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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | April 7, 1997 issue

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The article focuses on Colonel John Boyd who died in Florida at the age of 70 and though the Air Force honored him on March 20, 1997 with a funeral in Arlington, complete with guard and fly-by, there are doubtless many souls in the Pentagon relieved that so troublesome an intellect is no longer on active service. The article also focuses on triumphs of political leader Laurent Kabila and his forces against the Mobutu regime in Zaire. It seems to the author that this is one of the first cases where one could argue that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the official end of the cold war has made it harder for the imperial powers to engineer an efficient intervention against Kabila.

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BOYD, John; ARMED Forces; FUNERAL rites & ceremonies; KABILA, Laurent; POLITICAL leadership; COLD War; INTERVENTION (International law)
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