Deposed Dictators: Is There Life After Tyranny?

By PAUL GRAY/

IDI AMIN

Uganda

"The world's most dangerous man" (1971-79), Amin fled with his wives, children and entourage to Saudi Arabia. Tried returning to Uganda through Zaire last year and was kicked out. The Saudis allowed him back but restricted his access to phone lines.

JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA

Central African Republic

The "Butcher of Bangui's" reign of torture was ended by a French-backed coup in 1979. He should have read Thomas Wolfe while living in opulent exile near Paris: returning home in 1986, he was arrested, then tried. He is under house arrest for life.

"BABY DOC" DUVALIER

Haiti

The first of four Haitian leaders to take the air shuttle to exile, Duvalier lives on the Cote d'Azur. Though a court dismissed Haiti's $120 million suit to recover embezzled funds, money isn't everything. Bored with the good life, wife Michele divorced him.

ERICH HONECKER

East Germany

Angry protesters demanded that the ailing former Premier move from both a comfortable village residence and a Protestant parsonage outside Berlin. He's now recovering from an operation for kidney cancer at a Soviet sanatorium near Potsdam.

ALFREO STROESSNER

Paraguay

Thought to be indestructible after 34 years in power, this senior Western dictator was ousted by his longtime second-in-command, General Andres Rodriguez. The general now lives on a hilltop in friendly Brazil, though his wife moved to Miami without him.

With reporting by DAVID ELLIS