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Monday: Claimed in an interview with David Frost that Bill Clinton "would like to be the one ruler in the world" and said, "without dictatorship you could not rule my country" ... Tuesday: Warned a Russian reporter, "Every day you slander the country, and then you are surprised that journalists go missing. If you provoke such incidents, they will certainly kill you." Zhirinovsky did not clarify whom he meant by "they" ... Wednesday: Challenged by a Russian newsman to prove that he is uncircumcised, he blushed, saying, "No, no, I can't show, but you can visit my doctors, and they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Beat | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...lost but we worked really well," Song said."We were going to be a dictatorship, but when westarted interacting, we felt sympathy for the redteam, and we made all these concessions...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Mediators Begin Training Process | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Sachs warned that economic troubles in Russia could create a political climate ripe for a dictatorship...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Sachs Quits As Economic Consultant To Yeltsin | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...name mentioned as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. Soon after, he shocked supporters by recanting, on national TV, his entire code of beliefs. More than a decade later, he became Georgia's first freely elected President, only to stun everyone again, this time by forging a brutish dictatorship whose excesses provoked his own violent ouster. Last week, after a 20-month exile in which he fought an unsuccessful war to regain power, Zviad Gamsakhurdia carried out his most baffling flourish yet, shrouding his apparent death in the same jumble of contradictions with which he lived his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Zviad | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...summary executions to a proposal to turn the Kremlin into a round-the-clock entertainment center, with museums, restaurants and bars. One theme, however, has remained firm ever since he first sounded it in 1991: "I say it quite plainly -- when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship." More recently he has added, "You cannot rule by waving a chocolate bar in front of those you're trying to rule. Or brandish only a whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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