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...permit the presidential limousine to travel at speeds discouraging to snipers. The agents also consult with local lawmen about individuals in the area who pose security risks; some of these names appear on the Service's master potential-assassin list. The advance team may ask police plainclothesmen or Secret Servicemen from the nearest field office to place such suspects under surveillance. Hotel employees the President might come in contact with are carefully checked out, as are the kitchens where his food will be prepared. The agents make sure that hospitals in the area have an ample supply of blood...
...flying wedge" technique to shove themselves and the Chief Executive through a swarm of people. There are also at least a dozen agents positioned along the President's walking route keeping a wary eye on the crowd. If the President is headed for an indoor location, other Secret Servicemen with electronic devices reinspect the room for bugs or bombs...
Last week some 50 Secret Servicemen, FBI agents and California police were frantically trying to determine if Squeaky had acted in a plot with other members of the Manson family. They now number about 60 men and women, mostly in their mid-20s, who are living on the loose, mainly in California, and who are still convinced that the sly and Satan-eyed Manson is the second Christ. Searching for evidence, investigators carefully went through the attic apartment in downtown Sacramento that Squeaky had occupied with Sandra Good, 31, another Manson cultist. In recent months, the two women had been...
...past 25 years, nearly 50 United Nations soldiers have been killed on peace-keeping duty along Arab-Israeli cease-fire lines. Servicemen who have spent time baking in the tin-roofed shacks that serve as U.N. observation posts do not recommend the job highly. Up to 200 U.S. civilians will probably be manning surveillance stations in the wastelands of the Sinai before too long and Israeli officials are reassuring: they insist that the biggest problem is likely to be sheer boredom...
Torrijos has tried to restrain Panamanians, particularly the country's 24,000 volatile students, from launching assaults on the 39,200 "Zonians"-American servicemen, their families and employees of the Panama Canal Zone Co. "If it was not for this direct contact between Torrijos and the students, there could be a confrontation," says one young Panamanian activist. Torrijos' own reassuring refrain is that "we should not look at things negatively." He has tried to enlist the support of members of the Organization of American States and Third World countries of the United Nations behind his sovereignty campaign...