Word: patrollers
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When Soviet patrol boats seized a fleet of North Korean fishing vessels operating in the restricted northern Pacific early last month, the Soviets themselves were caught by surprise. The twelve ships flying North Korean flags in fact belonged to Japan, and most of the crewmen under arrest were Japanese...
Healy is wading into turbulent shallows. He is holding a series of dinners with branch librarians, and they are fast stripping him of any illusions. Videos get lifted wholesale, and the staff must be on constant patrol to keep drug dealers, often teenagers themselves, from preying on children. When the building closes, the librarian-baby-sitter must figure out what to do with very little kids whom no one has claimed...
...Tuesday, the day the theoretical-physics seminar met at FIAN ((the physics institute where Sakharov still worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
They ordered the driver to follow the patrol car to the Procurator's Office on Pushkin Street. KGB agents escorted me to the fourth floor, where "chats" about my activities had taken place in 1973 and 1977. I asked Alexander Rekunkov, the deputy procurator-general, "Why didn't you send a summons instead of shanghaiing...
IRCA was also supposed to increase the ranks of border-patrol agents within the INS to as many as 6,000. Congress never provided the funding, however, and today's 3,800 agents are overworked and demoralized. INS agents are now up in arms over a proposed reorganization scheme that will merge the prestigious antismuggling units into the larger bureaucracy. "Here in Los Angeles, the alien capital of America, the Act has had no impact in deterring smuggling," asserts Thomas Gaines, a 30-year INS veteran who retired recently as head of the largest antismuggling unit. "Enforcement is an absolute...