Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast area of Vietnamese countryside surrounding the huge American installations at Bien Hoa, Long Binh and the Tan Son Nhut airbase outside Saigon. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch joined one 3rd Brigade company as it pushed off from a fire base 35 miles east of Saigon to begin a patrol in search of North Vietnamese infiltrators. His report...
...reason is that the Soviet navy has asserted its sway over the ocean almost by default. The British fleet, which once ruled the waves east of Suez, began to withdraw its forces in 1966. The Russians, meanwhile, have gradually created a squadron of ten or more ships on regular patrol, occasionally including nuclear submarines. During the recent war, there were 15 ships in the Soviet flotilla, including two guided missile cruisers...
...city has put its policemen in air-conditioned patrol cars, abated $115,000 in municipal library taxes, built a $350,000 addition to its city hall and started work on a $5,000,000 program for water-system improvements. But the most unusual advancement is one of the country's finest fleets of garbage trucks: four Mercedes-Benz trash haulers that cost $23,000 each. Can Rolls-Royce buses be far behind...
...knot), 1.500-ton freighter returning to Miami after delivering general cargo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Captain José Villa, a Cuban exile who is now a U.S. citizen, reported that as his ship was passing between the West Caicos Islands and the Inaguas in the Bahamas, a Cuban patrol boat demanded that he submit to a search. When he refused to stop, the Cubans opened fire. Villa was badly hurt and so were some members of the 13-man crew, many of whom were Dominicans...
...Biscayne and promised to do his best to secure the captain's immediate release. Later, the U.S. warned Cuba that it would take "all measures under international law" to protect American and other ships from further attacks, and U.S. war planes and naval units began to patrol the Caribbean...