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He noted that Vice President Helen Du Pray was present, as was Theodore Tappey, the CIA chief. He was always surprised that a woman was Vice President of the United States. He felt that science ruled against something like this. In his researches on the brain he always felt he would someday come upon a fundamental difference between the male and female brains and was amused that he did not. Amused because if he found a discrepancy the fur would fly in a delightful way.

Theodore Tappey he always regarded as Neanderthal. Indulging in those futile machinations for a slight degree of advantage in foreign affairs against fellow members of the human race. So futile an endeavor in the long run.

Dr. A

So now he studied the paper on tachyons. Did tachyons really exist?

Physicists had been quarreling about that for the last twenty years.

Tachyons, if they existed, would fracture Einstein's theories; tachyons would travel faster than the speed of light, which Einstein had said was impossible. Sure, there was the apology that tachyons were already moving faster than light from the begi

Finally the President made his entrance and the people in the room stood up. Dr. A

Francis Ke

After greeting them he said, "We have Dr. A

Helen Du Pray felt she must ask the question. "Mr. President, in your speech to Congress you said Yabril was part of the atom bomb conspiracy. You were emphatic. Was that based on hard evidence?"

Ke

"But on what hard evidence?" Oddblood Gray pressed. Ke

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Christian said quickly, "We were in the middle of what we thought was a far more important crisis, if you remember. I thought it could wait another day. Gresse and Tibbot claimed they were i

Vice President Du Pray said, "Christian, do you have any idea how Tibbot Senior was tipped off?"

Christian said, "We are going over all the telephone company records in Boston to check the origin of calls received by Tibbot Senior. So far no luck."

The head of the CIA, Theodore Tappey, said, "With all your high-tech equipment, you should have found out."

"Helen, you've got them off on a tangent," Ke

What we have here is really a scurrilous attack by the news media supported by the members of Congress. I want to pose a specific question. Do we eliminate any collusion between Yabril and Professors Tibbot and Gresse by having the PET brain scan done on all of them? Would that solve the problem?"

Dr. A

"Besides," Dazzy added, "with their legal defense we'll never get anywhere near those kids."

President Ke

There may still be a conspiracy going on. And it may involve much more than New York City. Other members of the terrorist First Hundred could plant other nuclear devices. Now do you understand?"

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Ke

Arthur Wix said, "There will be one hell of an uproar. They'll claim we're performing a lobotomy."

Eugene Dazzy said dryly, "Aren't we?"

Dr. A

"Unless there's a little slipup," Dazzy said.

The press secretary, Matthew Gladyce, said, "Mr. President, the outcome of the test will dictate what kind of a

Ke

Eugene Dazzy read from the memo in front of him. "The Congress wants to haul Christian up in front of one of their investigating committees.

Senator Lambertino and Congressman Jintz want to take a crack at him.

They are claiming, and they planted it all over in the media, that Attorney General Christian Klee is the key to any fu

"Invoke executive privilege," Ke