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...first, the university provided Kerr with a bodyguard. But, arguing that such protection was not appropriate, Kerr dispensed with it. One morning last week the two gunmen entered the administration building unchallenged, made their way to the third floor and waited. At 9: 10 a.m., as Kerr stepped out of the elevator and be gan to walk toward his office, one of the terrorists shot him twice in the head with a gun fitted with a silencer. The gunmen escaped, and at a nearby hospital, Kerr was pronounced dead...
...changing to edgy watchfulness. Metal detectors are appearing in doorways, and if not all of them are connected yet, no one points this out to the unsmiling guards who gravely check their blank video screens, just for practice. Tomasek Juric, the impassive head of security who was once a bodyguard for Tito, flatly guarantees the safety of everyone who will be here. Even at the trials, his operatives were impressive; when someone among the Austrian downhillers set off a cherry bomb in the lobby of their hotel (standard apres-ski joshing among downhillers, who are considered by other skiers...
...only reported bloodshed occurred in the partly completed capital, Abuja. When soldiers went to the official residence to arrest President Shagari, their commander, Brigadier Ibrahim Bako,.was shot dead by a bodyguard. Shortly afterward, Shagari surrendered and was taken into custody. The junta subsequently denied early reports that he had been brought to Lagos in handcuffs...
...something a little more spectacular." But no one has managed to turn excess into success like Liberace, 64, who still reigns as the glitter king of the big-bucks show-biz circuit. To be sure, he still faces the unresolved "palimony" suit filed against him by his former chauffeur-bodyguard Scott Thorson, 24. But nothing is dampening the celebration of his 40th year in show business. For the first time he is taking his Las Vegas show-sets and kaboodle-on the road in April to New York's Radio City Music Hall, where he will be joined...
...from the regime, it succeeded. Since the late 1970s, the elaborate security apparatus?which includes the Mokhabbarat, the secret police organization with some 20,000 to 30,000 members, and Saraya al Difa, a praetorian guard run by Assad's merciless brother Rifaat?has grown more heavyhanded. After a bodyguard reportedly tried to kill Assad with a hand grenade in June 1980 (the President's life was saved when another guard threw himself on the explosive), some 250 to 300 political prisoners were massacred at Tadmur prison. In February 1982, when militants rebelled in Hama, the country's fifth-largest...