Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidently not. In Seoul, South Korea's Defense Ministry reported that one of its patrol vessels had been captured, not sunk, at roughly the point cited by North Korea. The Seoul vessel had been on picket duty, assigned to warn South Korean fishermen when they strayed too close to Communist waters. A slow, unwieldy tub, armed only with a single .50-cal. machine gun, it would have been no match for its speedy, heavily armed North Korean captors. In Washington, the U.S. Navy flatly denied that any U.S. ships had been operating in the area...
...incident seemed to be simply another chapter in the continuing struggle between the two Koreas. So far this year, South Korea has sunk two North Korean patrol boats, and it is possible that the latest episode was simply retaliation by North Korea's Premier Kim II Sung. Although there was some initial suspicion that Washington and Seoul might be collaborating on a cover story to obscure an espionage exploit, high-ranking sources insistently denied...
...back up his threat, Israeli troops and tanks moved into Lebanon in a new tactic of continuous patrol. Fearful that the Israeli patrols were the prelude to an invasion, and weary of repeated shellings, 20,000 Lebanese streamed north, away from the border, by donkey, car and truck. Two farming villages, Kfar Chouba and Kfar Hamam, were completely deserted and soon occupied by Arab guerrillas. In nearby Khiam, Houla and Blida, men sent their women and children away and stayed on themselves to protect their homes and possessions...
...patrol's commanding officer (Denholm Elliott) is a well-bred British fumbler who keeps getting his men bushwhacked on an island in the South Pacific. The cynic-in-residence is a cool-eyed cockney medic (Michael Caine), who alternates between bandaging the wounded and needling his commander. A reluctant Japanese-language specialist seconded from the American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance...
...vengeance, Arab guerrillas slipped over the Lebanese border into Israel near a village called Baram. Judging from the tracks they left, there appeared to be eight of them. Hiding in a clump of bushes beside a road 500 yards from the border, the guerrillas allowed a military patrol to pass. Then came a target more to their taste−a bright yellow school bus on its customary morning run, packed with five-to-eight-year-olds from a moshav, or cooperative farm, called Avivim. When the bus slowed for a turn in the road, the Arabs attacked...