1.   All of them came to power through armed rebellion against corrupt dictators but have put off full-fledged democracy in favor of economic development.

2.   But the older generation still believes strongly in the revolution and the guerrillas who tossed out the corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista.

3.   Corrupt dictators and their business partners can still legally deposit their loot in American financial institutions.

4.   Even under the notoriously corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines cleaned up a crooked tax-collection bureau.

5.   For most of its half-century as an independent country, Indonesia has been ruled by corrupt dictators who trampled the rule of law.

6.   In Mali, Benin, the Republic of the Congo and elsewhere, citizens who organized to demand democracy were overthrowing corrupt dictators.

7.   Last year, Peru managed to replace Alberto Fujimori, a corrupt dictator, in a democratic transition, but now faces severe economic problems.

8.   Unfortunately, there is still no criminal penalty for laundering the funds of corrupt dictators.

9.   His government has been the target of protests both at home and in Paris, organized by dissidents who depict Djohar as a corrupt dictator.

10.   Kabila, a former rebel leader, ousted corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko from the former Zaire last May.