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What's wrong with most of the black population being integrated into the middle class?"

"What you're proposing is to wipe out a big part of a generation of young blacks," Gray said. "That's the bottom line. I say no." He paused for a moment and then said, "Say I trust you, Francis, what about the next President? He may use that camp to imprison political revolutionaries."

"That's not my intent," Ke

That statement chilled Gray. Was Ke

"It's not all that simple," he said. And then boldly: "You could change."

And at that moment he could feel Ke

"Either you are with me or you are not," Ke

Gray saw that Ke

"I'll give you my answer after the inaugural," Gray said. "But, Francis, this is agony for me, don't betray me. If my people have to freeze their black asses in Alaska, I want a lot of white asses to freeze with them."

President Ke

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He listened with less amusement when Gray, Wix and Dazzy agreed with the Vice President. He had correctly predicted that Christian Klee would not speak.

They were all watching Ke

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" We'll make them," Ke

Very deliberately he rose and walked to the doors that looked out onto the Rose Garden. Then he said, "I will show how much I believe in this. Our enemies constantly accuse me of being responsible for the atom bomb going off. They say that I could have stopped it. Euge, I want you to help Dr. A

He smiled at Klee. "They will ask the question 'Are you in any way responsible for the explosion of the atom bomb. And I will answer." He paused for a moment and then said, "I will take the test, and so will my Attorney General. Right, Chris?"

"Sure," Klee joked uneasily. "But you first."

At Walter Reed Hospital, the suite reserved for President Ke

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A large slide showed on the huge white screen in front of them. Then another, and another. Brilliant colors appeared, lighting up the different parts of the brain as patients read, listened or spoke. Or simply just thought about the meaning of a word. Dr. A

"In essence, under the PET scan," Dr. A

That appears during speech. In the front of the brain, a similar spot lights up during the thinking process. Over these images we have laid a magnetic resonance image of the brain's anatomy. The whole brain is now a magic lantern."

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Startlingly, in the center of the white spot there was now a circle of red within a larger yellow irregular field. "The subject is lying," Dr. A

"Now we will proceed to the examining room," he said.

Inside the lead-walled room, Francis Ke

Behind him a large long metal cylinder loomed. As Dr. A

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In a room five stories below, in the basement of the hospital, a pneumatic tube held a syringe containing radioactive oxygen, a cyclotron of tagged water.

When the order came from the sca

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