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NAMED. FIDEL CASTRO, 76, to a sixth consecutive term as President of the Council of State, Cuba's supreme governing body; in Havana. Castro is now the world's longest-serving head of state and has been Cuba's unchallenged strongman since 1959, when his guerrilla movement, led by Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, overthrew the island-state's military dictatorship. In 1962, Castro almost caused a nuclear war when he allowed the then Soviet Union to base long-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, prompting a tense face-off between Washington and Moscow until the Soviets backed down and removed...
That is not exactly the vision Bush has sold of a new, democratic Iraq. Arab diplomats, however, believe that the White House has come to see the advantage of replacing Saddam with a friendlier strongman rather than with a rainbow coalition of supposed Iraqi democrats. Their calculation: a stable Iraq would be easier for the U.S. to manage after the war ends, require less messy nation building and reduce the chances that whole U.S. Army divisions would have to occupy Iraq for years. "Saner heads are prevailing," says a Western diplomat in the region. "All the talk about remaking...
MANUEL NORIEGA Panama The former strongman is serving a 30-year jail sentence in Miami on drug and racketeering charges. He has done 10 years and could be released...
...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman...
...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman...