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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the more rococo NYE-Y2K fetes I've seen advertised suggest a collaborative extravaganza mounted by Donald Trump and Emperor Bokassa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Believe the Hype | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

DIED. JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA, 75, ex-Central African President and self-proclaimed Emperor who ruled for 13 years as one of Africa's most brutal despots; in Bangui. His lavish, bizarre and murderous ways embarrassed his chief patron, France, which finally helped depose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the so-called Butcher of Bangui who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1979, was released from prison last September. During his six years of incarceration he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity and declared himself the 13th Apostle of Christ. He lives alone, under informal guard, in a small three-bedroom house in downtown Bangui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Love Jeddah in the Springtime | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Sep. 13, 1993 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Bloody "Bokassa I" of Central African Republic freed from jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Sep. 13, 1993 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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