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...secretary-generalship. That should give him a relatively free hand to pursue his policies-if only he can keep harmony within his own family. His brother, Lieut. Colonel Rifaat Assad, 34, who was elected for the first time to the National Command, directs the crack 30,000-man "Defense Phalanx" guarding Damascus. A nephew commands the army's "Struggle Brigade" within the Phalanx, a brother-in-law the 20,000-man special forces, and a cousin the paratroop "Thunder Brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Further Detours on the Road to Peace | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Madame Nhu describe the Buddhist monks who burned themselves to death to protest her brother-in-law's regime...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Divorced. Peter Lawford, 51, silver-haired actor and former brother-in-law of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy when he was married to their sister Patricia; by Mary Rowan, 25, daughter of Comedian Dan Rowan, straight man of TV's Laugh-In; after three years and five months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 7, 1975 | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Jimmy is very close to his family; he has now moved them all to California. His brother, who lives with him in Caan's Beverly Hills home, is a production assistant; his brother-in-law is Jimmy's business manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Gentleman Jimmy | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...exuberant bachelor until he was 40, Onassis in 1946 married 17-year-old Athina ("Tina") Livanos, daughter of one of Greece's most powerful shipping tycoons, Stavros Livanos. The marriage also made Onassis the brother-in-law of Shipper Stavros Niarchos, his rival for wealth, status and flamboyance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: One of the Last Tycoons | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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