Word: patroller
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...sent in groups of three or four to 2,000 small towns and villages. Instead of moving against strikers, the soldiers began to attack the supply and distribution bottlenecks that are strangling the economy. Some army teams, for example, uncovered caches of hoarded coal and consumer goods. One patrol forced a state farm to harvest 600 tons of potatoes that would otherwise have rotted in the field. Another fixed a village heating system. Walesa gave the operation a limited endorsement when he told the Zyrardow strikers, "We should make order at the bottom through the army...
there are 200-ft.-long "fast patrol boats," destroyers, fiber-glass-and-plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will...
...ready to accelerate and increase the supply of arms to both Egypt and its southern ally, the Sudan. Furthermore, said Haig, the U.S. would take part next month in a "very extensive joint military exercise" with Egyptian forces. The Pentagon also sent out two AW ACS planes to patrol the skies of Egypt and the Sudan against possible Libyan attack, and was considering a bombing run on Egyptian desert targets by U.S. B-52 bombers...
After the fight, which occurred at about 10 p.m., the suspect was tackled by as many as five Harvard police officers, put in the back of a patrol car and taken from the scene...
...villagers snipped packets of Bibles from the submerged barge with rope cutters supplied by the smugglers, then carried them to waiting bikes, buses and trucks (Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire the vehicles). But about four hours after the departure of the Michael, an army patrol turned up unexpectedly in Gezhou village. The patrol stormed the beach, arresting hundreds who were still at work carting off the Bibles. Subsequently, according to Hong Kong reports, most of the prisoners were released...