Word: clan
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...arrests of Ne Win and his family members in March for allegedly planning a coup. That Than Shwe would move against Ne Win and purge his supporters in the military shows that Than Shwe will brook no dissent on either political or economic fronts. Diplomats say Ne Win, his clan and their followers in the army were opposed to the dialogue with Suu Kyi. Now, says a Western diplomat, "Than Shwe has never been stronger...
...both the Army and the Navy. Cappy says it was one of the first streets in Somerville to be named in someone’s honor. We soon drive by the house in which his father grew up. According to Cappy, all but two of the extended Capuano clan still live in the Commonwealth...
...father has traced the family genealogy back to an English ship that arrived in Ipswich around 1640. After impregnating a girl in West Roxbury, one of the brothers of John Newman fled Massachusetts for Stamford, Conn., ultimately settling in Monmouth, N.J. After fighting in the Revolutionary War, the Newman clan took its wartime payment in land across the Alleghenies in Ohio. Incidentally, there is a David Newman in the family, Shelley said, who works in a factory in Ohio: “I think he follows NASCAR racing and is definitely not Harvard material...
According to Fozia, her father held enormous power as the leader of the Populzai clan until three years ago—when he was assassinated by the Taliban in Pakistan...
After her father’s death, Karzai’s brother became the leader of the Populzai clan...