Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covert Offensive. The incident that touched off last week's Gaza flare-up might have happened any day. Israeli soldiers, their command cars stacked with small arms, sped on routine border patrol close to an Egyptian command post. Suddenly there was shooting. Caught in the open without cover, the Israelis, guns blazing, crossed the border and took the command post. When they retired, they left three Egyptians dead...
Tightening the command of his internal-security forces, Perón shifted the federal police from the Interior Ministry to a new Federal Security Council headed by General Félix Maria Robles, a trusted chum. In his new post Robles also bosses the coast guard, border patrol and provincial police...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...
...economic aid program is designed to provide Yugoslavia with a well-balanced and well-timed economic expansion, the U.S. politely refused Tito's request. It also continued to shower down on Tito F-84 jet fighters, T-33 jet trainers, reconnaissance and transport planes, guns, tanks, jeeps and patrol vessels, to the tune of at least half a billion dollars. The U.S. also chipped in another half-billion dollars for Yugoslavia's economic needs, and made it possible for Tito to borrow $113 million from international banks...
After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...