Word: bodyguard
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...ignored the first rule of Afghan politics: kill the adversary immediately. Instead, he invited his rival to a Friday afternoon conference at People's House, possibly intending to arrest him. But Amin came to the rendezvous armed with a pistol and the knowledge that Taraki's personal bodyguard, Major Sayed Daoud Taron, had changed masters. It is not known how the Shootout started, but when the smoke cleared an hour later, Amin was in control of the palace and the traitor Taron and dozens of others were dead. On Sunday the Revolutionary Council announced that Taraki had resigned...
...sword-Johnson, 32, not only wriggles out of his elaborate costume but along the way he also executes a ribald torch dance, pours flaming alcohol over his body, swallows a lighted torch and twirls sparklers. The third and final ecdysiast is Larry Slade, 32, who once worked as a bodyguard for the pianist Liberace. To feminine cries of "Take it off, take it all off!" Slade slowly peels away his tight black outfit and then performs a slinky number with a towel under the kaleidoscope lights before he parades among the tables of appreciative women...
...half-eaten salad and .45-cal. shells sprawled the body of short, balding Carmine Galante, 69, shot in the left eye and chest, his teeth still clenching his familiar black cigar. Galante was one of the Mafia's most powerful and feared bosses. Killed with him were a bodyguard, Leonardo Coppola, 40, and Turano, reputedly an adviser to Galante's crime family. The restaurant owner's son John, 17, was wounded. The execution had been carefully set up in advance. While the gunmen blazed away, Caesar Bonventra, 28, a Galante recruit who a Mafia insider said...
MARRIED. Patricia Campbell Hearst, 25, heiress, kidnap victim and convicted bank robber; and Bernard Shaw, 33, a burly cop who was her bodyguard before she went to jail; she for the first time, he for the second; in San Francisco...
Poor Patty Hearst. Kidnaped, tortured, terrorized, brainwashed, on the lam, captured, tried for bank robbery, imprisoned until sprung by presidential commutation, and now this. Engaged to marry San Francisco Policeman Bernard Shaw, a former bodyguard, on April Fools' Day, Hearst had selected a $1,000 gown by New York Designer Frank Masandrea. But last week Patty and parents abruptly chose another. It turned out that exclusive rights to posing Patty in the gown and covering the ceremony had been sold to Look magazine. Alas, United Press International, pitting ingenuity against pocketbook journalism, discovered and printed sketches of the bride...