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Byline: Harold E. Acemah
Col. Muammar Gaddafi is a classic case study of a person the French call, "les enfant terrible", whom everybody loves to hate for a variety of reasons. I encountered President Gaddafi several times at international conferences and right from the first time I saw him at an OAU Summit in 1971, I got the impression that Gaddafi was either an eccentric genius or a mad man. His rugged and unkempt look reminds me of Professor King, Head of the Philosophy Department at Makerere when I was a freshman in 1967.
Col. Gaddafi ascended the political stage on September 1, 1969, when the army overthrew King Idris of Libya, then a poor country. Gaddafi was …