Word: vaz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...Rubens Vaz, hero . . . father of four children, fell this night at my side. My own son ran with him the risk to which all Brazilians living under a regime of corruption and terror are subject. Those who resist corruption fall victims of violence . . . The sight of Rubens Vaz lying in the street . . . prevents me from analyzing coldly at this moment the hideous ambush of tonight. But before God I accuse only one man as responsible for this crime. He is the protector of thieves, whose impunity gives them audacity for acts like this one tonight. This man is Getulio Vargas...
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...