Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first stop at the Hyatt Hotel on Union Square, he was wisked by limousine to the St. Francis Hotel, even though it was an easy one-block walk. The ride took 24 seconds. He sped past one sign: FREE PATTY HEARST, ARREST GERALD FORD! Six agents jogged beside the bulletproof car. Police with binoculars and rifles looked out over the Union Square park from atop high-rise buildings. Two crouched under a lofty FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF UNITED sign...
...wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes are no proof against violence. Political terrorists in Spain dynamited a car carrying Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973, killing him, and only painstaking security has permitted General Francisco Franco to reach his 82nd year. Franco always rides in bulletproof cars along unannounced routes at top speed. During his rare public appearances, the security guards sometimes outnumber the audience...
...small and tranquilly homogeneous nations like Sweden and Austria, life for leaders can still be uncomplicated. Sweden has only one bulletproof limousine, and it is trundled out only when controversial foreign dignitaries pay a visit. One or two plainclothesmen are assigned to Prime Minister Olof Palme on his sojourns about the country, and King Carl XVI Gustaf often goes about his duties with only one security man at his side. Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky has grudgingly permitted one security man to accompany him during his current re-election campaign...
...urging of White House officials. Shortly after Fromme had pointed her loaded pistol at Ford, the Secret Service got a call from a manufacturer of "protective clothing." He offered to show some safety products for the President. Though there has never been much enthusiasm for heavy, uncomfortable bulletproof garments among those responsible for presidential security, the Secret Service nonetheless passed them on to the White House before the President left on his New Hampshire campaign trip...
Ford had decided to take these calculated risks. Though he was not wearing a bulletproof vest in St. Louis, reporters there pressed him on the issue of his security. He declined to comment directly on any specific precautionary measures but went on to say quite forcefully that "it is important for the American people to have an opportunity to see firsthand-close up -their President. I feel you have to balance or weigh the risks as to my own personal security against what is a very important aspect of our political life in America...