Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany him on an expedition among the touchy Danakil. "Had he come," he adds menacingly, "I suspect only one of us would have...
...Cocaine Cowboy Jorge Ochoa Vasquez. Hoyos was headed for the airport to return to Bogota. Suddenly, three jeeps and a car forced Hoyos' Mercedes off the road. Several men jumped out and sprayed the Attorney General's car with machine-gun fire, apparently wounding Hoyos and instantly killing his bodyguard and driver. Hoyos, his head bowed and bloody, was dragged from the vehicle and kidnaped. Hours later his bullet-riddled body was found in a nearby farmhouse...
...trial and subsequent conviction on charges of framing his political opponents. He was given a seven-year jail sentence. Five months later Mswati, in a spirited gesture of independence, fired his Prime Minister and cousin, Bhekimpi Dlamini, before a crowd of thousands, and then appointed a former personal bodyguard to the job. Finally, in May the King ordered the arrest and detention of Bhekimpi and eleven others, including five princes and princesses, a Cabinet minister and the former national ombudsman. Trial dates have not been set for any of the detainees...
...Lebanon's Defense Minister, when the pair suddenly found themselves sandwiched between two cars filled with armed men. The kidnapers were presumed to be members of the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God), the organization linked to a series of spectacular terrorist acts. They released Osseiran and his bodyguard-driver a week later, but kept Glass captive. Significantly, Glass's abduction was the first since Syrian troops had arrived in February in an attempt to restore order. The kidnaping was thus a personal affront to President Assad, who had vowed that the Muslim half of Beirut would henceforth...
...from that same airport, Glass, 36, was ambushed by four carloads of bearded gunmen. After being struck with rifle butts, he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the assailants' autos. Dragged off with him was Ali Osseiran, 40, son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, and their bodyguard- | driver. Glass became the ninth U.S. citizen and 24th foreigner to be held hostage in Lebanon...