Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, back in the city, parents alarmed about the increasing number of muggings of schoolchildren on Manhattan's Upper East Side have formed a vigilante group to patrol the streets. The climate of terror suggests that, taking their lead from their neighbors in Scarsdale, the vigilantes may find that the best way to stamp out mugging is to stamp the muggers, possibly across the forehead, so that victims can tell police: "I was just mugged...
...reporting an overview of the fighting and its ramifications as seen from Saigon. David DeVoss, meanwhile, journeyed north to Hué to provide an account of that city's mass evacuation. Rudolph Rauch traveled to the threatened Central Highlands town of Kontum, then spent a night on ambush patrol outside Phu Bai with a group of G.I.s...
...Marines turned the 20 terrified men over to the border patrol, which shipped them back to Mexico. Noting that 2,261 such immigrants were picked up in a recent week, one border patrolman commented: "If those guys tell their buddies about their experiences, we may see a slight decrease in the number of illegal aliens for a few days...
...prodding is apparently winning some converts among police chiefs. About 45 women are currently pounding police beats across the U.S., and the first large-scale experiment in the use of patrolwomen is under way in Washington, D.C., where the metropolitan police force is hiring 100 women for regular patrol duty. Still, resistance to the trend-mostly from officials who think being a patrolman is too dangerous for the "weaker sex"-must be overcome before many more of the nation's 6,000 policewomen (out of 400,000 police) are assigned to the streets...
...Rogers, a burly guard. Nearby Rossmoor Leisure World, in Laguna Hills, is a retirement community surrounded by six-foot-high pink walls and guarded by a security force of 170 unarmed resident patrolmen led by four armed professionals. They man the community's eight carefully guarded gates and patrol its streets round the clock in radio cars...