"They said, 'Who is the woman who was raped?' I said, 'I am.'" Barake was taken to police headquarters where, she said, the most powerful officers in the country demanded to know why she had changed her name for the media.
During this time, another courtier, a high-ranking military officer named Andriamamba, discovered the truth and collaborated with other powerful officers - Andriamihaja, Rainijohary and Ravalontsalama - to support Ramavo's claim to the throne.
The Americans decided that while they wanted Khánh out, they did not approve of Thảo and Phát, and their polarizing policies, so they began to lobby Kỳ and Thi, the two most powerful officers apart from Khánh, to defeat both sides.
For many years, driving up prison populations has been an easy thing for elected officials to do, popular with voters and powerful corrections officer unions.
If Anglo-Saxon epithets were armaments, Britannia would rule the waves, thanks to the uncivil tongue of Malcolm Tucker, a powerful press officer.
In a twist to the tale, he displaced Falkenberg last September, and is now the bloc's most powerful environment officer, after Karmenu Vella, the EU's commissioner for the environment.
But that government is struggling to consolidate its authority and remains unrecognized by the eastern faction, which is allied with a powerful army officer and Qaddafi-era defector, General Khalifa Haftar.
Mr. Hastert, who was the longest-serving Republican speaker ever when Democrats toppled him by winning the majority last November, said he found it difficult to play such a reduced role in the House after serving as its powerful chief officer for eight years.
One of Syria's most powerful military officers, Gen. Muhammad Sulaiman, was mysteriously assassinated on August 1.
Mr. Lanigan oversaw the agency's finances and dealt extensively with the powerful correction officers' union.
