Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nationalistic Fadayan Islam had threatened to kill him because his government had jailed Fadayan terrorists. Mossadeq reported that he has taken to carrying a revolver. "I have strength and ability to shoot my killer," he said. "What God has decided for me will be accomplished. Therefore I need no bodyguard...
...which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard had been murdered. One day last week, while he was walking up the narrow staircase to his office, Gispert was waylaid and shot through the heart...
...Bologna, Aldo Cucchi, in private life a surgeon who also specialized in studies of hemp workers' diseases. Cucchi had led an Italian partisan unit against the Nazis and Fascists, won his country's highest gold medal for bravery. In the Chamber of Deputies, he acted as a bodyguard for Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...