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...Saturday to begin preparing for Aristide's arrival. The team will act as trainers and advisers to a 60-man Haitian bodyguard force whose job is to keep Aristide alive. As a form of foreign aid, the U.S. will send in armored vehicles, including "one suitable for presidential travel," bulletproof vests and handguns at a cost of $2 million...
...streets within days. "That's the main stress" Seattle Detective Nathan Janes says, "like the fact that the violent criminal doesn't even go to jail." He recalls a thug who attacked a fellow officer a few years ago, wrestled his gun away, jammed it under the officer's bulletproof vest and tried to fire. "He wanted to kill him, but the cop got his hand in between the hammer and the firing pin," Janes says. "I took this guy to jail, and he was joking that he'd do it again if he got the chance. Anyway, 18 months...
...stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point, is still going to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and the Roman Catholic center of former Yugoslavia, on Saturday. BTW: John Paul II may not make it to Bosnia, but the bulletproof "Popemobile" is parked there, just in case...
...what it may be worth, Dr. John Bayard Britton's killer did not penetrate his homemade bulletproof vest...
...anti-abortion groups. Also today, the Senate voted 98-0 to call for federal authorities to protect abortion clinics.GIRDING FOR BATTLE? Meanwhile, volunteer escorts at two Pensacola abortion clinics -- including the one at which the Pensacola doctor and his escort were killed last Friday -- will now be provided with bulletproof vests, courtesty of the Feminist Majority, a national foundation...