Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remaining night watchmen will continue their present duties inside the dormitories while the University Police will patrol the grounds...
...squad of patrolmen and police cars will patrol the Radcliffe Quadrangle, Yard, and Graduate Center, Robert Tonis, chief of the University Police, said last night. The number of men to be assigned to Radcliffe has not yet been decided...
...said that although the Harvard police carry guns while the Radcliffe nightwatchmen do not, both groups are constables and can make arrests. There will, he added, be fewer watchmen to patrol inside dormitories after the change...
...Near An Khe, a patrol from the U.S. 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" nabbed a Viet Cong, who fingered his home base in a nearby, boxlike valley. The 101st promptly ringed the Viet Cong on three sides of the valley, while 2nd Battalion Commander Colonel Wilfred Smith flew his three companies into the valley's portal by helicopter to close the trap. Trouble was, the dried-up quilt of rice paddies chosen for landing was hard by the V.C. camp. So the Screaming Eagles got the hot welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz...
...Westmoreland last week tightened the leash on his weaponry still further with another memorandum demanding greater caution. Hard on its heels came an Air Force decree tightening control over some 200 "free-strike zones" at which pilots had been free to blast away at will. Henceforth FAC planes will patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep of the Ben Cat area fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 24) was canceled on the outside chance that some stray bombs...