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They were vastly dissimilar men-a polished Cabinet minister, a tough bodyguard, a wealthy newspaper publisher, a confirmed criminal and a veteran Socialist politician. One chilly day last week all five met the same fate: they mounted a scaffold at Seoul's Sodaemun prison and were hanged by the neck until dead...
There is one MfS unit with a special and rather embarrassing function; it is the bodyguard section, 6,300 strong, which has the single purpose of protecting East German Communist leaders from their own people...
...himself right in the capital of Saigon. Only nine weeks at his new post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle as Nolting's bodyguard pumped three shots in their direction. Since the bomb was a dud, Nolting went home to lunch unharmed...
...most preoccupied men around were a pair of non-Austrians: U.S. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and a 6-ft., muscular Russian general, Nikolai Zakharov, chief of Khrushchev's bodyguard. They huddled with each other and with Austrian officials, making program and security arrangements. Little trouble is expected from the thousands of Hungarian and other Iron Curtain refugees. Those who have not already migrated are contentedly working in unemployment-free Vienna. Reinforcements moved in for the Marine guard at the U.S. embassy. In deference to Austrian neutrality, they took off their blouses and military caps while traveling...
Only slightly less active than the Imam's friends have been the Imam's ene mies. Three weeks ago, a trusted bodyguard shot the old man down as he was visiting cronies in the Hodeida Hospital. Eight Italian surgeons were rushed from Rome, and the Imam's probable heir, ambitious Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, summoned all governors and deputy governors to confer with him in Hodeida. Since such meetings usually precede the election of a new Imam, many Yemenis were convinced that the Defend er of the Faith was dying. The prudent people...