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for lift-off. "A nice machine," sniffed Svatopluk.<br />

"Remember those S-Sixty-four Skycranes, military<br />

transport helicopters? Huge, excuse me, ah-CHOO!<br />

The Vietnamese have probably turned them all into<br />

restaurants by now.<br />

Yes, I admit, machines are impressive. But don't<br />

you forget, all the weaponry a Skycrane could carry<br />

would be nothing more than a bee's belch compared to<br />

Pasteurella pestis carried in the front stomach of a<br />

flea."<br />

The head of the base was worried. What would<br />

happen to his boys, not to mention his base, if<br />

Washington (lashed by Wolton) suddenly flung itself<br />

into one of its periodic flagellating spates of moral selfcontempt?<br />

Eagerly was equally uneasy. Word was that Wolton<br />

was looking for a seat somewhere on the Hill, or in the<br />

cabinet. If he got on his high horse with this bit of news<br />

about germ warfare, so called, between his teeth, he<br />

could gallop it God knows where. With that kind of<br />

copy he'd be all over the front page, he could stir up all<br />

the old nests—the pacifists, the environmentalists, the

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