{"id":1029,"date":"2003-07-20T23:38:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/20\/idi-amin-in-coma-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2003-07-20T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2003-07-21T03:38:30","slug":"idi-amin-in-coma-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/20\/idi-amin-in-coma-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Idi Amin in Coma in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a338'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/idi.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"128\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"326\"><strong><font size=\"+1\">End of an Era pt II<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era. The flamboyant giants who strode the earth during the<br \/>\nsecond half of the past century are slowly fading into history. Papa Doc Duvalier<br \/>\nhas joined the other Loas in Vodun, and his pale imitation of a son\/successor<br \/>\nBaby Doc is still holed up in the south of France. The enigmatic and grandiose<br \/>\nHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Elect of<br \/>\nGod, who not only<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p>claimed to be a direct descendent of King Solomon and the<br \/>\n        Queen<br \/>\nof Sheba but finally declared HIMSELF a God, is now worshiped in<br \/>\n        the afterlife by the Rastafarians. The Shady Shah of Iran, Ferdinand<br \/>\n        and Imelda, roly-poly Ruhollah<br \/>\n        Khomeni and Uncle<br \/>\n  Ho are no more.<\/p>\n<p>Now news that Idi Amin Dada, an authentic sportsman who was once the legitimate<br \/>\n      heavyweight champion of Africa, and who later declared himself Field Marshal,<br \/>\n      King of Scotland and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,1002157,00.html\">has gone<br \/>\n      into a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,1002157,00.html\">From<br \/>\n    the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of an Era pt II It&#8217;s the end of an era. The flamboyant giants who strode the earth during the second half of the past century are slowly fading into history. Papa Doc Duvalier has joined the other Loas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/20\/idi-amin-in-coma-in-saudi-arabia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}