Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power 44 years ago, government-controlled newspapers published letters and articles critical of the monarchy. One particularly vitriolic magazine accused the Emperor of "defecating on his people." As additional insult, the military forcibly entered Selassie's palace in Addis Ababa and arrested the commander of the Imperial Bodyguard. Most important, the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, which dictates policy to Prime Minister Michael Imru's five-week-old civilian government, announced that it was abolishing four offices through which Selassie had ruled the country since 1930: the Crown Council, which issued the Emperor's decrees; the Imperial Appointments...
...place gives a visitor the feeling that two dozen Hell's Angels are about to wheel in looking for some feral fun. When anonymous death threats were made against Jackson before last year's World Series, he hired beefy Proprietor Tony Del Rio as his temporary bodyguard...
...passing pedestrians and motorists watched in horror, a tall, thin young gunman with clipped chin whiskers leaped from the Ford and raced toward the limousine, firing two pistols as he ran. One shot struck the limousine driver, who collapsed. A bodyguard sitting next to the chauffeur jumped from the front seat with an automatic pistol. He fired one shot, missing; then his weapon jammed. Three quick rounds felled him. The gunman dashed to the limousine and began pulling violently on the doors, trying to get inside. On the back seat huddled Anne, her husband, and a lady in waiting, Rowena...
Within a short time, the princess was carrying on in stiff-upper-lip fashion, issuing a statement in which she expressed concern for those hurt in the incident: McConnell, 46; the driver, Alec Callender, 55; the bodyguard, James Beaton, 30; and the policeman, Michael Hills, 22. All were later reported in satisfactory condition...
...Hobart, Cornell and other colleges during the late sixties. The Black Activism unit focused on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and other groups. Their handiwork included the infiltration of Malcolm X's organization by a man who soon became the black leader's personal bodyguard...