21.   Police said other stolen objects recovered in the apartment included a pistol that belonged to the late communist dictator Enver Hoxha.

22.   Rebels accused Aguinaldo of mass torture during the regime of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and of numerous killings.

23.   A former bodyguard of the late Malawian dictator Hastings Banda was charged Wednesday with withholding evidence after he publicly apologized for the brutal abuses that occurred under that regime.

24.   A former court poet to late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, he is a senator for the Greater Romania Party, which controls one-fourth of parliamentary seats.

25.   A grandson of the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was named Thursday to lead an alliance of Communists and other leftist groups in campaigning for parliamentary elections in October.

26.   A planned dinner with the democratically elected Kucan at Brdo Castle, former residence of the late dictator Josip Broz Tito, would dramatize that change.

27.   A German journalist told a Philippine Senate committee Thursday that Union Bank of Switzerland admitted holding an account of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

28.   A sister of the late Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, has died of bone marrow cancer, the state news agency Rompres said Thursday.

29.   A Swiss judge said Tuesday he has indicted the son of the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha in connection with a billion dollar money-laundering investigation.

30.   Abubakar, who took control in June following the death of the late dictator Gen. Sani Abacha, has promised the military will not intervene in the transition.