With scores killed and thousands jailed, Mr Rakowski became the right-hand man of the country's new military leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski.
And Estrada has just named Jose Syjuco, the right-hand man of Imelda's youngest brother, Benjamin, president of giant oil company Petron Corp.
For years he has been the right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen and was briefly the leader of a far-right group within the European Parliament.
The two were identified as Commander Saif Ullah, described by police as the right-hand man of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, and Maulvi Umar, the well-known spokesman for the group.
Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.
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This can scarcely come as a surprise since, as the right-hand man of Yasser Arafat for decades, he is not exactly a new leader "not compromised by terror" - whose election Mr. Bush made, nearly three years ago, a precondition for U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state.
Prince Abdullah, aged 36 and the king's right-hand man in the army, has never concerned himself with politics.
He was the pope's right-hand man when the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed the department that enforces doctrinal orthodoxy.
He was the speaker of parliament and Khomeini's right-hand man in the 1980s, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and is now chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between the clerical establishment and parliament.
Yet how can The Economist endorse Mr Greenspan's right-hand man, when we have long criticised the chairman for failing to curb the stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s, and later for propping up the economy by inflating a housing bubble?
Eleven figures Jesus, Mary, two women comforting Mary, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arithmea, Nicodemus, two helpers, a boy holding one of the ladders, and a standing man in the lower right-hand corner all emote, collapse, twist, strain or stand grieving like heroes at the breaking of a strike.
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The late cardinal of Florence and right-hand man of Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Benelli who crossed swords with Escriva over the years nevertheless once said that what Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was to the sixteenth-century Council of Trent, Escriva was to the Second Vatican Council.
It is likely that Mr Miliband's main rival will be Ed Balls, the former schools secretary, who was Mr Brown's right-hand man and enforcer during his ten years at the Treasury.
Mr Fastow came forward for arrest in October, following the guilty plea of his former right-hand man Michael Kopper.
Directed with laudable economy by Stuart Heisler from a crisp screenplay by Jonathan Latimer, the movie centers on two good friends the crooked political kingmaker Paul Madvig (a slick but sympathetic Brian Donlevy) and his steady right-hand man, Ed Beaumont (the blond and angular Ladd) who grow apart over the former's infatuation with the spirited Janet Henry (the sultry Lake) and his impulsive support for her reformer-candidate father.
The word "secretary" conjures up images of a bygone era, of pearls and sweater sets, sensible heels and knee-length skirts, and the right mixture of efficiency and self-effacement to fade into the background while acting as a powerful man's right hand.
For the last two years, he has been Paulson's right-hand man, providing analysis on a mortgage crisis that has consumed the world's economies.
Lineen also ruled out becoming Robinson's right-hand man should the Englishman get the job.
Al-Adly is believed to be Mubarak's right-hand man in the security forces' violent actions against protesters.
Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them a chilling tale.
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His passport has been confiscated and he is banned from meeting Claude Couty, his former right-hand man at the company.
Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them about plots to hijack U.S. jets.
Jenkins, who arrives in the Wales job along with Llanelli Scarlets right-hand man Nigel Davies as his attack coach, has been searching for some time for a defence coach.
"Both Danny and Kirsten agreed that whoever had the best chance of winning would be put forward and that is what happened, " said Dennis Mumble, Jordaan's right-hand man at the FTF.
Jerry Richardson, who was her right-hand man during the thuggish days when she surrounded herself with a gang known as the Mandela United Football Club, and is currently serving a life sentence for Stompie's murder, said this week that she ordered that the boy be killed, but did not herself stab him.
One of the four, Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, was accused of passing Saif al-Islam coded documents, allegedly written by his former right-hand man, during the team's visit.
After attaching such an important tag to this encounter, it appeared pivotal to the future of Grant - who had new right-hand man Wally Downes at his side - that West Ham emerged victorious.
Indeed, this may be one reason why Igor Sechin, Mr Putin's right-hand man, who oversaw the destruction of Yukos and the Exxon deal, has kept away from America.
It is being claimed that neither the prime minister's right hand man and spinner -in-chief, Alastair Campbell, or his wife Fiona Millar, who works as Mrs Blair's aide, have fallen out with Mrs Blair over her relationship with either Carole Caplin or Mr Foster.
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