Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blacks, Hispanics, Chinese and whites, wearing their trademark red berets, stood at attention to honor their fallen comrade. The services in Newark last week were for Frank Melvin, 26, a Guardian Angel who was the first member of the much publicized volunteer anticrime group to be killed while on patrol...
Melvin's slaying is the most serious incident in the brief and controversial history of the Guardian Angels. Just three years ago, they were the "Magnificent 13," a group of unarmed, street-smart youths who took it upon themselves to patrol New York City's crime-ridden subways. Ghetto residents felt that their presence on trains deterred muggers; transit police thought the red-bereted youths were a nuisance and dismissed Sliwa as a self-promoting vigilante. After a "memorandum of understanding," which assured police cooperation with the Angels, was worked out with New York City Mayor Ed Koch...
...forth. Her legs, still bowed, kick out spasmodically. You cannot tell if she hears the music in the nursery or the murmurs of the other babies, stacked up in their double-decker box cribs. She acknowledges no one. But everyone knows Palestine-if not by her blue "Space Patrol" sleep suit, then by the dark brown bruise on her right heel and, of course, by the circumstance of her birth...
...midweek the presence of troops in the capital had increased appreciably. There was more of everything: patrols, soldiers with fixed bayonets, armored cars and a few tanks. I spotted a Soviet patrol car and several uniformed Soviet soldiers casually strolling in the center of the city. One man told me he had seen about 30 high-ranking Russian officers leaving a Soviet Air Force plane at Warsaw airport...
...thought about wearing berets, but everyone threatened to boycott the wedding if we did." So says Guardian Angels National Director Lisa Evers, 28, who will marry Angels leader Curtis Sliwa, 26, on Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Sliwa founded the red-capped Angels, a volunteer crime-fighting citizens' patrol, back in 1979 in New York City. Since then the nonprofit movement has spread to 32 other cities. Evers and Sliwa grew close this spring after she organized an Angels chapter in Atlanta. Explains the roughedged Sliwa: "I began acting more human in her presence...