Word: second-in-command
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Whatever differences Gorbachev had with his second-in-command, this was not the kind of brutal, all-out power struggle that had rocked the Kremlin under previous leaders. Those who know Ligachev agree that he is not hungrily scheming to replace Gorbachev...
...seminaries -- were difficult for blacks," he says with no apparent bitterness. In 1962 he was ordained in the Josephite order of priests, which was founded in the 19th century to serve blacks. Its leadership had always been white, but nine years later he became their vicar-general, or second-in-command, the first black to hold such an office in any religious order. Rome was noticing him. Marino was consecrated as a bishop in 1974 and assigned as an auxiliary in Washington. In 1985 he was elected secretary of the American bishops' national conference, a mark of considerable esteem from...
...rose steadily under Chun. After his retirement from the military in 1981, Roh was named Minister of Political Affairs and oversaw national security and foreign relations. In 1985 he became second-in-command, after Chun, of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By early this year, after rivals resigned from the government amid a police-brutality scandal, Roh was poised to become Chun's chosen successor...
...longer appropriate, said Sankara, because it was chosen not by Africans but by white French colonists. Last week Sankara, 37, a popular and charismatic leader who was every inch an upright man, was himself replaced. He was ousted and killed in a bloody rebellion led by his second-in-command, Captain Blaise Compaore...
Authorities suspect that the Commission's contract for the hit went to John Gotti, 45, a stocky Gambino captain and protege of Castellano's ruthless second-in-command, Aniello Dellacroce, who died of natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...