Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa's west coast, for example, Guinea has been a faithful ally of Russia since 1959. Soviet naval units call regularly at Conakry's fine harbor, where they stock up on fuel and supplies for mid-Atlantic patrols. The Red fleet also regularly puts into ports in the Congo (Brazzaville) and Equatorial Guinea. On the east coast of the continent, Soviet planes and warships use bases in Somalia from which they patrol the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz, which leads to the oil-rich Persian Gulf. At Berbera the Soviets are completing a sophisticated installation capable...
...future, the store may employ women to patrol the aisles with concealed cans of mace, the store's day-time cashier said yesterday...
...Dawn Patrol, Saturday...
There's more swashbuckling in The Dawn Patrol with Errol Flynn and David Niven, playing at Harkness Commons, but the action takes place in the skies over France, not on the streets of the City. Flynn and Niven maintain a collective stiff upper lip as they repeatedly tangle with the Boche. Plenty of dogfights...
...military side, the Egyptian President knows that he cannot realistically expect the massive aid Washington has been giving Israel-especially as the U.S. approaches an election year. Sadat would, nonetheless, like sophisticated defensive weapons: patrol boats for the Mediterranean coastline and the Suez Canal, the F-5E "defensive" jet fighter, and the TOW wire-guided antitank missile, which Israel used effectively in 1973 against Egyptian tanks in the Sinai. He will not ask Washington to stop aid to Israel, but he will reiterate a request that it not heat up the arms race by giving Jerusalem advanced weapons like...