Word: bulletproofing
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...CENT: BULLETPROOF...
...white bulletproof Alfa Romeo carrying Antonio Cassarà, 38, the head of Palermo's homicide squad, turned into the courtyard of the housing complex, Laura Cassarà waved to her husband from their apartment window. Cassarà and his two escorts sprinted up the steps leading to the building, but before the policeman could turn the doorknob, three Kalashnikov submachine guns sprayed a flood of bullets from the windows of three floors of a building across the street. Cassarà and one of his bodyguards died in the fusillade...
...stump in Cebu City, an opposition stronghold 375 miles south of Manila, however, the President and his wife appeared vigorous and eager for their fourth election in 20 years. Wearing a bulletproof vest under his traditional white barong tagalog after reports of an assassination plot, the President held forth for 90 minutes before 3,000 cheering supporters at the Cebu Coliseum. Marcos promised them that he would not take the election lightly: "I always run scared." Last week political observers were asking whether voters in the Philippines will once more offer Marcos their support on voting day. Many were also...
...fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room. In many rooms along these long hospital corridors, soldiers tell similar tales of grief and pain. Across the hall, Sergeant Chris Chilles, 28, a California National Guardsman, says...
...Jackson must be 50 Cent, twenty-four/seven. The problem is that 50 Cent is made up. He is nearly a cartoon—a hulking black superman who performs thug love to hundreds of women, parties incessantly while not drug dealing or murdering; and who, most importantly, is bulletproof. He cannot live up to that image, because it is impossible. Yet he and the public will continue to feed into it, until he is either exposed as fake or sadly forced to live up to his image and die in a hail of bullets...