Word: patrolling
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Schools & Fruit Trees. A joint operation of Thailand, which contributes $500,000 a year, and of the U.S., which kicks in another $500,000 a year (mostly in planes and technical assistance), Thailand's counterinsurgency effort is handled by the country's 6,500-man Border Police Patrol. In 2½ years, the patrol has helped build 66 village schools, 60 small airstrips for communication and supplies and scores of medical-aid stations and has dispensed friendly advice on everything from crops and animal husbandry to personal hygiene. In the process, the border patrol has welded...
Working mainly with the more numerous Meo, Yao, Lisu, Lahu and Akha tribesmen, the border patrol has built two major "development centers" and three more are under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag...
...embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform that the demonstrators were no more welcome in August than in April: on Monday the patrol care observing the walk disappeared momentarily outside of Marshfield, allowing 40 men and teenagers to set upon the demonstrators, briefly beat them, and destroy a number of their signs...
...Marshfield, however, the lone patrol car accompanying the peace walk disappeared briefly, allowing about 40 men and boys time to assault the marchers and break up a number of their signs...
When the demonstration left the Boston Common at about 12:35 p.m. Saturday, there were about 64 marchers and about 50 policemen protecting them. The size of the police contigent was reduced about a half hour later to several patrol cars and six motorcycles. The march's size, too, began to diminish, and at the end of the day about 25 people remained...