Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These businessmen are free to raise their prices to base-period levels. But there is at least an equal chance that a price raise is not legitimate, particularly if it is tacked on by a small operator. With only 3,000 IRS workers exclusively assigned to explain and patrol Phase 11, enforcement at the local level has been spotty at best...
...strip" to Steinstucken and evacuated 32 political refugees; a day later, he created what may be the U.S. Army's smallest permanent armed garrison operating openly on foreign soil-a post staffed by three military policemen, who live in the basement of the mayor's house and patrol Steinstucken's perimeter...
...because arsonists of the I.R.A. have been setting buses afire to lure security forces into ambush. After 10 p.m., all main roads leading to I.R.A. strongholds are closed to private cars, and no taxi will go near them. One who goes in on foot will be searched by patrolling British troops, or stopped half a dozen times in half a mile by I.R.A. women vigilantes, or even get caught in a sudden crossfire. Every night in the slums off Falls Road, all the walls at street corners are painted white to head height so that I.R.A. snipers can more easily...
...There are only about 500 of the gunmen, but they are well armed with tommy guns, rifles and gelignite, and they hold the initiative with their hit-and-run raids. "It's bloody Dodge City in there," said a corporal of the Green Howards regiment on a midnight patrol at the edge of the Ardoyne district, "full of cowboys wanting to be heroes. They'll shoot at any bloody thing...
...second system of justice for the poor, for members of racial minorities, for the young people of this country, and a third one for those who act against the people subject to the second for the police in Chicago, for the national guardsmen in Ohio for the highway patrol in Jackson State," he continued...