Word: brother-in-law
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Apart from Mobutu's hope that an independent Cabinda would be easy prey for Zaire, he has concentrated on aiding the FNLA, whose leader, Holden Roberto, is his brother-in-law. The FNLA is essentially a tribal organization of the Bakongo, some 500,000 of whom fled to Zaire after the abortive 1961 uprising, and operates largely from Zairean bases. Since the FNLA has no real program beyond anti-communism and tribalism, the movement has attracted a great deal of Western support which is funneled through Mobutu. The U.S., which is increasing military aid to Zaire from $3.8 million...
...files that have been released already have apparently revealed interesting, if not overwhelming new facts. The Rosenberg files included a summary of an FBI interview with David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, whose testimony against the Rosenbergs was instrumental to the government's case. The summary shows that Greenglass originally did not want to testify against his sister and brother-in-law but was convinced to do so by the FBI. When Greenglass testified against them he said he supplied the Rosenbergs with information on the atomic bomb, which he claimed to have obtained while working as a technician...
...scientific topics on Friday. Lately, his mornings have often been devoted to presiding at official functions, his afternoons to sports. The Prince hunts partridge, golfs, swims and water-skis ("I prefer one ski to two"). He holds a black belt in karate, a distinction he shares with his brother-in-law, former King Constantine of Greece. Juan Carlos was a member of the Dragon-class crew that sailed for Spain in the 1972 Olympics...
...effort to break the mold cast by Franco comes too late, Juan Carlos will have at least one sympathizer. His brother-in-law Constantine has reportedly told Juan Carlos that if he had spoken out more forcefully against the military junta in Greece, he might still be reigning in Athens rather than living in the suburbs of London...
Architects of the fiasco were General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, the army chief of staff, and his brother-in-law General Alejandro Soils Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters...