The former third-ranking member in the State Senate will continue to take from the public coffers because his $80,000 pension remains intact.

That has benefited the third-ranking member of the hierarchy, Qiao Shi, a former security chief who now heads China's nominal legislature.

Mr. Spano, who was first elected to the Senate in 1986, is now the third-ranking member of the Senate.

Maria Aguinaldo, known as "Red," is the third-ranking member of the team.

Mr. Muoi, 71 years old, is the third-ranking member of the Politburo, the nation's top policy-making body.

By 1983 he was the third-ranking member on Ways and Means, and worked well with its powerful chairman, Dan Rostenkowski.

As the third-ranking member of the Senate, he received about 100 invitations for this week's festivities.

When she left office, a departure brought about by shifting demographics in the borough, she was the third-ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The defendants included a man prosecutors identified as Anthony Graziano, the third-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family.

The new Government leader is Do Muoi, 71, the third-ranking member of the Politburo.