Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the New York Times, Hocking, a former member of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches, attacked the American patrol of the Formosa Straits. ". . .all the long-time considerations," he wrote, "require our planning for the normalization of the relations of the Chinese coast to the Chinese mainland--the sooner the better...
...hours (see below). Though Hammarskjold himself was characteristically uninformative in public, Cairo reported that he won Nasser's agreement to a plan for reducing border tensions, mainly by creating a buffer zone extending 550 yards on either side of the frontier, within which U.N. military representatives would patrol. Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion had turned down such an idea of Nasser's before, but now was reported agreeable. From Ben-Gurion, Hammarskjold next wanted a written pledge that no troops would be ordered across Israel's frontiers...
...wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief...
...Grenonillage (roughly, leapfrogging), to kill off the rebel bands. Decoy patrols are sent out into the hills to act as moving targets, inviting attack. Supporting them are teams of helicopters scattered in impromptu bases. When an attack comes, the patrol radios to the base. In a typical grenouillage operation last week, a call came in to Lieut. Colonel Marcel Bigeard, established in a burned-out farmhouse south of Bone. Within minutes, Bigeard had seven helicopters loaded up; he took off, returned with 15 captured rebels, three mortars and 60 rifles...
...other times, the incident at Gaza might have seemed routine. But last week the foreboding eye of the West was fixed on the bristling cockpit of war that is the Middle East. Egyptian mortars opened fire on Israelis patrolling along the Gaza border, as they had on many another routine patrol before. But this time the patrol, pinned down in a gully, lost three men before Israeli artillery counterfire released them, and the bitter reflex of reprisals began. The Israelis shelled an Egyptian village, the Egyptians replied with mortars on four Israeli frontier settlements, the Israelis retaliated by a heavy...