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...which the family lived. When police declined to drive away crack users who had set up a drug den in the building's basement, Olmo picked up a baseball bat and chased them out himself. He then bought walkie-talkies with his own money and started a tenants' patrol, which has since expanded into a neighborhood watch committee. Next he persuaded his neighbors to lease the building from the city and manage it themselves. "We've tried to improve the neighborhood so we could live here," says Mabel. "Rents everywhere else are too high...
...says the only way to solve Central Square's problem is to get the homeless off the streets--a solution which the city is ill-equipped to implement. Presenting his complaints to the City Council on Monday, he called on the city to put three officers on constant patrol in the area to enforce loitering and anti-vagrancy ordinances...
From his office at 5 Western Ave., just on the edge of Central Square proper, Police Chief Anthony G. Paolillo has an ideal vantage point from which to survey the area's problems. And despite the three patrol routes which he says already go through the square, he doesn't see a cure coming out of the police department...
Technology may soon revolutionize U.S. attempts to patrol the flow of people, drugs and guns across its 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The sensors employed by the Border Patrol tend to be tripped off by every passing cow and coyote. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is developing a sophisticated new array of sensors that can transmit photographs of a trespasser to a central monitoring station, indicate direction and speed of movement, and also measure the presence of metal, a signal that the target is armed...
...Defense Department and Congress intensively, NASA portrayed the shuttle as all things to all people. The winged craft would be reusable and thus economical, a safe, reliable space truck with many different roles. In as many as 60 flights a year, it would loft or capture satellites and patrol the skies for the military. Furthermore, NASA assured the White House, it could lead to the direct employment of 8,800 people...