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Chapter Ten
Alameda Naval Air Station/November 27
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An epidemic of what appears to be a hitherto unknown form of immunodeficiency syndrome is reported to have developed among the Inuit of the Northwest Territories in the vicinity of Eskimo Point, a fishing village on the western shore of Hudson Bay. However, authorities in Ottawa discount it. A spokesperson for the Department of Indian Affairs stated yesterday: "AIDS is not a problem among Canadian Native populations."
MANITOBA OBSERVER
As the hornet rolled to a stop outside the Operations Building at Alameda, a gray U.S. Navy staff car advanced to meet it under the floodlights. The rain fell steadily, forming a curtain through which could be seen the looming shapes of the cantilever sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, its graceful lines limned by the amber of the sodium vapor lights illuminating the roadbed.
Morgan came down the ladder from the Hornet's rear seat and was met by a line crewman who informed him that a Mr.

 
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