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...extremists, underscored the grim reality that diplomats have become prime targets for terrorists. By and large, security measures to protect the ambassadors are often surprisingly lax. Straub's parents said their son had told them of repeated bomb threats against the ambassadorial residence. Yet the ambassador had no bodyguard, the limousine was not equipped with bulletproof windows, and his residence was unguarded. Sykes' apparent disregard for his own safety seemed all the more astonishing since he had recommended tighter security for diplomats after investigating the assassination of the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs...
...million is 60% Christian, Amin channeled the government's meager economic resources into building up his military dictatorship. He ordered repeated religious and tribal purges in the army and imported numbers of mercenaries, including Nubian soldiers from the Sudan. He also recruited Palestinian guerrillas for his personal bodyguard...
...barely a word. Stories about his superiority complex are numerous. "I saw him melt the stars off a four-star general, one at a time," remembers an aide with awe. The aide recalls something else: a Schlesinger mean streak that sometimes puts people into paralysis. One night a Schlesinger bodyguard noticed as he drove his boss to a formal dinner party that the Secretary had forgotten to put on his black bow tie. Even as Schlesinger walked in the door, the man considered calling him back, but he was just too scared...
Some time in April, Patty plans to marry San Francisco Policeman Bernard Shaw, 33, her bodyguard while she was free on bond pending her appeals, but she has not decided whether to take his name. "I don't anticipate anyone calling me Patty Shaw," she said. Asked where she could go to escape being Patty Hearst, she replied with a tough edge to her voice: "I don't see anything wrong with being Patty Hearst...
Bacall sat perched on a stool signing books for a little over an hour, separated by a policeman, a bodyguard and two Coop officials from about 200 onlookers of all ages...