Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands a peculiar kind of precision from police officers, namely a certainty about how much grass makes an ounce. A Los Angeles importer says he has sold several thousand pocket-size scales from Hong Kong to various police departments. In Los Angeles, the scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope...
Vicious Traps. A favorite I.R.A. tactic is to put gelignite into a milk churn, then stand it by the roadside among dozens of other containers that farmers put out at night to be collected by the dairies. When an army patrol passes by, the terrorists detonate the churn by remote control. Other I.R.A. traps are just as viciously clever. A month ago, two Ulster policemen were lured by a false report into an isolated area, where they were ambushed and killed...
Meanwhile, all townspeople on the street quickly melt away, to be replaced by I.R.A. gunmen, who fire at the soldiers from behind parked cars before vanishing again themselves. These attacks have become so ritualized that Crossmagleners have posted signs warning incoming motorists whenever an army patrol ventures out. More often than not, the I.R.A.'s illegal tricolor flag hangs above the gutted town hall...
Separate Groups. The racial separation extends to two school organizations. The courtesy patrol, which monitors halls and classrooms during lunch, is all black. The safety patrol, which supervises street crossings, is 60% white, and most of its officers are white; whites feel more secure outside...
...Soviet regime in Angola would enable Moscow to complete its network of African bases. The small, sleepy fishing village of Baia dos Tigres (Tiger Bay), for instance, has a superb deepwater anchorage; it could readily be developed into a base that would make it easy for Soviet ships to patrol the South Atlantic and, in the event of a confrontation with the West, intercept oil tankers from the Persian Gulf...