Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia University, the administration has added a new security patrol because of seven recent muggings or attempted muggings on campus...
...East Germany has effectively sealed off its 17 million people from the West. The fortifications have been progressively extended, and new security devices are constantly being added. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs visited the West German side of the bristling barrier and flew a 40-mile surveillance mission in Army patrol helicopter...
...commander of the U.S. llth Armored (Black Horse) Cavalry Regiment, which is charged with border surveillance in the central sector at Fulda. "But we are forbidden to interfere until someone actually gets across the line. And we must make sure that we don't violate that line on patrol, not with a single footprint, tire track or rotor blade." Crow assigns daily helicopter patrols to fly "the trace," as the border is known, always with specially trained pilots. Ground patrols operate within a few feet of the frontier, occasionally augmented by new M-60A3 tanks, says Crow, "to remind...
...arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers...
...Secret Service agents went to the office of Larry Chambers, then Customs patrol supervisor for the area, to find out about the raid. They mentioned that Chip would soon be going fishing aboard the Foxy Lady. Chambers recalled last week that he nearly fell out of his chair when he heard the news. "Jesus Christ!" he exclaimed, "That's a boat that is going to be seized in the dope bust." According to Chambers, one of the agents replied, "My God! Chip is out right now drinking beer with the owner and some other young guys...