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or environmentally, the situation is a nightmare. The submarine you saw was almost certainly a Russian vessel, manned by Russian sailors. And the photographs you took confirm it." |
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Anna Neville gasped in shock. "You have my pictures?" |
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"Yes." Halloran's face was again impassive. |
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Anna rose to her feet in outrage, ignoring the pain in her stiffened muscles. "And you let me come down here and accuse the American navy?" Suddenly she tasted bile, the flavor of her stupidity and their betrayal. "You and your psychiatristshow did you get them to sell out, get them to try to convince me I was hallucinating?" She sank back into her chair. |
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President Caidin looked over at Ian Halloran with an expression of injured self-righteousness, the look of the unjustly accused. Anna could imagine how their earlier discussion of this point had goneHalloran on the defensive, Caidin outraged and demanding, both playing a game that had already turned deadly. |
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Halloran said in exasperation, "Mrs. Neville, you are naive. We couldn't accuse the Russians of so provocative an act. We had only two clear long-range photographs, which you had taken at a time of great stress. There is nothing in either picture to prove that the craft was in Canadian waters, after all. The Russians could wriggle out by saying it could have been taken anywhere in the Arctic." |
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Anna could not help saying caustically, "Of course you knew where I was; wasn't that proof enough where it was taken? And then you let me accuse the Americans? Because you knew they wouldn't attack, and the Russians might? By the way, would the film have been more acceptable as proof if it had been taken by my husband?" |
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"When the Americans showed us their satellite images," the Prime Minister said, ignoring her thrust, "we knew a Russian boat had actually been in Hudson Strait. And your photographs had to be enhanced and studied." |
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"For a year, Prime Minister?" Anna asked bitterly. "And |
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