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Chapter Seven
Brownsville, Texas/November 26
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Yevgeny Suvorov, the new Minister of Defense of Russia, is rumored to be affiliated with Soyuz, the nationalist and anti-Semitic movement headed by Piotr Kondratiev, former chief of state security, demoted last June by President Aleksandr Cherny.
If so, it is a chilling indication of how weak the Cherny government has become.
David Milstein, Minister of Industry and Finance, denies that any member of the Executive Committee is a member of Soyuz.
"Fascism has no place in the new Russia," Milstein told the Times-Dispatch.
NEW YORK TIMES-DISPATCH
The rain, falling in sheets through the darkness, made a rushing sound as it struck the surface of the shallow, swift-flowing river. The truck had deposited the migrants a mile from the southern bank of the river, far short of what was promised, but none of the fifty men and seven women dared complain.

 
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