Word: brother-in-law
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...Haul. Son of a Kurdish mother and a Turkish father who belonged to the nomadic Kocerli tribe (hence the nickname), Kocero was born 38 years ago in a tiny, ten-house village. For a while he was poor but straight, but in 1950 he killed his brother-in-law in an "affair of honor," stole more than $250 in lire and gold coins and fled for the hills. From then on, Kocero virtually ruled what few roads there were in the southeast. In a single day, he and his band of five or six men looted 200 people by halting...
...January evening in 1960 a 22-year-old laborer named Danny Escobedo was taken into custody by Chicago police. Under intensive questioning he confessed to complicity in the slaying of his brother-in-law. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for first-degree murder. Escobedo appealed on the grounds that the police had refused his requests to allow him to consult his lawyer during the interrogation and that his confession had not been voluntary. The Illinois Supreme Court agreed that the confession was involuntary and reversed his conviction; then the state asked for a rehearing, persuaded the court...
Launching Pad. Bobby's brother-in-law, Steve Smith, an experienced Kennedy political troubleshooter, has recently been scouting out Bobby's chances for the New York seat. The idea appeals greatly to many New York Democratic leaders; they have been desperately looking for a strong candidate to contest Keating, who has a formidable following. But there are dissonant voices as well. Upstate Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton wants the nomination himself. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner mumbled his reluctant acquiescence, but he would just as soon not deal with any threats to his party leadership...
Brazil's favorite guessing game for the last four weeks has been "Whither Brizola?" A demagogic leftist Congressman and brother-in-law of deposed President João Goulart, Leonel Brizola had last been seen two days after the revolution, scooting up a Pôrto Alegre street in a green Volkswagen-an angry, rock-throwing crowd chasing him on foot. Then he dropped from sight. Was he hiding out in his home town of Pôrto Alegre? "Impossible," sniffed the Pôrto Alegre military. "We would have captured him." Uruguay? "Impossible," echoed the border patrol...
...what of the man himself? With his beautiful wife and two small children, João Goulart is in Uruguay, living in a small Montevideo hotel. Uruguay has granted him asylum, and he is reportedly looking for a permanent home. His far-leftist brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, is still at large somewhere in southern Brazil, possibly on his own Fazenda Aceguá, a sprawling sheep and cattle ranch straddling the Brazil-Uruguay border...