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Chapter Two
The Rosario Bank/
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January 6
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President Cherny has many well-wishers in the United States and Europe. He has succeeded in attracting large infusions of Western capital into his struggling Russian economy. But one must realize that the old Soviet regime was never destroyed; it just ground to a halt, leaving in place the people and framework of a planned society.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
It had distressed Arkady Karmann to ask permission to go on deck five hours after the submarine had cleared the Yucatan Passage, but the petty officer of the deck had been too ill to protest. Though both Krasny and Captain Kolodin still denied it, plutonium poisoning raged aboard the Pravda. Since clearing the Davis Strait, six sailors and an officer had died. Their bodies were frozen in the food locker. Kolodin had

 
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