Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cozy glimpse of a madcap prince's private life, Ali Khan's longtime (19 years) chauffeur and bodyguard, Emrys Williams, disclosed in his memoirs that life with Ali was rarely dull. Things hummed more than usual during Ali's high-octane fling at marriage with mercurial Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. Recalls Williams: "The day after she had dined ... at the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, I realized that Rita was determined to remodel the Château de l'Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids...
...secret yielded by code No. 3 was a Soviet spy ring linked with many a respected name in army and police circles. Premier Fazlollah Zahedi himself ordered the arrest of his chief of bodyguard as a Soviet agent. Another prize catch: Lieut. Colonel Jamsheed Mobasheri, an artillery officer regarded by his fellow officers as something of a mathematical genius. Upon his arrest, Mobasheri ripped a rusty nail from the wall and tried to open an artery. Mobasheri, it seemed, was the Red agent who developed the three codes. Another Red agent was the officer assigned to clear appointees to sensitive...
...famed crusading Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME Aug. 16 et seq.). The three gunmen who ambushed him only managed to shoot Lacerda in the foot; but they killed an air force major who accompanied him. In blazing editorials Lacerda charged that members of President Vargas' bodyguard had done the job at the order of Vargas' son Luthero. The air force demanded that Vargas must go. Vargas refused. But last week the army, final arbiter of Brazilian power, decided that Vargas must be asked to resign to restore public confidence in the government...
President Getulio Vargas was in trouble. Every new clue to the assassination of an Air Force major and the shooting of Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME, Aug. 16) seemed to point straight to the presidential palace. First the driver of the getaway cab identified a longtime Vargas bodyguard as one of the gunmen, but the man fled the palace before police could pick him up. Then angry air force officers, who staged their own investigation, seized another gunman and leaked a report that he claimed to have done the deed on order of Luthero Vargas, son of the President...
Lacerda insisted, however, that he knew where they came from: "Perhaps as a newspaperman I can't make this accusation, but as the victim I can. I am sure the assassins were members of Getu lio Vargas' personal bodyguard." Replied President Vargas: "I considered Carlos Lacerda my greatest enemy. No man has done so much harm to my government. Now he is my enemy No. 2, because No. 1 is the man who shot...