Mobutu Sese Seko, a former strongman, used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris.

蒙博托·塞塞·塞科曾经是位强人。 他曾用国家资金，坐着协和号包机，飞到巴黎购物。

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He was also chief doctor of Zaire's army and personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko.

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President Suharto, like Mr Mobutu and Mr Castro, is a product of the cold war.

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It was made worse after 1973 when Mr Mobutu began to nationalise mines and industries.

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Its cocktail of Congolese Tutsis, exiled academics and old-style Mobutu supporters became increasingly fractious.

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