Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets. There is also a forbidding 10-ft. green wooden fence, set back from the road and stretching for miles. If, despite these warnings, he should pull off the shoulder even for a moment, armed guards are likely to materialize out of the woods or roar up in yellow patrol cars and hustle...
...recent warm evening in Key West, Fla., a sandy-haired, blue-eyed teen-age boy swam ashore carrying a compass, knife and can opener. He later appeared at a highway-patrol office and told the authorities, tearfully, that he did not know...
...ration du Québec train in the Middle East, where among other things they learn assassination tactics. The bodies of an Eritrean and a Turk have been found among those of Palestinian guerrillas ambushed by the Israelis in the Jordan River valley; presumably they were on patrol as part of their training for eventual operations at home...
...shores of Lake Tanganyika, in the tiny Central African republic of Burundi, hundreds of bodies lie in tangled clusters, rotting in the sun. To the south and west, the rolling countryside is half-blackened by fire. In one mountain village, Rotoru, only five people are still alive; an army patrol shot down the women and children and pushed the men over a cliff. In the northern part of the country, a white schoolteacher remarks that he is reluctant to turn his back on his classes to write on the blackboard "because I'm afraid that somebody will be dead...
...shortage of personnel is such that the Italian government cannot even keep the 75 acres of the Roman Forum fully opened. There is a staff of 40 custodians, but with holidays and sick leave it often happens that only four or five guards are left to patrol the whole area at the height of the tourist season. The superintendent of antiquities-who is in charge of the Forum, the Palatine, the Colosseum, and the Baths of Diocletian and Caracalla-has a diminutive annual budget...