Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1966, there have been periodic reports-few of them confirmed-of G.I. defectors in Viet Nam. In 1968 an American reconnaissance patrol happened on a Viet Cong squad that was led by a sandy-haired American who wore a red sash and carried a Communist AK-47 assault rifle; killed in the subsequent shootout, the American was identified as a Marine deserter. The latest sighting of a suspected defector occurred just three weeks ago near Kontum: villagers reported a visit by a Viet Cong patrol that included one very tall man who appeared to be a black...
...patrol cameras, which last month went into operation for a one-year test period, may have already reduced crime in Mount Vernon. During the first three weeks after their installation, there were no known crimes committed along the street, compared with four during the same period last year. The cameras are on duty 24 hours a day, remote-controlled by a patrolman at police headquarters, several blocks away...
...Brother. Defending the $47,000 cost of the electronic surveillance system. Police Captain Michael Court notes that "it would take three men to patrol that area over a 24-hour period. That's $30,000 a year, so in about 19 months we break even." The police force in Hoboken, N.J., plans to install a similar system by mid-June, and Sylvania reports that 50 other police departments have requested demonstrations. Thus the TV patrol may well appear in high-crime areas across the nation, peering through darkened stores and examining dark alleyways. To some, that prospect invites comparison...
...suspended Professor H. Bruce Franklin (TIME, March 15). They sabotaged the library by removing or damaging 11,000 catalogue cards, pulling books from shelves and pouring honey on them. Since then, a different, previously unheard-of radical group has claimed credit for the fire-bombing of an empty patrol car belonging to university police. No group has yet admitted vandalizing a campus drugstore, firing armor-piercing bullets at an electric power transfer station on campus, or setting fires in the car of a law student who is defending radical demonstrators and in several dormitories, including one housing black students...
...from the fringe of the ghetto to Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin: "We had to put our crews on 24-hour shifts to protect the property. No private security patrol would take us as a client. We feared for the safety of our employees...