Word: bulletproofing
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...brigadier general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside, on the tarmac, a phalanx of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles waited as China Airlines Flight 811 taxied toward Gate 8. By then, Aquino's ebullience had vanished. Dressed in a white safari suit and a bulletproof vest that he had put on just before landing, Aquino waited calmly as three soldiers in khaki uniforms entered the plane. He was aware of the threat of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces chief of staff, to send him "back on the same plane he arrived...
...crowd caught sight of the Pope arriving in his bulletproof car, hundreds of thousands of hands shot into the air in a V-for-victory sign. Red-and-white banners bearing the words SOLIDARITY and GDANSK sprouted from the stands and above the crowd outside the stadium amid hundreds of national flags and papal banners. A delegation from the Ursus Tractor Factory, once a hotbed of union activity, made its presence known with a sign reading URSUS WORKERS GREET THE POPE WITH SOLIDARITY. Another poster proclaimed: GOD, HONOR, HOMELAND, WE PRAY FOR THE PRISONERS. Security guards spread throughout the stadium...
...near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed at an open window and barked at a visitor: "Either put on a bulletproof vest or stay away from that window...
...working hard to strengthen his position as well as to demonstrate his continuing support. On one of these excursions, his eight-vehicle motorcade raced over the rutted, dusty roads of eastern Lebanon at 70 m.p.h., with the chairman riding in a dark-blue, late-model Chevrolet sedan equipped with bulletproof windows. At a stop along the way, as a group of bedraggled soldiers stood around him, Arafat said of the mutiny, "It is over. It is over." Again he blamed Gaddafi for the trouble, declaring that the Libyan leader "thought his money and his petroleum were more precious than...
...like nothing I've ever seen in my life." Tony, the owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover cop, is on probation and paying back the Government its undercover purchase money...