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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Deposed Dictators:Is There Life After Tyranny?
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- IDI AMIN -- Uganda
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- "The world's most dangerous man" (1971-79), Amin fled with
- his wives, children and entourage to Saudi Arabia. Tried
- returning to Uganda through Zaire last year and was kicked out.
- The Saudis allowed him back but restricted his access to phone
- lines.
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- JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA -- Central African Republic
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- The "Butcher of Bangui's" reign of torture was ended by a
- French-backed coup in 1979. He should have read Thomas Wolfe
- while living in opulent exile near Paris: returning home in
- 1986, he was arrested, then tried. He is under house arrest for
- life.
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- "BABY DOC" DUVALIER -- Haiti
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- The first of four Haitian leaders to take the air shuttle
- to exile, Duvalier lives on the Cote d'Azur. Though a court
- dismissed Haiti's $120 million suit to recover embezzled funds,
- money isn't everything. Bored with the good life, wife Michele
- divorced him.
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- ERICH HONECKER -- East Germany
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- Angry protesters demanded that the ailing former Premier
- move from both a comfortable village residence and a Protestant
- parsonage outside Berlin. He's now recovering from an operation
- for kidney cancer at a Soviet sanatorium near Potsdam.
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- ALFREO STROESSNER -- Paraguay
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- Thought to be indestructible after 34 years in power, this
- senior Western dictator was ousted by his longtime
- second-in-command, General Andres Rodriguez. The general now
- lives on a hilltop in friendly Brazil, though his wife moved
- to Miami without him.
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