The Army patrols were an indication of the stepped up vigilance, although police lifted their recommendation, issued after the bombing, that people stay away from the city center.
"We have stepped up vigilance in all corners, but our people are very hospitable," said Musa Ecweru, Uganda's state minister for disasters.
As American officials stepped up vigilance at ports of entry, some European farmers complained of a double-whammy: their beef is already outlawed here because of mad cow disease.
Security levels can be stepped up, vigilance encouraged and there will be inevitable questions as to whether the killers were on someone's radar and should have been stopped.
A White House official said that while the government had already stepped up its vigilance in advance of the anniversary, "the president directed the counterterrorism community to redouble its efforts in response to this credible but unconfirmed information".
The police, meanwhile, are already stepping up their vigilance against perceived eyesores, like the unlucky beggar I saw being escorted away after he had squatted on the sidewalk on Nanjing Road for momentary relief from the heat in the plume of chill air that streamed out of a downtown shopping mall.
Mizuho promised on Monday to step up its vigilance against doing business with mobsters, saying it would share its detailed client databases with affiliates like Orico.
Toyota's president, Katsuaki Watanabe, has issued a plea to employees to step up their vigilance on quality while the company tries to grab the lead on hybrids, of which it has sold more than 1.25 million around the world.
The solution -- city and county each contributing $80 a week -- seems reasonable, but the need to post a guard occupies one of Sheriff Dean Albers's 42 deputies for half a day, every day, at a time when the department has been told to step up its vigilance by "watching for suspicious low-flying planes and strange-looking people in the wrong place," as Sheriff Albers said.
