In neighboring Turkmenistan , President Saparmurat Niyazov -- a despot who requires all clocks to bear his likeness and renamed the days of the week after his family -- solved the problem by simply declaring plain salt illegal in 1996 and ordering shops to give each citizen 11 pounds of iodized salt a year at state expense .
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Saparmurat Niyazov
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Turkmenistan
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