Word: patroller
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Being the hero, Evans says, gives him “a rush.” So, sometimes, he just drives out to patrol...
...efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft-engine maker, does more business with the Pentagon than it does with the British Ministry...
...suggesting physical violence, just verbal intervention and a show of disapproval. I know that can work because I used to do it when I was a little girl. Nobody ever hurt me or any of the other kids who worked with me on my anti-bully patrol. Somehow my parents helped me know that I could and should do that. Parents should teach their children to be protective of those youngsters who can't defend themselves. Then maybe there would be fewer incidents in which kids take guns to school to wreak vengeance on their bullying tormentors...
Meanwhile, the government is also being criticized for the continuing unrest along its northern border with Lebanon. A suicide car bomber drove into an Israeli armored patrol in southern Lebanon last week, wounding two Israelis and killing one Lebanese civilian. Israel quickly retaliated with an air strike on the headquarters of a radical Lebanese group that has claimed responsibility for seven car-bomb attacks on Israeli positions. Peres is said to be ready to adopt stronger antiterrorist measures. "There is no place for incitement and hysteria," Peres said. But, he promised, "there will be no compromise" when it comes...
...easily avoidable fiasco began with the inexplicable decision by two Border Patrol officers that Medvid had not been seeking asylum and should be returned to his ship. The agents did not speak Ukrainian, so they telephoned a translator in New York, who interviewed the nervous sailor while one agent listened. The interpreter, Irene Padoch, insisted that Medvid had made it clear that he was seeking asylum "to live in an honest country" and that she told this to the agents. Nonetheless, they signed an order that Medvid be returned to his ship...