in the first place. Unfortunately, Thatcher's current stance is the old one. If she maintains it and decides to patrol the Falklands forever, as much as two-thirds of the British navy will be bobbing in the South Atlantic, and NATO will be looking to the U.S. for yet more money and more ships. Unless Britain uses the moment wisely, Argentina may also be radicalized out of reach, rejecting...
Instead of U.N. troops, an independent, multinational force, including U.S. soldiers, was created to patrol the Sinai desert along the Egyptian-Israeli boundary. Similarly, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wants the U.S. to be included in any future peace-keeping force that might protect the Falkland Islands. The danger of offending a superpower may be a greater deterrent than the fear of upsetting...
Community pressure has already prompted an increase in police patrols at the park. Last month, police added a motorcycle patrol and a mounted police officer to the Arboretum...
...this week's summit, each leader, along with four aides, will stay in the Grand Trianon; Ronald Reagan will sleep in a suite once occupied by Louis Philippe, an eight-room apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the canal and gardens. Some 3,000 guards will patrol the palace this weekend, and at the request of jittery U.S. officials, six antiaircraft missiles will be placed around the park. Frogmen have inspected every pool and canal for bombs and killer rabbits; the schedule allows for a late-afternoon gondola ride, if weather permits...