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spent in upgrading
Brazelton's operations, the engineers we've supported, the design and
development costs. All they look
at is the markup over the direct production costs. So we need to make sure
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Alredd wins the election.
"We can't. It's not possible, Chris. Dewey's got such a base among the
servies, close to seventy percent.
He's got sixty percent of the sariman, and forty percent of the filch.
I understood the numbers. What I didn't understand was the forty percent of
the filch. Dewey was a
populist demagogue. He'd drain every filch he could. And forty percent would
vote for him. "You're sure
of that?"
"Absolutely.
"How much more can we give to Alredd?"
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"Even through all the avenues you've got, less than three million.
"Find out how much. Talk to O'Bannon, and make sure every single credit is
absolutely legal. Then tell
me what checks to write.
"You're throwing the credits away.
"No. I want every single credit we send from now on targeted against Dewey's
support of whatever
Alredd can call filch projects. The guideway legislation, the Southern
Diversion, and anything else. Talk
to O'Bannon. See if there's a way those ads can be run into Deseret District.
If not, have Hansen use the
same stuff, pointing out that the Dewey-Cannon conspiracy call it that is
designed to take Deseret
credits and pour them into the Capitol District.
"Cannon will still win. Hansen's facing more than an uphill battle.
"This time. We have to think more for the long term, my friend. Senators come
and go. We'll help
Cannon go."
"Cannon's one you don't want to tangle with, Chris. He'll let a lot slide, but
if you attack him, or threaten
him, he gets his back up.
"Then we don't apply force to him. We apply it to the things and people he
cares about.
"You don't want to make an enemy of the man, Chris.
"Heber& he's already an enemy. The question is what we do about it. And about
Dewey.
"I don't know that you can do much about Dewey.
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"I'll have my mother pray for a miracle, I suggested. "We could use it.
"I hope she prays well. Heber smiled. "Some of her prayers have been
answered. Then, we both knew
that we couldn't count on divine intervention. Not without help. "You're
staying for the weekend?"
"No. I'll leave tomorrow. Ruth's sister is hosting a family get-together
tomorrow night.
"Have a good time.
After Heber left, I had some thinking to do. Dewey would ruin KC, just on
principle, because he didn't
understand economics or business. Some of what he had in mind would undermine
the arrangement with
the Republic. I had some ideas, but, again, I didn't get far. Mr. O'Bannon is
waiting, Mr. Kemal. Send
him in.
O'Bannon slid into the office and eased into the chair he always took at the
conference table. He was like
a black tiger.
I sat down across from him. "What's the word?" "Your friends are upset. As you
instructed me, I told
them that the attack was carried out with obsolete technology. I also pointed
out that NorAm orbiter
wouldn't have been as vulnerable "
"The vulnerability was mostly because the Russeans don't like to cross anyone
else's airspace. The
Agkhanate had to know that. The Russeans also couldn't track the attackers.
They can't retaliate.
"Can you?"
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"Why would I want to, James? The attack just shows the problems of dealing
with the Russeans.
"The Republic might want to. "They'd get better terms on paper. Not in
practice.
They know that. Their hands are tied. They have to deal with EurCom or NorAm,
and they have to let
this attack pass. Oh, they could line up a metallic asteroid and accelerate it
at Earth. They could build up
enough velocity to make its deflection impossible, but they couldn't aim it
well enough to hit Kabul. They
could destroy civilization and possibly humanity on Earth. That destroys the
source of their technology
and all their markets. So it's an empty threat. That's why they're helping us.
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