41.   Many people in Myanmar, also known as Burma, take numerology very seriously, though nine is usually associated with former military strongman Ne Win.

42.   One told reporters that he spent an hour chatting with the former strongman, who appeared tired but alert.

43.   One of them told reporters that he spent an hour chatting with the former strongman, who appeared tired but alert.

44.   Police vehicles converged on the house of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday after an aide said the former strongman was likely to be arrested.

45.   Prosecutors demanded Monday that former military strongman Chun Doo-hwan be sentenced to death for presiding over one of the darkest eras in South Korean history.

46.   Prosecutors asked an appeals court Monday to affirm the death sentence imposed on former military strongman Chun Doo-hwan for mutiny and treason.

47.   Prosecution lawyers and relatives of victims of repression under Pinochet reacted with disappointment to the new ruling in the long legal saga involving the former strongman.

48.   Relations soured earlier this month, when the Dutch issued an international arrest warrant for former Surinamese military strongman Desi Bouterse.

49.   So it was no surprise to find the former Serbian strongman bristling with irritable indignation when placed in the dock at The Hague yesterday.

50.   Several Bulgarian top athletes have founded a commercial bank and offered free shares to former Communist strongman Todor Zhivkov, news reports said Wednesday.