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- <text id=90TT1900>
- <title>
- July 16, 1990: Deposed Dictators
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Deposed Dictators:Is There Life After Tyranny?
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p>IDI AMIN--Uganda
- </p>
- <p> "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.
- </p>
- <p>JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA--Central African Republic
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>"BABY DOC" DUVALIER--Haiti
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>ERICH HONECKER--East Germany
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>ALFREO STROESSNER--Paraguay
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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