The Little Book of Loony DictatorsThe Equatorial Guinean president Macias Nguema once initiated a cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his foreign minister to death.Idi Amin entertained his fellow African presidents by demonstrating how to suffocate someone with a handkerchief.In 1956 Chairman Mao's Sports Minister recognized a new track-and-field event, the hand-grenade throw.Adolf Hitler tried to cure his chronic flatulence by drinking machine-gun oil.In...