Word: patroling
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Your article "Dragnet for Illegal Workers" [May 10] presents a biased view of the U.S. immigration laws and their enforcement. What should the INS investigators and Border Patrol agents be doing if not upholding the laws? That is their job. Paul L. Adams Arlington...
Peter Ashton, director of the Arboretum, said last week he hopes to initiate a park ranger program--at a cost of $50,000--to increase security because Boston police cannot adequately patrol the wooded sections of the complex...
...British used another combat-untested weapon to sink one Argentine patrol boat last week and damage another. Lynx helicopters operating from one of the task force's destroyers or frigates fired British-built Sea Skua missiles, air-to-ship weapons that have been deployed by the Royal Navy for less than a year. Many details of the Sea Skua remain secret, but it is a sausage-shaped device, 8 ft. long and weighing about...
Designed for helicopter launch, the missile is believed to have a range of about nine miles, greater than that of the antiaircraft weapons it is likely to encounter on its intended victims, small boats and patrol craft. To use it, a helicopter flies close enough to let its radar light up the target with radio energy, which, when reflected, provides a guiding point for the missile's homing computer. The Sea Skua streaks to its destination at over 550 m.p.h. and as little as 6 ft. above the surface. It is designed to penetrate the target before exploding...
...local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert for an outsider who does not appear...