Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most chilling image was the truck bomb, with its driver and vehicle wired to explode to kingdom come. In September, the rig came hurtling at the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, but a well-aimed shot by a bodyguard caused it to blow up short of its main target and kept casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums...
...fact that the Viet Nam War was on makes a better excuse. As Winston Churchill once remarked, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Nowadays public figures are confronted with the problem of telling the truth or lying in a way that never faced Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. Before congressional committees or television interviewers they face cameras, instant answers are demanded, and the pictorial proof of what is said goes into the files to haunt them. In the Westmoreland trial, McNamara was a reluctant witness; for 13 years previously...
What made the assassination of the proud but vulnerable Mrs. Gandhi particularly pathetic was that it was committed by members of her bodyguard whom she had continued to trust against all warnings. The so-called disciples of India's revered Guru Nanak, contemptuously basking in foreign shelter in Western countries, have no reason for jubilation. I feel sad about the shame brought upon my Sikh countrymen by those traitors. They emptied their guns into someone who, with all her real or imagined power, was a small, frail old woman...
...four visits, none longer than three weeks, which Greene made between 1976 and 1980 Though the General was Greene's host, the writer spent most of his time visiting the far corners of the country accompanied only by the fascinating Chuchu, a Marxist math professor who was Torrijos' bodyguard But Greene's travel writing falters Characters float in and out without explanation and personal relationships are never resolved. Greene's major preoccupation while in Panama, if we may judge from the repeated mention it receives, is the search for a good rum punch But the numerous bad ones seem...
...time since the Marxist-led Sandinista government came to power in 1979, prisoners were exchanged with one of the three major guerrilla groups that oppose the regime. In a village on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, Misurasata, an armed resistance movement of Miskito Indians, freed two Sandinistas and their bodyguard, who had been captured by the Miskitos in September. The next day, the Sandinistas released three Miskitos held as subversives. Said Brooklyn Rivera, a Misurasata leader who helped arrange the exchange: "The Sandinistas have learned that we are not counterrevolutionaries. Rather, we are Indians fighting for the just rights...