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...except Kitty, wants to have anything to do with the governor. Democratic hopefuls for governor, including Dukakis' second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy, have distanced themselves from...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Does Anyone in Massachusetts Feel Sorry for the Duke? | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: More Bad Chemistry | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

CAPTAIN Jean-Luc Picard is simply a jerk. He is strict with his crew and makes his decisions by the book. He even twitches when he says the word "civilian." Kirk was always wise and likeable. His successor cannot even joke with his second-in-command, whom he insists on calling "Number...

Author: By Michael Berke, | Title: The Final Frontier Gets Proton Torpedoed | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

Shortly before dawn, the rebellion achieved its goal: the ouster of General Alfredo Stroessner, 76. As Stroessner was held unharmed under house arrest at an army residence, his longtime second-in-command and chief of the First Corps, General Andres Rodriguez, made a radio address. "I communicate to you that General Stroessner has surrendered and finds himself in perfect health, deprived of liberty." Rodriguez soon took the oath as provisional President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paraguay The Extinction of a Dinosaur | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...bulletin announced that Paul had retired from the army with a pension of $960 a month. Paul negotiated the agreement with Lieut. General Prosper Avril, his 1961 classmate at Haiti's military academy, who is now President of the country. Lieut. Colonel Guy Francois, Paul's U.S.-trained second-in-command, was named to succeed him as head of the Dessalines barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti The General vs. the Colonel | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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