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Even if he doesn't get the position, sources said, he will likely be the second-in-command within the new leadership structure...
...right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...
...fact, Q and his Los Angeles-headquarters second-in-command, Donald (``Doc'') Dennis, a suspected East Coast Crip, often displayed considerable long-distance ``savviness,'' according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Johnson. ``They called to question the amount of receipts coming in. They discussed how much crack was in the city. They discussed cooking agents. And they didn't keep books...
Birmingham's Renee Stephens remains at large. But Dink Slaughter and Drak Neal were followed home and arrested in Los Angeles. The Seattle team was jailed. Second-in-command Doc Dennis surrendered to a swat team in Burbank, California, without incident. And when Q himself was summoned to visit his parole officer--he once served time on a previous drug offense--he found FBI agents waiting for him. Finally, after 15 months on the run, Cleveland's M.J. Lee was also captured early this month in Chino Hills, California...
...when the Administration is operating on a skeleton holiday crew, was unexpected. "It was a surprise even to people in the White House," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney.A top contender for CIA director: John Deutch, deputy defense secretary and the second-in-command at the Pentagon. Deutch "would probably be confirmed easily and has expressed interest in the job," says TIME Washington correspondent Doug Waller. The biggest challenge for the successor remains adapting the agency to a post-Cold War world, Waller adds...