That was when he decided to take the entire country under his control, replacing the top and middle echelons of state authority with representatives of the Donbas region, sweeping aside the indigenous elite.
Mr. Barghouti said he was "expressing the viewpoint of the Fatah movement," the political organization that is led by Mr. Arafat and that dominates the upper echelons of the Palestinian Authority.
JERUSALEM — Facing a corruption scandal that has rocked the highest echelons of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, the Palestinian president suspended his chief of staff on Sunday while a committee investigates accusations that the aide sought to trade influence for sex.
This seems to have bred perceptions that such information is a preserve of members in the top echelons of society, especially the educated elites and persons in higher positions of authority.
Federal prosecutors had denounced Mr. Kerik, a former police detective who rose to the upper echelons of power, as a corrupt official who sought to trade his authority for lavish benefits.
Nor is there any liability 'under like circumstances,' for no private individual has power to conscript or mobilize a private army with such authorities over persons as the Government vests in echelons of command.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday that the US authorities were legally obliged to investigate the top echelons of the Bush administration over crimes such as torture, abduction and other mistreatment of prisoners.
That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other echelons of command.
The inspector general's inquiry is roiling the upper echelons of the 1,700-member 1,700-member patrols terminals, bridges, tunnels and other forceities maintained by the authority.
The frontline teams have clear decision-making authority, but they can exercise it with the knowledge of what upper echelons of management are trying to accomplish overall.
