Word: son-in-law
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...rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev, the son-in-law of Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev, the rebels say they will kill the hostages if Russia does not withdraw troops from Chechnya. The action was reminiscent of a similar incident last June, when Chechen fighters held more than 1,000 hostages in a hospital in the Russian city of Budyonnovsk...
...life figures of political life that we've come to know and revile. This allows us the comic relief of seeing our fine Arkansan leader in unguarded moments: "That's bullshit!" or "He's going to start World War III!" Or fair Saddam's familial side, "slapping his son-in-law on the back." What...
...flight of Hussein Kamel al-Majid to Jordan last month, along with several relatives, revealed a shocking rift in Iraq's ruling clan. Hussein Kamel is Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law. A true hard-liner, he oversaw Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction and, as he indirectly admits below, was responsible for brutal repression of Shi'ites and Kurds after the Gulf War. In his first major interview with a Western journalist, Hussein Kamel talked to diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer in Amman. On one matter he was almost certainly dissembling: though he denies...
Baghdad has rushed to confess because Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam's son-in-law and the senior general in charge of his nuclear and biological weapons programs, defected to Jordan on Aug. 8. Saddam knew he couldn't keep Hussein Kamel quiet, so he decided to try to make points with the U.N. by producing a flood of information on the weapons program. The day after Hussein Kamel defected, the chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, received a letter from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz summoning him to Baghdad for "new and important revelations...
...preparing for the pivotal role he will play in the forthcoming debates over Medicare and welfare reform. During his spare time in his Senate office, he leafs through a worn hardcover copy of the play A Man for All Seasons. His favorite part? Sir Thomas More cautioning his son-in-law to follow the law rather than his own moral certitude. The lesson, Packwood says, is "be wary of people who are convinced they are right." There are Senators who would say the same of Packwood...