Word: patrollers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soccer terraces are fertile soil for the neofascist recruiters. In Spain, ultrarightist youths have combined a fondness for Nazi paraphernalia and street violence with a rabid attachment to their home teams, venting their anger on football-field rivals. In Madrid, local matchups resemble a military exercise, as armed police patrol the grounds to separate hooligan bands. Recently, three members of one Barcelona fan club, who frequently boasted of neofascist opinions, were sentenced to 15-year prison terms for killing a young supporter of a rival club...
Even now, Wright goes on part-time anti-sleaze patrol for the President. In Arkansas last December she persuaded a state trooper to sign an affidavit saying the President had never offered jobs in return for silence about his alleged trysts as Governor. Wright is also a prime source for reporters looking for dirt on Clinton's pesky accusers. But her expertise in Clinton arcana is costing her too. Friends say her lobbyist's salary won't cover the hefty legal fees already incurred complying with an expected subpoena from Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske...
...this hazy spring morning in the Bronx. The sun shines invitingly; the trees' buds are bursting open -- in short, a perfect day for cutting school. But hooky players beware: New York City police department van No. 5932, piloted by Officers Michael DiAngelo and Walter Krajeski, is on patrol, part of a new, '50s-style anti-truancy program launched by new, '50s-style mayor Rudolph Giuliani...
...world petroleum market. The very idea of limited oil sales for Iraq is anathema to the U.S. But Washington will reluctantly go along with the Security Council plan because the U.S. does not want to offend Turkey, an important friend that allows American jets based on its soil to patrol Iraqi airspace. "Turkey is a good ally," says an American diplomat at the U.N. "We are sympathetic to Turkey's needs...
...local basketball player who was shot with an AK-47 by another teenager outside a supermarket; the 7-year-old fatally wounded while walking to school with his mother; the Chicago Housing Authority police officer who was killed by an AR-15 as he walked back to his patrol car at the end of his shift. "At the end of reading this list of bloody crimes, I had to conclude these guns have no purpose but to kill a lot of people very rapidly," said Hyde. "It wasn't like falling off a horse on the road to Damascus...