Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows how many prisoners were involved, but they took over a wing of the prison that normally houses more than 500 men. As at Attica, state troopers and prison guards donned bulletproof vests and helmets in preparation for an armed attack on the inmates. Inside, prisoners drew up a list of 15 demands, covering improved food and medical care, educational and rehabilitation programs, religious freedom, increased mail privileges. Three newsmen allowed into the cellblock at the prisoners' request heard echoes of Attica in the inmates' demands. Associated Press Correspondent Carl Zeitz, one of the three, wrote later: "Inmates...
There were occasional flashes of the familiar Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle...
Despite his penchant for secrecy, aliases and bulletproof cars, and his aversion to photographers and public appearances, his notoriety as a superspy has always made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political...
...remaining "Soledad brothers," as they are known, Fleeta Drumbo and John Clutchette, stripped off their shirts in court in an attempt to expose bruises from beatings that they said they had received after the uprising. Two days later, in a tense, spectator-filled courtroom newly equipped with a bulletproof barrier between spectators and the bench, another hearing took place. When Judge Carl Allen repeatedly denied defense motions to investigate the beating charge, Mrs. Doris Maxwell, Clutchette's mother, screamed, "You ain't no honorable judge!" Bailiffs, later reinforced by helmeted San Francisco policemen, moved into the spectator section...
...reduce the legal age for betting from 21 to 18, and 3) expand racing and parimutuel betting to Sundays. Samuels, a self-made millionaire who ran unsuccessfully in New York's Democratic gubernatorial primary before taking the unsalaried O.T.B. job, is as impenetrable to criticism as the bulletproof glass in his betting offices. To the charge that O.T.B. is merely a legalized way of siphoning money away from the poor, he says, "Who's to decide what's gambling and what's entertainment? It's going on. It's here...