How The Washington Post Reported Limann's Death In 1998

Hilla Limann, 64, who was ousted as president of Ghana in a 1981 coup after a brief rule also tried to reclaim the post in elections 11 years later, died on Jan.

He died as a result of a heart ailment complicationsHe was elected president in September 1979 and held that office through 1981, when he was toppled by a young Air Force fighter pilot, Lt.

Limann, who studied at the London School of Economics, ran for office as a candidate of the center-left People's National Party.The 1979 constitution was modeled on those of Western democracies.

It provided for the separation of powers between an elected president and a unicameral Parliament, an independent judiciary headed by a Supreme Court, which protected individual rights, and other autonomous institutions, such as the Electoral Commissioner and the Ombudsman.The new President, Dr.

Rawlings and a small group of enlisted and former soldiers launched a coup that succeeded against little opposition in toppling President LimannAfter the ban on political parties was lifted in 1992, Dr.

He ran for president that year, finishing a distant third in elections won by Rawlings.

Limann remained chairman of the People's National Convention Party, which obtained three percent of the vote.The late President Limann was survived by a wife and 7 children