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Chapter Three
Washington, D.C./November 25
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Caidin Administration insiders are silent about the sudden appearance in the United States of Anna Neville, sole survivor of a mysterious airplane accident last year in Canada. Beltway Whispers has been told that the accident and certain secret Canadian-American weapons tests are connected and that Neville's accident was no accident.
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BELTWAY WHISPERS," INSIDE WASHINGTON REPORT
John Morgan stirred restlessly as he waited in the outer room of the National Security Adviser's suite in the White House Executive Wing. It was seven in the morning of a blustery, rainy November Sunday, but this morning's traffic into and out of Kellner's office would have been considered heavy, even for a weekday. Morgan had a slight headache, the result of a reunion the night before with some Naval Academy classmates. The ring of the telephone at five A.M. had not been a welcome sound.

 
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