Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour of six Arab capitals, Assad laconically submitted to an essentially meaningless compromise, under which part of the Syrian forces besieging East Beirut would be withdrawn. Lebanese troops would be allowed to help patrol the bridges linking Beirut to the Christian areas in the north - their first active role in the recent fighting...
Tommy Lee Hines, 25, was arrested last May when a woman stenographer complained that he had been peeping into her office window in Decatur, Ala. (pop. 43,000). In the patrol car, a policeman reminded the black prisoner of his Miranda right to a court-appointed lawyer, and Hines waived that right. The police then began questioning Hines about three unsolved rape cases. "How many women did you rape, two or three?" asked one officer. "Three," said Hines...
...battle began on Sept. 30, when a 50-man Syrian patrol was pinned down by snipers in Christian-dominated East Beirut. In an effort to free the trapped patrol, Syrian artillery units let loose the heaviest barrages seen in the city since the Lebanese civil war came to an official end two years ago. "Never in the uninterrupted years of war since 1973 has there been such bitter fighting as in the past week," reported TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis from Beirut. "Throughout the eastern part of the city there is a continuous barrage of exploding shells and rockets. The road...
Chicago has also been zeroing in on pimps this year. Last year the emphasis was on customers, who were picked up at the rate of 40 a night. That campaign has been taken up by local volunteers who have formed the Broadway Hookers Patrol, roaming Chicago's northeast side streets and shining flashlights in the faces of embarrassed johns and copying down their license plate numbers. Out in Joliet, Ill., the local paper hopes to cut down on the trade by printing the names of arrested johns. Included thus far on the Joliet list: a priest and a judge...
Even before the quake struck, mourners were a common sight as families buried the victims killed two weeks ago during protests against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Martial law prevailed, and troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Tehran and eleven other cities to enforce a rigid 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian...