Word: lacerda
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...night last week Lacerda's enemies, prepared to kill, tried again. Lacerda, after addressing a political rally in his campaign for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, was driven home, with his 15-year-old son Sergio, by Brazilian Air Force Major Rubens Vaz. In front of the Lacerda apartment, the editor and the major chatted. As he talked, chunky Editor Lacerda spotted two men loitering across the street, hastily said goodbye to the major and hurried to his door...
...before Lacerda was inside, one of the men ran toward them, ducked behind a car 15 feet away and began shooting a .45. The first two bullets hit the major, and he fell groaning to the sidewalk. The third nicked Lacerda's foot. Pushing his son into the apartment-house garage, Lacerda dropped down behind a wall and fired back with his own .38 pistol. The attacker fired a few last shots, then ran off into the night. Major Vaz died on the way to the hospital, his head in Carlos Lacerda...
Died in War. Two hours later, Lacerda propped his bandaged foot on a hospital stretcher, called for paper and pencil and dashed off a grim, accusing editorial for next day's front page...
Victim's Accusation. Few of Lacerda's fellow editors cared or dared to go so far, but all of Rio was roundly shocked. Even the Tribuna's old rival, Ultima Hora, declared the shooting "a crime which under no circumstances can be justified." Major Vaz's fellow air-force officers warned that "If the police don't solve this, we will," and promptly began their own investigation of the shooting. A cabbie who had driven one of the assassins to and from the scene was arrested, but at week's end the assailants...
...Lacerda insisted, however, that he knew where they came from: "Perhaps as a newspaperman I can't make this accusation, but as the victim I can. I am sure the assassins were members of Getu lio Vargas' personal bodyguard." Replied President Vargas: "I considered Carlos Lacerda my greatest enemy. No man has done so much harm to my government. Now he is my enemy No. 2, because No. 1 is the man who shot...