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...plot of the scandal is triangular, and the third party was handsome, mus cular Stevan ("the Bull") Markovic, a 31-year-old Serb who worked for Alain as a combination valet, bodyguard and friend. When Delon and Nathalie sallied forth to Parisian boites and discotheques, surrounded by their band of hangers-on, Markovic was always at their side. Wherever Alain went, in fact, Stevan was sure to go. He lived with them in their plush town house at 22 Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick...
...morning was muggy in Saigon, and normally punctual Education Minister Dr. Le Minh Tri was late leaving his villa for the ministry. When a red light halted the minister's Toyota four blocks from the office, Tri, his chauffeur and his bodyguard were more intent on the signal than on the motorbike that drew up alongside them. None was quick enough when one of the bike's two riders tossed a paper bag into the car; as the bike sped away, a hand grenade in the bag exploded. The chauffeur died instantly in the car's flaming...
Starting out as a bodyguard and chauffeur, Valachi survived shifts in power as tricky as ups and downs under the Borgias. He and a partner made $2,500 a week from the slot-machine business. Valachi also ran a numbers racket, a "classy horse room" in White Plains, N.Y., and a loan-shark operation. He bought his own race horses. During World War II, Valachi worked the gasoline black market, earning about $200,000 in three years from finagling with ration stamps. Even at that, he says, "I wasn't so big." After the war, he muscled into jukeboxes...
...Pierson, an undercover man from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, produced the juiciest testimony. Disguised in goggles and blue jeans and astride a rented motorcycle, Pierson had infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader, Jerry Rubin. Pierson told how he had attended a yippie party in suburban Chicago where there was plenty of dope and girls, and informed the shocked committeemen, "They drank, took pills and engaged in sex." As for Rubin Pierson testified, "he said we were to kill...
Charles H. McGlue, chairman of the Wallace fund-raising drive in Massachusetts, issued a warning yesterday to anyone "stupid enough" to demonstrate against Wallace at the Common today. McGlue said that off-duty police and firemen will be on hand to form a bodyguard for their candidate, and that "protesters will find there are a lot of people to take them...