Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Security Patrol began in October 1972 primarily as a fire-watching crew, with 14 students. The patrol worked only in the Houses and was generally a small operation...
There is still a depressing mood of fear in Chile. Armed troops patrol Santiago's streets, and gunfire is frequently heard at night. Most observers now believe that the death toll is around 2,000, not 675 as the junta claims. Executions continue, though indiscriminate killings apparently have ceased. Several thousand political leftists are still being held in military prisons without trial. Political parties have been banned, and the junta indicates that the earliest it might allow elections would be in two years...
...black troops are used to "mentalize the masses"-a sort of winning-the-hearts-and-minds program carried out by living with villagers for long periods, organizing self-help projects and pleading the Portuguese cause. Other units, known as flechas (arrows), are made up of rebel defectors who sometimes patrol in captured uniforms and are rewarded with cash bounties for every guerrilla or guerrilla weapon they capture...
...blue who patrol Harvard Yard moved a step closer to the counterparts in the Square last week when the University Police Union signed for a 5.5 per cent pay hike...
...amendment to the Cambridge city ordinances that would place a minimum on the number of policemen on patrol met with the exercise of Councillor Robert Moncreiff's charter right. The move will delay any adoption of the amendment until next week's council meeting, where it will be reconsidered...