Word: brother-in-law
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...Britain intelligence officials believe they have identified the man holding Terry Waite, the Anglican envoy kidnaped 20 months ago while trying to negotiate the release of other hostages. He is Imad Mughniyah, Hizballah's head of security, whose brother-in-law Mustafa Youssef Badreddin is one of the Shi'ite terrorists serving prison terms in Kuwait...
...nail polish. "I love it when she paints on little palm trees," says an adoring Al. He insists that his wife's departure from Kersee's club will not cause any awkwardness come Thanksgiving Day. Says Al: "Jackie will always be my sister, Bobby will always be my brother-in-law, and Florence will always be my wife...
...ordering more executions during his eight-year term than any other sitting Governor could offset Dukakis' soft-on-crime image. He is a master of the political gimmick -- he performed 100 different jobs in 100 days during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign -- with potent Washington connections (he is the brother-in-law of Washington Post Board Chairman Katharine Graham). But with less than two years in the Senate, he brings little Washington or foreign policy experience to the ticket...
...death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle the question of whether the Constitution forbids such executions by considering the case of William Wayne Thompson, 21, an Oklahoma inmate who was 15 when he helped murder his former brother-in-law...
...Gromyko (not true), that she is of Tatar descent and her actual patronymic is not Maximovna but the rather Asian-sounding Maksudovna ("I am absolutely Russian," she countered last year), that her father was a prominent official exiled to Siberia by Stalin (unlikely), that she has a brother-in-law who was a minor party official until he somehow embarrassed her husband (unconfirmed...