21.   He is reported to be under the control of his former top military commander, Ta Mok.

22.   He even awarded the top commanders an extra star just before the presidential election.

23.   He meets often with Williams and top commanders.

24.   He made his name as a daring military leader during the fabled Long March and was a top commander of Chinese forces during the Korean War.

25.   He said that the senior Chechen leader, Gen. Dzhokar M. Dudayev, and his top commander, Aslan Maskhadov, approved the plan to take hostages in Budyonnovsk.

26.   Highlights of the yearlong visionary process by Baca and his top commanders includes setting up independent review panels for police misconduct, which is already in the works.

27.   His top commanders are to fill four Cabinet positions.

28.   Human-rights groups point to evidence of collusion between army officers, though not top commanders, and the paramilitaries.

29.   I know all the top commanders of the Khmer Rouge.

30.   In a weirder episode, a top submarine commander was relieved of duty after being accused of sodomizing a British observing officer with a cigar tube.