Word: patroled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dawn last Tuesday," reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, "an army patrol in the Turf Lodge area brought in what looked like much of the arms stock of C Company, 1st Battalion of the I.R.A.'s Belfast Brigade, complete with a framed coat of arms giving the company commander's nom de guerre as Martin Forsythe. A patrol had entered the house on Norglen Crescent shortly after 2 a.m. A boy opened the door and immediately admitted that arms were hidden inside. Sure enough, twelve rifles were neatly stacked in a cupboard, and about 6,000 rounds of ammunition...
After midnight, Bogside TV sets stay tuned for another sport: listening to British army headquarters issuing orders and receiving reports from units on patrol. The army's transmitters happen to be on the same frequency as a local TV station. British HQ is aware of this. Messages that could tip off Provo patrols are cut short by clipped instructions "to use other means" of communication. Such lapses as "We don't want another calamity like Lima's [code name for a British patrol] shooting on our own men" or "Can you claim a hit?" are met with...
...operations in the North are headquartered here in Chiangmai, Thailand's second largest city. Reportedly housed in a two-story, antennae-studded building in the American consulate compound, agents work with the Thai Army, the paramilitary Border Patrol Police, and other Thai and American contacts to keep tab on the North's sometimes rebellious hill tribes, Burmese rebels operating out of Thailand, and "unfriendly" forces in Laos...
...Thai Army, the Border Patrol Police, and the CIA can thus phone up their counterparts anywhere in Thailand--and Indochina as well--on a system independent of the civil telephone lines...
...Kans., demanded $455,000, a parachute and handcuffs from the airline. Airline officials managed to gather the funds and equipment at the San Diego airport. On the return trip to Oakland, Goodell was talked out of his adventure by his lone hostage, Captain Lloyd Turner of the California Highway Patrol...