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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...