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The old spin, articulated by Bob Dole in the Los Angeles Times : Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic is up to his old brutality and, if another Bosnia is to be averted, NATO must quickly impose a no-fly zone and threaten airstrikes.
More reliable records come with the next major dynasty, the Malla, who were established in about 1200 by the strongman Ari Malla.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.
Lawyers for Oviedo, once the army strongman behind Paraguay's disgraced President Raúl Cubas, said that Oviedo's plastic surgeon doesn't want the general's scalp exposed to sun or wind for several months.
Will the strongman of the era be AOL, AT&T, Microsoft, or one of the big media companies?