Word: bodyguards
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...present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results. As a plotter, Vine could study Rendell; as a student of psychology, she can give lessons to anyone...
...found it easy to take over day-to-day control of the A.N.C. He has had to carry out his onerous public duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie was further damaged when her former chief bodyguard was convicted in a Johannesburg court of murdering a teenage black activist. The judge found that the youth had been beaten at the Mandelas' Soweto home in Winnie's presence. Mandela said the government was smearing his wife in court without giving her a hearing...
...rising career that earned him the monicker "Butcher of Baghdad." He ordered up, presided over and even participated in executions of rivals, some of them once close friends. Two years ago, Saddam ordered the trial of his own son Uday, who had clubbed to death a presidential bodyguard. Eventually Saddam succumbed to appeals for clemency, and Uday was merely sent into brief exile...
...last spring, Dr. Peter Moyer at Boston City was tending to a young man who had been wounded in a shoot-out, presumably over the cocaine the staff found stashed in his underwear. Hovering nearby was the patient's bodyguard, an immense personage who kept his hand on a bulging object inside his jacket. He refused to leave when the security guards ordered him out. When they threatened to call the police, the patient climbed off the treatment table and walked out with the bullet still lodged...
Legal fees are probably Milken's biggest regular expense right now. For a tycoon, he lives a relatively modest life with his wife Lori and three children in a five-bedroom house in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. When Milken was the most powerful financier in America, a bodyguard drove him to his office by 4:30 a.m. in a limousine. But those days are behind him. Under terms of the settlement, the Government has permanently barred Milken from the securities business. Yet if Milken ever does run a little low, he could always call on his brother Lowell...