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...TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis talked for two hours with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was the first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice and not unflattering for the Iraqi President to be our driver and tour guide...
...papal visit. On 175 well-groomed acres, more than 300,000 people gathered, a staggering number considering that the entire Scottish Catholic population totals 800,000. Families and groups of youths came with picnic baskets. To soccer-style chants and crescendos of applause, the Popemobile-a custom-made, bulletproof vehicle-rolled up and down aisles carrying the Pope high over the crowds. At Communion time the multitude adopted a respectful silence. By the time dusk had fallen, John Paul was being serenaded by the audience to the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. Michael Goodwillie, an unemployed young...
...standard, the security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras...
...step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove up in a bulletproof yellow Wagoneer. Addressing the crowd, he declared: "The guerrillas are destroying us with their guns...
When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...