Word: bulletproof
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...priest's supporters are not taking any chances. Since the election, Aristide has made no statements or public appearances. He now wears a bulletproof vest and sleeps in a different location every night. Until he takes office in February, the most immediate threat is from forces loyal to Duvalier. Roger Lafontant, a former leader of Duvalier's dreaded Tontons Macoutes, has vowed he will "do anything" to prevent Aristide from becoming President...
...twelve-day, eight- city U.S. tour. For one brief, wistful moment, a city that had been pounded by a series of violent racial incidents seemed to vibrate with one voice shouting "Mandela!" More than 750,000 people lined the streets of lower Manhattan as Mandela sped by in a bulletproof glass chamber borne on a flatbed truck. At a rally on the steps of City Hall, Mandela was presented with the key to the city by Mayor David Dinkins, one of the five African-American mayors who will welcome him on his trip (a sixth, Marion Barry of Washington, will...
Looks like I've got my work cut out for me, Diane. There are network executives to question. A suspicious one-armed man has been hanging around the Nielsen offices. Get Albert and his team on the case. Now if I can just get out of this bulletproof vest...
...drug-related violence and semiautomatic assault rifles have spread across the nation, an increasing number of police departments have equipped their officers with bulletproof vests. Now drug dealers are following the lead. Over the past few years, police in Washington and other cities have noticed an upsurge in hoodlums clad in "soft body armor" capable of stopping a shot from a .357 Magnum, to say nothing of less powerful police sidearms...
...drug merchants seem more interested in protecting themselves from trigger-happy rivals than from the cops. But the trend has prompted police to change their tactics. The prevalence of bulletproof vests not only forces officers to aim for the head if a gun-wielding suspect does not fall after being shot in the chest. It also, says Hubert Williams, president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, makes them more likely to shoot first...