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Despite the crowd's roaring approval of the festivities, Uganda today is a land of terror and discontent. During Big Daddy's four-year reign, at least 50,000 Ugandans-and perhaps four or five times that number-have been murdered. Amin's own brother-in-law, Wanume Kibedi, quit as Foreign Minister last year in disgust. Kibedi's glamorous replacement, Princess Elizabeth Bagaya, a former high-fashion model, was sacked two months ago on the trumped-up charge that she had made love to a white man in a rest room at Paris' Orly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Murderous Anarchy | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...disclosure this week that the drafts of the report passed through the hands of Stephen Smith, head of the Kennedy Library Corporation and brother-in-law to the late president, has destroyed the report's credibility as a technical document. Robert T. Griffin, the GSA administrator who sent the documents to Smith before the agency's experts had examined it, is a long time Democrat who it appears, placed his loyalty to the Kennedy family over his responsibility to the people of Cambridge. He should resign or be removed from his post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Library | 2/7/1975 | See Source »

...F.N.L.A., which is led by Black Nationalist Holden Roberto and backed by Roberto's brother-in-law, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Fragile Independence | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...Obviously, that's what I'm talking about. I was trying to be descriptive about a certain sort of environment, because I did find myself thinking, as I wrote, about my brother-in-law, who teaches at a small state school in Pennsylvania. I thought to myself as I was writing it, now, he wouldn't know what I'm talking about, partly because his relationship with his students would be different from my relationship with my students and partly because his students would be different from my students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fear and Loving at Harvard | 1/8/1975 | See Source »

...Soon after the accident, Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, hired lawyers for some who had attended the party. The same two lawyers represented eight of the inquest witnesses. Said Ray LaRosa: "The lawyers coached us pretty good. We knew what to expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Chappaquiddick | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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