Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, skiing may be safer (fatalities are very rare) than staying home, where more than 4,000,000 Americans were disabled and 27,000 died in accidents last year. Moreover, for those who are hurt on the hill, emergency treatment is usually prompt and professional. The National Ski Patrol has 20,000 members trained in mountain rescue techniques, and all U.S. ski areas are policed by paid patrolmen or dedicated volunteers. As a result, most ski casualties are spotted, given first aid and whisked off the slopes in toboggans within minutes of a serious spill...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
Pollution Patrols. Lee is moving just as fast to curb industrial and marine pollution. Jurong's multitudinous factories are being equipped with antismog devices on their smokestacks, and Singapore Harbor is policed by special patrol boats, armed with cameras, that constantly look for polluting ships. Once the evidence is collected, detergents are immediately spread on the water to absorb oil slicks or other pollutants. Offenders are heavily fined...
Another law professor wasn't so lucky-"shot to death by gunmen at one of the capital's main intersections. A police patrol car was parked at the scene but made no effort to intercept the killers." This sort of thing is quite common in Guatemala, where 2,000 to 4,000 people (Committee of Returned [Peace Corps] Volunteers, Guatemala Perspective. [hereafter referred to as CRV], "The Violent Polarization of Left and Right in Guatemala," 1968, p. 1) have been assassinated by the extra-legal, government-supported vigilante groups. But since the founder of the largest such organization became president...
...Power. Despite his Orwellian unperson status, Biermann continues to turn out songs and poems. He lampoons the Bilroelephanten (bureaucratic elephants), who quake in fear before his guitar, or pokes fun at the effects of the Wall on East Germans ("When I die, I'll become a guard and patrol the border between heaven and hell. Show your pass, please.") In Der Dra-Dra, he attacks what he describes as "parasitic power of all sorts"-which suggests Franco and Papadopoulos as well as Ulbricht and Brezhnev...