Word: patroller
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...response to the crisis I've read. While I understand something of the government's caution, I am impatient for us to act. We must retaliate. This country cannot afford to show any weakness or indecision. The borders should be closed and troops stationed at them. We must vigilantly patrol our coasts and airspace until further notice. As far as I'm concerned, we should already be bombing Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan until there is nothing left but rubble-filled craters. BETH GRAY Los Angeles...
...Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue is on patrol. Its job is to eradicate sin, which, as defined by the totalitarian government of Afghanistan, includes simply listening to music. The Taliban, a collection of former theology students who took over Kabul in 1996, is best known for destroying ancient Buddhist statues and restricting the rights of women. It insists that there is a hadith (a record of the Prophet's sayings) warning people not to listen to music lest molten lead be poured into their ears on Judgment Day. Until then, the Taliban police are wreaking...
...therefore expand the earning potential of an expatriate community that will send home an estimated $9 billion this year alone. It would also allow these workers to travel back and forth, which is far too dangerous right now for most of those lucky enough to have eluded the Border Patrol once - and that cements the ties to home, and probably the southward flow of household capital, too. Politically, the current immigration regime is perceived by Mexicans as brutal, inhumane and an assault on their dignity, and that compounds a profound sense of resentment south of the border. The basic message...
...While on patrol in JFK Park, an HUPD officer noticed an individual urinating in public. The officer arrested Greg Dellinger, 38, of Boston for indecent exposure...
...operation would probably be carried out by elite units, like the French squad that last year nabbed Karadzic's top lieutenant, Momcilo Krajisnik, from his home in Pale. A spokesman for the NATO force in Bosnia, Captain Andrew Coxhead, concedes that ordinary peacekeepers who encounter him during a routine patrol might not be equipped for the job. "You don't want to mess with these guys without sufficient force," he says, remembering an incident in Foca when an attempt to bag a suspect went wrong; the fugitive blew himself up with a hand grenade and injured four German soldiers...