Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to the courthouse and the hearings were televised, Los Angeles heard two dramatically different stories. Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler, seven months pregnant, testified that her husband was hurrying her to the hospital after she began having labor pains, which, it turned out, were false. When Deadwyler noticed a pursuing patrol car, he voluntarily pulled over to let it escort them. Officer Bova, according to her testimony, put his service revolver through the passenger window and pulled the trigger, shooting Deadwyler in the stomach. He then turned impassively away. Four Negro witnesses agreed with her that the car had come...
...ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple of artillery battalions, and eight Hawker Hunter jets...
Sardines & Church Steeples. The aerial patrol symbolizes the proliferating use of helicopters (see following color pages). The machines remain costly to buy (minimum: $23,750) and tricky to fly, but coptermakers at last have overcome most of the bugs that for 25 years gave their industry more promise than progress. Rotor craft have not only changed the whole nature of the Viet Nam war but now stand on the threshold of a huge market at home...
...learning counter-insurgency, now a standard part of both the military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled "Dukong river." The hamlet depicted in the sketch is protected by fortification marked...
...pagodas-spread out through the city as snipers. They were everywhere, firing at anything, and being answered fatally by the heavy firepower of Ky's troops. "Dodge City," grunted a Vietnamese marine. When one grenade-throwing rebel was captured, the loyalist officer in charge of the patrol wasted no words; he whipped out his pistol and shot the rebel through the chest...