Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slides open his Berretta pistol to make sure it is loaded. Pointing a remote control toward a video screen on the garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper can't get a good shot at me," he says with a defiant grin. "It would take a cruise missile...
...front the firefight continued. Though they were wearing bulletproof vests, the first four commandos to enter the plane were wounded. "Those guys were firing through the walls of the plane -- we received hundreds of rounds in the first minutes," recalled Favier. "I occasionally glimpsed part of the face of one of the shooters through a gap in the door, or a hand that threw a grenade...
...atmosphere is tense inside Netzarim as well. Since Palestinian self-rule began last May, the settlers have been sending their children to school in Gush Khatif in a bulletproof bus. To avoid Arab villages, the vehicle chooses a route that adds an hour to what would be a 30-min. trip. On occasion the driver takes the direct route, but then the bus carries only armed male adults -- to assert the settlers' right, under the self-rule agreements, to travel the road. Netzarim's inhabitants do not complain much, however. "I don't live where it's comfortable," says teacher...
...thick sandstone wall, and three shattered a window and chipped the stone of the press-briefing room near the West Wing. Several bullets burrowed into trees. President Clinton, who was inside the White House watching a football game, was probably the safest person in the area, given the bulletproof glass and scores of Secret Service officers between him and the gunman...
...like lemons between the iron bars. "For three years we have suffered," said Michel Jasmine, a member of the crowd. "But God has been good to us; he has given us back Aristide. Now we face a new life." When the President finally appeared, he was dwarfed by the bulletproof shield that surrounded the podium, another sign of how fragile his safety is in this divided society. A dozen U.S. soldiers with binoculars were perched atop the palace, scanning the crowds. Another eight sharpshooters were crouched on the police station across the street. And somewhere in the capital...