Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIME. To counter the city's never-ending crime-a theft every three minutes, an assault every twelve, a rape every six hours, a murder every 14-' Lindsay proposed to enlarge the police force and build a "massive mobile patrol system" by doubling the number of patrol cars; a squad car would patrol each block in high-crime areas every two minutes...
...cart lumbers by, while convoys of steel-helmeted Dipo-negoro division units from Sumatra and colorful Kommando Para Raiders from Djakarta in bright vermilion berets race past the empty paddies in armored cars and trucks. In Solo, Moslem student groups in khaki shirts and peaked caps help the army patrol the streets...
Early last week a Greek Cypriot patrol probed into a Turkish orchard, drew immediate fire that wounded one member of the patrol. Within hours, the Greeks launched a massive counterstroke that isolated the Turkish communities from each other. In two days of bitter fire fights, one Turkish Cypriot was killed and five were wounded. The Greek Cypriots suffered six wounded...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...
...Colombia, Castro's man is Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, a bandit-turned-Communist who leads 100 guerrillas responsible for dozens of rural murders. In Guatemala, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant with U.S. training, leads a 150-man band that recently bushwhacked an army patrol, killing two soldiers...