Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unthinkable only a few years ago and therefore at least symbolically worrisome." Symbolism aside, it helps the Soviets support their expanded military activities in Siberia. Sources in Seoul also say that Soviet submarines are bolder than in the past about playing cat-and-mouse with South Kore an coastal patrol boats...
Those 19 trainers were joined in El Salvador last week by a six-man naval training team that will help repair engines and radar equipment on Salvadoran patrol boats. The Reagan Administration is also sending four five-man training teams within the next few weeks to instruct Salvadoran troops in such subjects as intelligence, combat techniques and the use and maintenance of helicopters...
...also readying some $25 million in new equipment for El Salvador, including helicopters, vehicles, radar and surveillance equipment, and small arms. But El Salvador's greatest need may be more ships for its modest navy: only three of its eight aging patrol boats are seaworthy. The navy's futility is proved by how poorly it patrols the waters between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the route by which many arms shipments are smuggled to the guerrillas. When asked how many shipments the navy halted this year and last, Salvadoran Coast Guard Officer Nelson Angulo formed a circle with...
...soon as the coup collapsed, "moderate" Basque separatists, fearing a subsequent and successful military takeover, announced a cease-fire and released three foreign consuls they had held hostage for eight days. But more militant guerrillas blew up a national police patrol car in the Basque town of Portugalete, injuring three policemen; a few days later they killed the police chief of Bilbao. As pressure mounted from the right to declare a state of emergency in the Basque region, Calvo-Sotelo flew to Bilbao to pay respects to the dead man's family...
...bundles include huge stocks of emergency food doled out by international relief agencies at their sprawling refugee camp. At sunset, the women return to Cameroon, carrying bundles of clothing recovered from their abandoned homes. Relief workers say that the women fear being robbed and raped by Libyan soldiers who patrol N'Djamena at night...