The Tictators of Tomorrow Don't Think You Can Do Anything

In 1998, post-surgery Turkmen Boschie succeeded in getting a second chance to dance with Uncle Sam. He made some deals that included Unocal, an American corporation, helping Turkmenistan to build a gigantic pipeline. The Clinton administration asked Niazov to give them what hero's book calls a gesture towards democratization and would be invited to the White House. But he reneged on his promises now that he had the invitation and said that any constitutional amendments would have to wait until parliamentary elections in December of 1999.