Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria's militant nationalists, this was high treason, and Ali Chekkal was warned that his days were numbered. He decided that it was wiser not to return to Algiers, settled in a Paris hotel under the eyes of a three-man bodyguard provided day and night by the French government...
...great painting of The Last Meeting of Lee tind Jackson, appearing in the book section [ May 6], belongs to the estate of the late Colonel J. B. Sinnott, C.S.A., an aide and bodyguard of General Stonewall Jackson...
Later, Sukarno received his colonels at the palace, in a backslapping meeting reminiscent of a class reunion. When photographers' flashbulbs popped around Sukarno's onetime bodyguard, Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, who had taken power in East Indonesia, Sumual protested in Dutch: "My God, you all think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...
...week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian political and military leaders...
...corridors and rumors as well as most cardinals. At the Vatican, Correspondent Rospigliosi is Prince Rospigliosi, a title that dates back to the Holy Roman Empire. One of his ancestors was Pope Clement IX (1667-69). His grandfather, Camillo Rospigliosi. was a captain of the Pope's personal bodyguard from 1878 till 1915. Title and ancestry are useful in covering the Vatican, but Correspondent Rospigliosi can also count on his vast knowledge of Vatican lore and the confidences of well-placed sources acquired over the years since he first started covering the Holy...