1.   He would be a natural successor because of the importance of familial ties in drug cartels, authorities said.

2.   The image of the Cuban-American community in Miami, however, has suffered because of its belligerence in disrupting familial ties between father and son.

3.   Yet few black Americans realize that their familial ties to Native Americans are evidence of an important historical process.

4.   It is in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir where the fear of war seems most intense and the familial ties with India are deepest.