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...Last Farewell To Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Idi Amin, Dr. Atkins and Mr. Rogers, Carney, Cash, Kazan and Kate...
...these creditors pushed questionable loans on developing countries. Prominent among the loan recipients were a cast of unscrupulous dictators who used the easy cash to pad their Swiss bank accounts and repress their own citizens. Selfless leaders like Mubutu of Zaire, Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto of Indonesia, and Idi Amin of Uganda may no longer be in power, but thanks to the debt they incurred their legacies live...
...North Korea ( A ) went on Ritalin. ( B ) proposed Idi Amin for a posthumous Nobel Prize. ( C ) fired its longtime p.r. firm...
...DIED. IDI AMIN, 80, utterly ruthless former dictator of Uganda; in Saudi Arabia, where he lived a life of luxury in exile with one of several wives and 22 of his children. During an eight-year reign that plunged a prosperous nation into desperate poverty, the onetime military boxing champ used slaughter as a form of statecraft. The son of a peasant farmer and a mother who practiced sorcery, the nearly illiterate Amin joined the British colonial army in 1946. Nine years after Uganda achieved independence in 1962, he led a successful coup, then embarked on murderous campaigns against political...
...Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...