Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal clearly that it remains determined to defend Western Europe, even in the face of a massive Warsaw Pact arms and troop buildup, the U.S. next year plans to base an additional 3,800-man infantry brigade in West Germany, near Bremerhaven. Meanwhile, crack U.S. units continue to patrol more than half the eastern frontier along with the West Germans who guard the entire border. Two armored cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army, about 8,400 troops in all, keep watch on the ground and aboard helicopters...
Hideous Fence. One of the patrol's main tasks was to note the progress the East Germans were making in renovating the hideous fence system they have built along the frontier to stop their citizens from escaping to the West. At one location, about 30 soldiers -guarded by other troops, in standard East German fashion-were sinking concrete pilings, stretching mesh wiring and installing self-firing explosives. Apparently the old system, consisting of two parallel mesh-wire fences with a minefield in front of each, was not considered deadly enough. Thus "improvements" are being made, at a cost...
...electronic eye and set up to hit, variously, at knee, head or chest level. One part of the old system remains: hungry police dogs on long wire leashes still roam along the fence. Muttered Cadet Wade Schieber, a West Point third-year man assigned to summer border-patrol duty: "It's hard to imagine the dreadfulness of this until you see it. It sure isn't any New York-New Jersey state line...
...patrol cars more effective with one policeman or two inside? The U.S. Army has taken a step that could make that question academic. It has assigned military policemen at Fort Dix, N.J., to patrol on three-speed bicycles. The early results have been dramatic: larcenies dropped 45% in the first month...
...United Nations. Since the fall of Saigon, anti-Communist South Vietnamese have had no choice but to make perilous escape attempts by sea. The risks are huge. Many are believed to have drowned in storms or other ocean mishaps. Even those who escape the surveillance of Communist patrol boats run the risk of being ignored by large ships they meet, or being forcibly pushed back to sea by police at supposedly friendly shores...