Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos last February, it took him until June 27 to escape. He and another U.S. pilot slogged through the jungle for 20 days, living on roots and bananas, until a North Vietnamese patrol snared Dengler's companion. While the Navyman watched in horror from cover, the Reds summarily beheaded Dengler's buddy. Three days later Dengler was rescued by an Air Force "Jolly Green" helicopter-and of course the Russians immediately claimed that Dengler was a West German "mercenary" in American disguise...
...Enforcement. Mayor Locher decried the Hough upheaval as "shameful and irresponsible," then vacillated until late in the second day before he requested 1,500 National Guardsmen to patrol the district. By the time they arrived, about midnight, the mobs had spectacularly refuted Chief Wagner's ebullient assurance: "This situation will not get out of hand because I've got my men there to see that...
...range A-1 Polaris missiles. Now the Navy is on the way toward fitting most of the 41 missile-equipped subs with the 2,500-mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear energy gives them unparalleled mobility and almost indefinite sea-keeping capacity; based in Spain, Guam and Scotland, they patrol up to 60 days each, returning to port to change their 140-man crews. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union has tried to follow suit, is believed to have up to 15 nuclear-powered subs; each is equipped with three 500-mile-range missiles, and in all likelihood they...
...Aussie patience and tenacity is near legendary. One eleven-man patrol tracked a single Viet Cong sniper silently through dense jungle for 14 hours before it caught and killed him. In their 14-month stint in force in Viet Nam, the Aussies count 146 killed and 192 wounded Viet Cong, to 24 killed and 132 wounded Australians. The total of enemy casualties is probably far too low for the damage the Aussies have done, because of their own stiff accounting standards. No enemy dead is ever claimed unless an Aussie can walk up and put his foot on the body...
...first three weeks, an average of 20 emergencies a night have been handled by the five doctors on patrol, and the public loudly approves the new setup. Other Parisian doctors are as delighted as the emergency patients. The SOS service allows them to choose to stay home even if a personal patient is stricken...