Word: swatting
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...walking back to Widener Library through the rain on Tuesday night, when I was confronted by three television vans, a SWAT team, and a crowd of about sixty people. My first thought, having seen America Under Siege the week before, was that some kind of terrorist-hostage situation was unfolding. Life, as usual turned out to be less dramatic than fiction: Sylvester Stallone was accepting an award at the Hasty Pudding...
...crowd of people was a crowd of Vietnam vets protesting Rambo, and the SWAT team, I suppose, was there in case things got out of hand, which things showed no signs of doing. I stopped for a moment, although ankle-deep in slush, to assess the situation. At the time, it really seemed to me that these people must have something better to do on such a rainy night than to protest a movie. The demonstrators waved their signs. From an upper window in the Hasty Pudding building, three students yelled "Rocky, Rocky, Rocky" at them...
United Airlines and Dow Chemical, among others, have set up corporate SWAT teams made up of employees who are trained to take charge in the event of an unexpected disaster. Attention to detail is a crucial component of most contingency plans. Dow has produced a 20-page program for communicating with the public during a disaster, right down to such particulars as who is going to run the copy machines. Many companies designate a single corporate spokesman to field all inquiries from the press. A list may be drawn up of those executives to be notified in emergency situations...
...squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their first bold strokes: dressed as police SWAT teams, they began invading the homes of Miami drug dealers. Besides stealing cash and dope, the raiders made a point of pistol-whipping, torturing and occasionally raping their victims, who, given their business, could not call police. Last year two drug dealers shot two Dade SWAT team members, thinking they...
...Mexico with a five-hour-a- day regimen of physical exercise, twice as hard as he works out for a typical Rocky film. In addition to rowing, weight lifting and jogging, Stallone took archery lessons at home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and worked out with the Los Angeles police SWAT team...