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His successor, a military man by the name of Mobutu, cynically learned the ropes and ruled with an iron fist but also with an open palm for more than 30 years.
Mary Anne Mercer: Food Today, None Tomorrow Mary Anne Mercer 2012
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His successor, a military man by the name of Mobutu, cynically learned the ropes and ruled with an iron fist but also with an open palm for more than 30 years.
Mary Anne Mercer: Food Today, None Tomorrow Mary Anne Mercer 2012
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In the first story, he is a teenager in Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire — the latest posting for his father, a minor Yugoslav diplomat — and thinks of Joseph Conrad’s phrase inhabited devastation as he travels to the slums of Kinshasa with a man who may or may not be be an American spy.
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He would be agreeing to steer a ship we call Mobutu, "he added.
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He would be agreeing to steer a ship we call Mobutu, "he added.
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In a letter to his daughter in the mid-1960s, the CIA's Desmond FitzGerald called Mobutu's government "a joke, almost."
Goodbye, Mobutu? 2008
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White House spokesman Mike McCurry on Wednesday called Mobutu's three-decade dictatorship "a creature of history."
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The first meeting last week failed to resolve what one Western diplomat called Mobutu's and Kabila's "irreconcilable differences."
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The pomp and circumstance recall Mobutu's good old days, immortalized on ministry building walls plastered with yellowing photographs of the uniformed dictator receiving American and
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When you enter Congo, sometimes it enters you as in the case of amoeba that is called Mobutu that got into my system and brought me down.
News Dissector Blog 2009
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