Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honey!" the man replied and the buddies laughed heartily. They were there for entertainment, a good show--a woman with a clitoris in her throat--and there's nothing like good entertainment. Nothing like a good showmaster to lock the doors of the theater and pull down the shades and give you all the toys you want...girls, pills, grass, a vibrating thumbsucker if you want...everybody wants to see it, too many people want this--it's democratic...the show must go on, the greatest show on earth: war, crucifixion, rape, submission...to You...you can be anything...
...SHAH. This particularly enraged the embassy's assistant press attache, Abbas Lavasani, 29, who argued with his captors and defended Khomeini's Islamic revolution. At one point, one of the gunmen was ready to shoot Lavasani but was dissuaded by another hostage, British Police Constable Trevor Lock, 41, who had been overpowered at the embassy entrance on the first...
...Lock had played a moderating influence from the beginning, telling his captors: "Look, if you start shooting people, if you kill even one of us, you know you will have no chance after that, don't you?" Lock wore his policeman's tunic throughout the siege, and even put on his hat when he spoke to his superiors through the embassy windows. The reason for Lock's formality: his .38-cal. revolver was hidden beneath the tunic. Lock told the other two British captives about the gun, but felt that if he tried...
...wounding two others, including Chargé d'Affaires Gholam Ali Afrouz. Given the amount of terrorist fire occurring at that moment, said Morris, it was a miracle that only one man was killed. When one gunman took careful aim at an S.A.S. commando entering through a window, Constable Lock tackled the terrorist, and the commando shot the gunman dead...
...backpacks on a 37%-mile, 20-hr, trek. In one ten-day exercise, half-naked recruits are set down at the mouth of a Welsh valley, harried by deafening sirens and an infantry force firing real bullets. Those who pass these tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering, skiing, underwater diving, field communication and parachute jumping. Constant practice in rescuing hostages in simulated situations on trains, aircraft and from buildings has taught S.A.S. experts split-second timing. In preparation for the Princes Gate assault, the S.A.S. built a scale model of the Iranian...