While many colleagues expressed anger over the possibility that he may have turned against trusted associates, others said they felt a sense of tragedy.
He brought in trusted associates like Fernando Abril, a former J. P. Morgan banker, who became chief financial officer, and shifted managers.
At least some of Mr. Duhalde's trusted associates from his days in the provinces appear to be ready to rejoin him in the central government.
At this one, he and his closest aides are expected to dole out important party posts among themselves and their trusted associates.
After he moved to Paris, he socialized mostly with his family and, since he was a suspicious man who suffered from a mild but persistent persecution complex, with a small circle of trusted associates.
When news of Texas Gulf activity leaked out in the Canadian press, President Claude O. Stephens was sufficiently concerned about rumors to seek advice from one of his most trusted associates -Thomas S. Lamont, senior member of the Texas Gulf board of directors.
Mr. Hernandez had been an aide to President Bush since his successful campaign for governor of Texas in 1994, and Ms. Ralston is known as one of Mr. Rove's most trusted associates.
When he came to power in the late 1980s, Milosevic appointed trusted associates to head the national broadcaster, firing longtime professionals and turning the TV into his regime's mouthpiece.
Roper tells of a career littered with violent enmities and broken friendships with trusted associates, including Luther's mentor and confessor Johann von Staupitz, his radical colleague Andreas von Carlstadt, and even his ally and successor in Wittenberg, Philipp Melanchthon.
Maryam, who was married to Ibrahim al-Kuwaiti, one of Bin Laden's most trusted associates and couriers, said her husband "quickly settled the matter", allowing the former al-Qa'ida leader to remain under the radar.
