Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...
Wearing a white bulletproof vest, Yigal Amir was lead by police back to the spot where he killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today. As angry onlookers screamed insults, Amir calmly reenacted the assassination. Using a plastic pistol, he showed how he shot Rabin in the back, narrating his movements for a policeman with a tape recorder. "It was eerie," says TIME's Edward Barnes. "They did this at three in the morning and there was still a crowd." Barnes says that such reenactments are common in Israel, especially when suspects have confessed. "It does tend to reinforce the view that...
Perez, wearing a multicolored beret and matching vest, a black T-shirt and jeans, hugged his Lawyer before leaving jail. He said he wants to pitch this week, and Expos general manager Kevin Malone said Perez could be on the mound as early as Thursday in Montreal against Cincinnati...
McVeigh: The federal agents had been there several hours letting the crowd and media build up. Twice I asked for a [bulletproof] vest, but no one gave me one. When I walked out, the agents with me were an arm's length away from me. I expected to be shot and killed...
...details of the movie are striking. The vest always worn by flight director Kranz is delivered to him just before launch, complete with the mission emblem attached to the front pocket. The return trajectory is calculated using a slide rule. The baseball caps given to the astronauts aboard the recovery ship are exactly like the ones that were really worn by the returning spacemen...