Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiated a 50-year lease with Britain for base rights on the atoll. Five years later, U.S. Navy Seabee teams began construction on Diego Garcia. It now has a complete airfield with a 12,000-ft. runway that can accommodate everything from the four-engine P-3 Orion patrol planes that fly submarine tracking missions from Diego to the huge C-5A and C-141 jet transports that land to drop supplies and refuel. The base also has permanent barracks for 820 troops, a large storage complex and a harbor that has been dredged deep enough (45 ft.) to accommodate...
...gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian government marshaled an imposing display of security forces, including 8,000 reinforcements flown in from around the country to patrol the city's waterways and narrow streets. Venetians were sometimes startled to see navy frogmen emerging from the littered green waters of the canals after periodic searches for limpet mines...
...lead article--no less than the third in a three-part series--concerns illegal aliens in the Southwest. Or, more accurately, it is about the "Silent Invasion--Brown Tide Threatens America." N.E. McDougald, the author, describes a series of nighttime maneuvers with the fearless men of the U.S. Border Patrol, and then offers his and others' views on the dangers unrestrained immigration presents...
...teacher's view, in short, of why teachers cannot teach is that teachers are not allowed to teach. "The teacher today is expected to be mother, father, priest or rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please...
...state throbs with military aerospace construction. At Douglas Aircraft's plant in Long Beach, the KC-10 tanker cargo plane is rolling out, and at Lockheed's Sunnyvale facility new ballistic missiles for Trident submarines are being built. The first of 18 advanced maritime patrol aircraft worth $700 million was delivered by Lockheed to the Canadian government last week...