Word: second-in-command
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...record source was the platoon's second-in-command, former Lieut. Robert Van Buskirk. He said he had seen two American defectors, vividly described killing one of them and seemed to confirm that nerve gas was used. His assertion about defectors, however, was based on a "recovered memory" that occurred while being interviewed by CNN. In his own book on Tailwind, he had not made this charge. Both in his early interviews with CNN and in statements he made after the story ran, he was ambiguous about whether the "Caucasians" he recalled were American defectors or Russian advisers...
...defectors, men, women or children." John Plaster, who served in the Studies and Observation Group during Tailwind, says, "Nerve agent never was used, and it was not available on call even if we'd wanted to use it." Denver Minton, who as a sergeant first class was second-in-command of one of the three platoons involved in Tailwind, told the St. Petersburg Times, "We weren't there to kill defectors... There was no talk whatsoever about defectors." An airplane did drop gas "to help with our rescue," Minton said, "but I believe it was tear gas, not nerve...
...apology -- from the Clinton team three weeks ago, and turned it down. The Wednesday press release was an apparent rebuttal to a TIME report that Jones' team, lost in the shuffle of the Lewinsky scandal, was eager to settle. But Jones' attorneys claimed that Mitchell S. Ettinger, second-in-command to Clinton's lead counsel, Robert S. Bennett, had approached them with the offer but never responded when they made a $900,000 counteroffer pending agreement on the language of Clinton's apology. In his own press release, Ettinger dismissed the Jones statement as "erroneous and misleading in all material...
DIED. ENDICOTT ("Chub") PEABODY, 77, quixotic onetime Massachusetts Governor; in Hollis, N.H. Peabody campaigned for the 1972 Democratic nomination for Vice President, insisting that the party, not the Prez, should choose the nation's second-in-command...
...WEEK BEGAN with a bang and ended with a bear. The explosion was the sound of the Justice Department?s first salvo against Microsoft?s mighty monopoly. As Janet Reno and her trusty second-in-command Joel Klein stormed the ramparts of Redmond in search of the secrets of Internet Explorer 4, their mightiest weapon was the threat of a million-dollar-a-day fine if Bill Gates didn?t play nice...