There was serious speeding by all the vehicles involved, Harry Kalaba - an official in the vice-president's office - told AFP news agency from the crash site.
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Democrats, emboldened, have called for deeper probes (last month, Republicans headed off an additional investigation into WMD-related contacts between the vice-president's office and the CIA, and another into whether America co-operated sufficiently with United Nations weapons inspectors before the war).
Deputies from Mr Morales's MAS party, which has a slim majority, then decamped to the vice-president's office to approve the charges against the judges, provoking a further outcry from the opposition.
Although the president subsequently took them over, the eventual deal seemed to rely in large part on the vice-president's earlier handiwork.
For me, the potential parallel -- and the key challenge facing Governor Bush -- is how the vice-president's campaign dealt with the gubernatorial challenger.
First, and most obviously, Mr Dukakis ran a disastrous campaign, never finding an answer to the vice-president's attacks on his record as governor of Massachusetts.
Mr Bush has right-wingers at every level of his administration, with particular concentrations in the vice-president's office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Justice Department and the White House counsel's office.
Even Mr Bush had his lapses in the vice-president's eyes: he decided to go along with twitchy lawyers in the Justice Department, for example, when they questioned the legality of a counter-terrorist eavesdropping scheme.
The Clinton administration is solicitous of union views, not least because Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the House, uses any anti-union move to boost his presidential prospects at the expense of the vice-president's.
Mr Bradley is facing this problem too, which is why he is reacting defensively rather than going on the offensive himself (by, for example, bringing up the vice-president's 1996 fund-raising activities at Buddhist temples).
During Estrada's presidential campaign, Manuel worked as the then-vice president's chief fundraiser while Ronaldo handled the political aspects, recruiting opposition candidates for provincial governors, city and town mayors and congressmen.
Some say that Mr Zuma has been busy behind the scenes concocting a deal between Mr Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwe's vice-president and Mr Mnangagwa's bitter rival.
His faculty appointment followed a 31-year career at Mobil Oil where he was Vice-President of the U.S. oil and natural gas business, and then Vice-President of oil and natural gas in Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
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Freeh's highly publiclized difference of opinion with Attorney General Janet Reno over the issue of seeking an independent counsel to investigate the president's and vice president's fund-raising activities has certainly influenced the way the White House views Freeh.
To the embarrassment of America's Vice-President Al Gore , President Clinton publicly pointed out weaknesses in his deputy's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's vice-president, masterminded and supplied Mr Kabila's rebellion last year.
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The airlines are also acutely aware of the damage such incidences can cause their reputation, as made clear by ANA's vice-president Osamu Shinobe and executive Hiroyuki Ito's actions as they bowed in shame to apologise to passengers and their family members for causing them concern.
According to Comibol's vice-president, Armando Guzman, all the smelting plant's 800 employees have now agreed to the deal, as have three-quarters of the miners.
Before becoming president he was Ronald Reagan's vice-president from 1981-89.
"From an overall market perspective, the market growth rate is expected to slow down compared with the previous years, " said Kim Hyun-joon, vice president of Samsung's mobile-communications business, during the company's January earnings call with analysts.
Her appointment would also marginalise Mr Obama's vice-president, Joe Biden, who, as the outgoing head of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, had been expected to play a big role in foreign policy.
Kohl on July 16, Ed Van Dolsen, TIAA-CREF's executive vice president of institutional-client services, wrote that the company "regrets any misunderstanding" caused by the recent ad and would not run it again.
Rwanda's vice-president and army chief, Paul Kagame, says that his troops must stay in Congo until Rwanda's borders are secure and the threat from the Interahamwe militia fighters has been dealt with.
They'll work with Ford's next generation of leaders--people like Mark Fields, group vice president of Ford's Premier Automotive Group, and Martin Leach, president of Ford of Europe--to shape a strategy.
It is hamstrung by the need to appease protectionist trade unions in order to boost Vice-President Al Gore's presidential hopes next year.
John Bush, vice-president of Gillette's research and development, likens the reduced drag to cutting down a tree with an axe rather than a wedge.
AFL-CIO, which is supporting Vice-President Al Gore's presidential bid next year.
The gift was a light-hearted reference to US Vice-President Joe Biden's recent remark that the new US administration wanted to reset ties with Russia after years of friction.
Scott Totzke, vice-president of Blackberry's security group, said the number and severity of mobile attacks he's seen so far have been minimal -- but that that could easily change.
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