Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activities that is published in a number of London papers. Such publicity will doubtless now be limited, and extra protection has already been assigned to the royal family. Nevertheless, there is still understandable resistance to change the traditions of centuries. The royal family has "no intention of living in bulletproof cages," said a palace spokesman. After all, pointed out Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, "it is not possible for public figures to make public appearances clandestinely, so to speak...
...Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city's 5,000 French residents have fled...
While Agnew works, his Government limousine is at his beck, and Secret Service agents keep guard downstairs, eying visitors through bulletproof one-way glass. The fact that the former Vice President has been receiving such perquisites so angered Democratic Congressman John E. Moss that he asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week Comptroller General Elmer Staats wrote Moss that in just under two months the Government had already spent $89,132 on Agnew's staff, $2,075 for the maintenance of the town houses, $877 for office supplies and $905 to move the cartons from...
After he was sworn in, el Lider and his conjugal Vice President went to the Casa Rosada (the Pink House), where he received the presidential sash and the baton of office. He then greeted the crowd from the glass-enclosed, bulletproof balcony overlooking the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires' main square. The government had taken extraordinary precautions to ensure a peaceful transfer of power...
...Kissinger and his children were contentedly paddling around in the pool, behind the expensive bulletproof wind screen, when Nixon himself appeared in his trunks and strolled out into the afternoon sunshine. He got into the pool and then said to Kissinger, "Why don't you and I go down to the other...