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By Robert D. Mcfadden / The Bulletin
October 8, 2011
Ramiz Alia, a cult-of-personality enforcer who succeeded Albania’s Communist dictator Enver Hoxha after his death in 1985 and presided over halting and often chaotic moves toward democracy before his own downfall in 1992, died Friday. He was 85.
His death was announced by a spokeswoman for....