Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatal disease had appeared in the wilds of New Guinea, TIME sent Brisbane Correspondent Fred Hubbard after the story. A 1,400-mile flight to Port Moresby was only the first step. After that. Hubbard had to go by bush plane over forbidding razorback mountain ranges to a remote patrol post where a white man's back is still an inviting target to a savage spearman. At Okapa, Reporter-Photographer Hubbard got his story and pictures. For the results, see MEDICINE, The Laughing Death...
Last week a routine French patrol set out from Timimoun to check on a company located some 30 miles to the northeast. When they got to the area, they found the company's eight French officers and noncoms sprawled in their tents, their throats cut from ear to ear. The remaining 53 Shamba corpsmen had taken off across the desert with 180 camels...
...what Lieut. Servan-Schreiber has to report is dreadful, but men of good will fare almost worse than the corrupt brutalitarians. One officer was so dedicated to winning back the trust of the native population that he founded an Arab-French unit. On patrol, his outfit was betrayed into ambush and he was machine-gunned by one of his own Arabs...
...flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship of Ceylon's own eight-vessel navy (also one gunboat, six patrol boats). "This step," said Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz Bandaranaike, "was not taken in a spirit of hostility. Our foreign policy is based on friendship with all nations and nonalignment with any power blocs...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction. Radio patrol jeeps sped back and forth. A walkie-talkie crackled: "Hello Defiance, this is Crossroads Six." A crowd began gathering a block east of the school, where "Roadblock Alpha" had been thrown up at an intersection. Major James Meyers, a thin, hard man with the glint of a hawk in his eyes, ordered up a sound truck. "Please return to your homes," said he, "or it will be necessary...