Word: son-in-law
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...been in office less than 70 hours when he faced the first of what will probably be a series of crises that will mark his presidency. Sources close to the President tell TIME that on May 23, Habibie was confronted at his office by Lieut. General Prabowo Subianto, son-in-law of former President Suharto and the head of the powerful Army Strategic Reserve Command. The general "strongly requested" that Habibie name him army chief of staff and replace the chief of the armed forces, General Wiranto, with a Prabowo ally. Frightened, Habibie told the volatile general that promotions were...
...schisms go to the very top: the current chief of the armed forces, General Wiranto, served as Suharto's personal adjutant from 1989 to '93, and his main rival is the head of the army's special forces, General Prabowo Subianto, who also happens to be Suharto's son-in-law...
...list all its instruments of mass destruction. Over the next four years, the SSO did such an effective job of deception that by July 1995, UNSCOM was ready to declare its task done and close up shop. Then an extraordinary event happened: Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, who had been in charge of Iraq's secret-weapons development, defected to Jordan, where he went public with details of the concealment program...
...Daily Spin: Long-suffering morning talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford told viewers today that her late son-in-law Michael Kennedy had passed three lie-detector tests showing that he did not start having sex with his children's babysitter until after she turned 16. "Now, that does not mean that what he did was right," Gifford said. But she says that at least the tests, if accurate, show Kennedy did not do anything illegal, and "his children deserve to know that...
...Affairs and chairman of the new 11-member Panama Canal Authority, the agency that will run the facility after 2000. In addition, the President has invited a storm of criticism by naming a passel of relatives and political cronies to the Canal Authority board. They include his former son-in-law, his cousin, two of his wife's cousins and his campaign finance chairman...