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...funeral procession slowly made its way to the cemetery. There, amid more singing and chanting, Elizabeth Khumalo was buried, while in the distance, mounted security forces maintained their shadowy watch. By keeping order, they had done their job well. Even the bishop was pleased, and he told the colonel, "In trying to maintain unreasonable laws, you were reasonable and well behaved today, and I want to thank you for that...
Common sense had prevailed. Said Tutu with a twinkle in his eye: "I have always believed people to be saints until they proved themselves rogues." The colonel was more taciturn. "No comment" was all he could muster...
Later Tutu was able to smile at his confrontation with Colonel Nel. "He saluted me," the bishop chuckled. "Twice." --By William Stewart/Daveyton
...publisher, fresh off the plane from Johannesburg, breezes into the office and props his feet on a desk. "The Colonel," as he likes to be called, discusses upcoming story ideas. Should next month's cover feature a new machine gun, which the Colonel himself tested in South Africa? What's the latest battlefront news from Afghanistan and El Salvador? The executive editor is there, but not the small-arms editor or the sniping-countersniping editor. The meeting soon breaks up, but not before the Colonel warns a staffer headed for Central America, "Be careful down there...
...this is not the office of Vanity Fair. Perhaps the only place where such a story conference could occur is at Soldier of Fortune, the macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine...