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Chapter Thirty-One
Washington, D.C./December 1
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Four more deaths due to acute radiation exposure have been reported in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Prime Minister Ian Halloran has run to Washington looking for answers.
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In his guarded room at Bethesda Naval Hospital Arkady Karmann lay breathing with difficulty beneath the crackling clear plastic of an oxygen tent. His symptoms had slightly ameliorated after massive infusions of blood plasma had been poured into him by the military paramedics aboard the navy helicopter that had brought him from North Carolina.
He no longer felt that he could suffocate at any moment. His limbs felt warmer than they had since crossing the Rio Grande at Brownsville. In the guarded room, a machine monitored his vital signs, and every fifteen minutes a naval officer nurse looked in on him.
The prize GKNT defector, Karmann thought. Is that what these Americans saw, why they took such good care of him?

 
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