51.   Yet Pakistan remained mired in poverty and ruled by a succession of military dictators.

52.   President Hugo Banzer, a former military dictator, says extremist groups linked to the cocaine trafficking industry are trying to destabilize the country.

53.   Police investigating the slaying of a federal lawmaker arrested a former army officer Wednesday and relatives of a former military dictator.

54.   Police searching for illegal weapons arrested a former army officer and two relatives of a former military dictator, an official said Wednesday.

55.   Rawlings, a former military dictator, won elections last year in elections that were considered free and fair.

56.   A group of Sudanese pro-democracy journalists and lawyers vowed Thursday to challenge the return of former military dictator Gaafar Nimeiri.

57.   A Nigerian court has dismissed a bid to block the presidential nomination of military dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

58.   Abacha has not declared that he will run in the poll although he is widely seen to be engineering his transformation from military dictator to civilian president.

59.   A pro-democracy crusader who survived years in prison and exile and assassination attempts by former military dictators, Kim was making his fourth run for the presidency.

60.   A puppet government installed under a later military dictator passed a law granting them amnesty.