Word: brother-in-law
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...around to comment on his role in the Udall campaign. At every Massachusetts streetcorner stop in the last few days, Udall begins by saying that 16 years ago he campaigned in Arizona for "a young man running for president from Massachusetts--John Kennedy." Even though Kennedy's brother-in-law is running against him, Udall never fails to mention his JFK connection...
...Zaire may, in fact, support U.S. objectives in Angola. Zaire has in the past been open to many influences, and it is far from clear that the United States controls its policy. Zaire presently uses North Korean military advisors, for example. Also, President Mobuto of Zaire is the brother-in-law of Holden Roberto, leader of the FNLA, and this certainly is one other possible reason why Zaire has supported the FNLA...
...close personal nature and did not involve conspiratorial shenanigans of any kind." She said she met Kennedy in Las Vegas in 1960 at a party given by "a friend." The friend was Singer Frank Sinatra; one former Kennedy aide understood that Sinatra and J.F.K.'s brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, owned a piece of a nightclub where Judy once worked as a hostess. A month after she met the President, Sinatra brought her together with Giancana, who later introduced her to Roselli. Both gangsters knew of her affair with Kennedy, but she insisted that neither of them tried...
...have to worry about Christmas or any of that stuff at all. I mean, I've never been there myself, but I think I've got as good an idea as the next guy about what the general situation is down there. Take my brother-in-law, for example. When he was in the Navy he had a buddy who'd been down to Tahiti, and this guy could confirm the whole thing, detail for detail--the palm trees, the beaches, the governor-general, everything...
F.N.L.A. Chief Roberto has had his own source of foreign strength. His brother-in-law, Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, provides the F.N.L.A's 33,000 regular troops with arms, armored cars and personnel carriers sent to Zaïre by France and China. Roberto, the most Western-oriented of the Angolan liberation leaders, has also reportedly received CIA backing; it is believed that the Administration's request to Congress for a $35 million increase in military aid to Zaïre is mostly ticketed for the F.N.L.A. Until UNITA's military alliance with...