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...someone tried to shoot me, but my guys got him and sent him to the gas chamber," one boy wrote. Another, Carmine Esposito, described a chilling scene: "The next day I wanted to see and ride in my bulletproof car, which cost $100,000. When I saw the car I fainted. The car was a black funeral hearse. I saw a coffin. It said, 'Reserved for President Esposito...
...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...
After an abortive attempt to kidnap Princess Anne last year, bulletproof limousine windows and armed drivers were urged upon the royal family-and quietly turned down. Northern Ireland, which seethes with religious civil war, presents the major security nightmare. No member of the royal family has visited the province since 1966, and on the rare occasions when a Prime Minister or Cabinet officer travels to Ulster, security is essentially military, provided by legions of armed, uniformed troops...
...newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively graphic attention that any future .45-cal. assassin would never make the same mistake. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid questions his network's decision to report on President Ford's bulletproof vest and thereby provide what he sees as valuable information to an assassin. Says Sevareid: "People do not have a constitutional right to know every detail...