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"Q:\n\nAction Bar in Android Studio 1.5 Upgrade\n\nCan someone explain what is happening here. ",
"I load a blank Activity and two xml files are created in Android Studio; the content_main.xml, which contains all of my widgets, and activity_main.xml, which includes my contents file and looks like this:\n\nI don't want to use this Toolbar so I delete it. ",
"Now the activity_main.xml file looks like this:\n\nI still want to have an actionBar however. ",
"My manifest file, clearly references a theme in my styles folder:\n\nAnd here is is the styles.xml file, which sets a theme for the Action Bar:\nHow come, when I start the emulator, my action bar is missing? ",
"My main_activity extends AppCompatActivity. ",
"Any idea why this is happening?",
"\n\nA:\n\nyou are activity is overriding the Application's theme and using the NoActionBar theme. ",
"Get rid of android:theme from the <activity tag\nChange from\n <activity\n android:theme=\"@style/AppTheme.",
"NoActionBar\"\n android:name=\".",
"MainActivity\"\n android:label=\"@string/app_name\">\n\nto\n <activity\n android:name=\".",
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"Q:\n\nC++ Vector Operator+/-, duplicate-removal\n\nI need to implement the operator + & -, and duplicate-removal vector' element.",
"\nHow can i made the operator function so that the output become like this :\nb1 : [ 1 2 3 4 ]\nb2 : [ 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ]\nb1 + b2 : [ 1 2 3 4 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ] \nb1 - b2 : [ 1 3 ]\nb2 duplicate : [ 1 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ]\nb2 remove duplicate : [ 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ] \n\nthe main part :\n#include <iostream>\n#include <cstdlib>\n#include \"MyNumber.cpp\"\nusing namespace std;\n\nint main() {\nMyNumber<int> b1;\nMyNumber<int> b2;\n\n for(int i=1; i<=3;i++)\n {\n b1.push_back(i);\n }\nfor(int i=1;i<=10;i++)\n{\n b2.push_back(i*2);\n}\n\ncout << \"b1 : \" << b1.toString() << endl;\ncout << \"b2 : \" << b2.toString() << endl;\n\ncout << \"b1 + b2 : \" << (b1 + b2).toString() << endl << endl;\ncout << \"b1 - b2 : \" << (b1 - b2).toString() << endl;\n\nfor(int i=0;i<4;i++){\n b2.duplicate(i+i,1);\n}\n\nb2.insert(0,1);\ncout << \"b2 duplicate : \" << b2.toString() << endl;\n\nb2.removeDuplicate();\ncout << \"b2 remove duplicate : \" << b2.toString() << endl << endl;\n\nreturn 0;\n }\n\nHere is the code without the operator function :\n#include <iostream>\n#include <string>\n#include <sstream>\n#include <stdexcept>\n#include <algorithm>\n\nusing namespace std;\n\ntemplate <typename B>\nclass MyNumber\n{\nprivate :\n static const size_t BEGINNING_CAPACITY =10;\n size_t _capacity; \n size_t _size; \n B* _data; // array' element\n\npublic :\n // Constructor\n MyNumber<B>() : _capacity(BEGINNING_CAPACITY),\n _size(0),\n _data(new B[BEGINNING_CAPACITY])\n {}\n\n //Destructor\n ~MyNumber<B>()\n {\n delete[] _data;\n }\n\n //Copy Constructor\n MyNumber<B>(const MyNumber<B>& OtherNumber) :\n _capacity(OtherNumber._capacity),\n _size(OtherNumber._size),\n _data(new B[_capacity])\n {\n for(size_t i = 0; i < _size; i++)\n _data[i] = OtherNumber._data[i];\n }\n\n // template function swap STL algorithm\n void swap(MyNumber<B>& OtherNumber)\n {\n swap(_size, OtherNumber._size);\n swap(_capacity, OtherNumber._capacity);\n swap(_data, OtherNumber._data);\n }\n\n MyNumber<B>& operator= (const MyNumber<B>& OtherNumber)\n {\n\n MyNumber<B> copy(OtherNumber);\n exchange(copy);\n return *this;\n }\n\n // Operator indexing []\n B& operator[] (size_t index)\n {\n if(index < 0 || index >= _size)\n {\n throw out_of_range(\"Index operator [] out of range\");\n }\n return _data[index];\n }\n\n //Function for adding new element\n void push_back(const B& elemen)\n {\n if(_size == _capacity)\n {\n expand(2 *_capacity);\n }\n _data[_size] = elemen;\n _size++;\n }\n\n //Function for inserting\n void insert(size_t index, const B& elemen)\n {\n if(index < 0 || index > _size) \n {\n throw out_of_range(\"index insert out of range\");\n }\n if(_size == _capacity)\n {\n expand(2 * _capacity);\n }\n\n for(size_t i = _size; i > index; i--)\n {\n _data[i] = _data[i-1];\n }\n _data[index] = elemen;\n _size++;\n }\n\n //Function for representing the vector\n string toString()\n {\n ostringstream oss;\n oss << \"[ \";\n for(int i = 0; i < _size; ++i)\n oss << _data[i] << \" \";\n oss << \"]\";\n return oss.str();\n }\n\nStuck here :\nMyNumber<B>& operator+ (MyNumber<B>& OtherNumber){\n}\n\nMyNumber<B>& operator- (MyNumber<B>& OtherNumber){\n} \n\nvoid duplicate(size_t index, size_t n){\n}\n\nvoid removeDuplicate(){} \n\n};\n\nA:\n\nFor + operator, check std::vector::insert.",
"\nFor - operator, this link.",
"\nTo create the duplicate, you must simply sort the vector with std::sort but it's not clear from your example.",
"\nTo remove duplicates, this link can be helpful.",
"\nYou must simply apply these informations on your operators and methods.",
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"Health Environment presents outcomes of joined collaborative projects among Osaka University, Can Tho University, Yunnan University, National University of Mongolia under the theme of health-environment, global environmental risk and local sustainability.",
"\n\nGuidelines for Submission\n\n1. ",
"The Health Environment Journal is a peer-reviewed and academic e-journal (not printed paper based) and has obtained the Japanese formal registration for the right of publication. ",
"It also has the International Standard Book Number or ISBN.",
"\n\n2. ",
"Contributors must satisfy the following conditions:\nA. He/She must be a researcher or a graduate student from the following universities: Osaka University (Osaka in Japan), Puer University (Yunnan in China), Can Tho University (Can Tho in Viet Nam) or National University of Mongolia(Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia).B. If the contributor is not affiliated to any of the universities mentioned in item A, then he/she must obtain a recommendation from one of the members of the Editorial Board of the journal.",
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"The APA style of citation is to be used consistently in the manuscript.",
"\n\n6. ",
"Subject of the email should be the author's name and title of the article. ",
"A self-introduction, written in 3-4 sentences, which consists of the author's affiliation and research interest should be included in the body of the email. ",
"Figures,, tables and pictures should be sent as separate files; it should be indicated in the manuscript where these figures and tables should be inserted.",
"\n\n7. ",
"All submitted articles will be subjected to reviews by six referees selected by the Editorial Board and to English check and editing.",
"\n\n8. ",
"The Editorial Board, when needed, requests reviewers from Osaka University and other academic organizations or research institutions in the critiquing of contributions.",
"\n\n9. ",
"In principle, a manuscript can only be submitted, but the revised manuscript of an originally non-English thesis can be accepted."
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"Southampton sign Rodriguez\n\nSouthampton have begun preparations for life back in the Premier League by breaking their transfer record to sign Burnley's Jay Rodriguez.",
"\n\nThe 22-year-old has long been linked with a move to the south coast and Saints reportedly failed with bids last summer and in January. ",
"However, Nigel Adkins now has his man as Rodriguez has signed a four-year deal at St Mary's after leaving the Clarets for an undisclosed fee.",
"\n\nPress Association Sport understands the deal to be worth £6million, which breaks Southampton's long-standing transfer record, set when they signed Derby's Rory Delap for £4million in 2001."
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"Introduction {#sec1_1}\n============\n\nIn patients with chronic liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis C, hereditary hemochromatosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, iron depletion by phlebotomy improves serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels \\[[@B1], [@B2], [@B3], [@B4]\\]. ",
"Nonresponder patients still exist, although antiviral treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients have been developed, and these new therapies are currently available \\[[@B5], [@B6], [@B7], [@B8]\\]. ",
"Several treatments have proven to reduce serum ALT levels, such as phlebotomy, ursodeoxycholic acid and Stronger Neo-Minophagen C, a glycyrrhizin \\[[@B9]\\]. ",
"These treatments might be effective in HCV-infected patients without achieving a sustained virological response \\[[@B9]\\].",
"\n\nIron overload is one of the abnormal laboratory values in patients with chronic hepatitis C, showing elevation of the serum ferritin level \\[[@B10]\\]. ",
"About 30--40% of patients with chronic HCV infection have elevated serum iron, transferrin saturation and heightened ferritin levels \\[[@B11]\\]. ",
"Hepcidin is a 25-amino-acid peptide that is synthesized in the liver and modulates iron homeostasis in the body \\[[@B11], [@B12]\\]. ",
"Hepcidin is a type II acute phase protein whose upregulation systemically suspends iron absorption from intestinal enterocytes and iron recycling from macrophages \\[[@B11]\\]. ",
"Patients infected with HCV have reduced serum hepcidin levels, which are correlated with worse necroinflammation and fibrosis of the liver \\[[@B12], [@B13]\\]. ",
"Thus, hepcidin may play a role in the pathogenesis of iron overload in patients with chronic hepatitis C \\[[@B14]\\].",
"\n\nIt was reported that serum ferritin is an independent predictor of histological severity and advanced fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) \\[[@B15]\\]. ",
"Patients with alcoholic liver disease frequently exhibit increased body iron stores, as reflected by higher serum ferritin levels and hepatic iron concentration \\[[@B16]\\]. ",
"It is unknown whether iron depletion by phlebotomy is a useful therapy, although phlebotomy improves serum ferritin levels \\[[@B17], [@B18]\\].",
"\n\nIn Japan, the average age of patients infected with HCV is becoming increasingly higher. ",
"Many HCV-infected older people did not respond to peginterferon plus ribavirin therapies or could not undergo these treatments either with or without direct-acting antivirals against HCV due to certain medical conditions \\[[@B19], [@B20]\\]. ",
"Chronic hepatitis C patients with advanced liver fibrosis are at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). ",
"Older age as well as advanced liver fibrosis is one of the risk factors associated with HCC \\[[@B20], [@B21]\\]. ",
"We have recently had an increased number of opportunities to perform phlebotomy in patients with HCV or NAFLD. ",
"In the present study, we retrospectively analyzed patients undergoing phlebotomy and their adverse events. ",
"Occurrence and recurrence of HCC, and the appearance of ascites in some of the HCV-infected patients as well as the reduction of serum ferritin and ALT levels were observed. ",
"We also found that severe adverse events, requiring a cessation of phlebotomy, occurred independently of α-fetoprotein (AFP, \\>10 ng/ml) in patients infected with HCV according to multivariate logistic regression analysis. ",
"These findings might serve as a basis for phlebotomy especially in older patients infected with HCV.",
"\n\nPatients and Methods {#sec1_2}\n====================\n\nPatients {#sec2_1}\n--------\n\nWe retrospectively analyzed 26 patients with chronic liver disease who had undergone phlebotomy for at least 6 months at the Chiba University Hospital. ",
"Patients were eligible if they met the following inclusion criteria: (1) age \\>20 years, (2) no pregnancy, (3) no severe heart disease, (4) no abnormal hemoglobinemia, (5) no chronic renal disease, (6) no hepatic failure, and (7) no current intravenous drug abuse. ",
"This analysis was approved by the ethics committee of the Chiba University School of Medicine, and informed consent was obtained from all patients. ",
"In this study, phlebotomy of 200--400 ml was performed every 1 or 2 months at the outpatient clinic of the Chiba University Hospital. ",
"Clinical and laboratory assessments were also performed each time. ",
"Abdominal ultrasound was performed at least once every 6 months. ",
"Adverse events were noted by verbal inquiry, physical examinations and laboratory tests. ",
"HCV RNA was measured by the COBAS TaqMan HCV test (Roche Diagnostics, Tokyo, Japan), with levels ranging from 1.2 to 7.8 log IU/ml \\[[@B20]\\]. ",
"Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), ALT, ferritin, hemoglobin and other laboratory tests were carried out by standard methods.",
"\n\nDefinition of Severe Adverse Events {#sec2_2}\n-----------------------------------\n\nSevere adverse events were defined as events requiring a cessation of phlebotomy.",
"\n\nDiagnosis of Hepatic Cirrhosis {#sec2_3}\n------------------------------\n\nPatients were diagnosed as having cirrhosis mainly by ultrasound examination. ",
"Six patients infected with HCV and 2 patients without HCV were diagnosed with cirrhosis using mainly liver biopsy.",
"\n\nDiagnosis of HCC {#sec2_4}\n----------------\n\nPatients were subsequently followed up using an HCC surveillance program based on biochemical and US evaluation every 3--6 months as previously described \\[[@B20]\\]. ",
"An intrahepatic nodule was considered to be HCC on computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging when both the hypervascular nodule in the arterial phase and the hypovascular nodule in the late phase were shown \\[[@B20]\\].",
"\n\nStatistical Analysis {#sec2_5}\n--------------------\n\nData were expressed as mean ± SD. ",
"Differences were evaluated by Student\\'s t test or χ^2^. p \\< 0.05 was considered statistically significant. ",
"Variables with p \\< 0.05 at univariate analysis were retained for multiple logistic regression analysis. ",
"Statistical analysis was performed using the Excelstatistics program for Windows, version 7 (SSRI, Tokyo, Japan).",
"\n\nResults {#sec1_3}\n=======\n\nPatient Characteristics {#sec2_6}\n-----------------------\n\nThe characteristics of all 26 patients are shown in table [1](#T1){ref-type=\"table\"}. ",
"Mean age was 63.9 years. ",
"Of a total of 21 patients infected with HCV, 20 were monoinfected with HCV and 1 was coinfected with hepatitis B virus and HCV. ",
"In the HCV group, 15 and 6 were infected with HCV genotype 1 and genotype 2, respectively; 15 of the 21 HCV-positive patients had received interferon treatment, and 5 of the 21 patients had received treatment for HCC. ",
"Of all 26 patients, 13 patients were diagnosed with cirrhosis. ",
"Of the 5 patients with NAFLD, 2 each showed fibrosis staging of F2 and F4, respectively. ",
"These 4 patients and 1 other patient had nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and simple steatosis, respectively. ",
"The body mass index and the albumin level of patients with NAFLD tended to be higher than those of patients infected with HCV.",
"\n\nEffects of Phlebotomy on Laboratory Data of All 26 Patients {#sec2_7}\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n\nIn all 26 patients, AST, ALT, hemoglobin and ferritin were significantly reduced by phlebotomy (fig. [",
"1](#F1){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"Among the other parameters, γ-glutamyltransferase and AFP levels tended to be reduced by phlebotomy (from 88.8 ± 95.7 to 56.1 ± 56.8, p = 0.140, and from 8.6 ± 6.9 to 6.5 ± 4.0, p = 0.185, respectively). ",
"These results indicated that phlebotomy was effective in providing an improvement in AST and ALT levels as has been shown in previous reports \\[[@B1], [@B2], [@B3], [@B4]\\].",
"\n\nEffects of Phlebotomy on Laboratory Data in a Total of 21 Patients Infected with HCV {#sec2_8}\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNext, we compared the data of patients infected with HCV before and after phlebotomy. ",
"In the 21 HCV-infected individuals, ALT, hemoglobin and ferritin levels were significantly reduced by phlebotomy, although the HCV RNA level did not change (table [2](#T2){ref-type=\"table\"}). ",
"Among the other parameters, AST and AFP levels tended to be reduced by phlebotomy. ",
"Although the study population was very small (data not shown), among the 5 patients with NAFLD, only AST and ferritin levels, respectively, tended to be reduced before and after phlebotomy (from 56.2 ± 24.8 to 36.2 ± 15.2, p = 0.162, and from 248 ± 219 to 64.3 ± 52.4, p = 0.105).",
"\n\nSevere Adverse Events during Phlebotomy {#sec2_9}\n---------------------------------------\n\nWe observed severe adverse events in 9 patients. ",
"Of interest, these 9 patients were all infected with HCV (table [3](#T3){ref-type=\"table\"}). ",
"In 6 of these 9 patients, the background liver was cirrhotic. ",
"One and 3 had occurrence and recurrence of HCC, respectively, and phlebotomy in the other 5 patients was stopped due to angina pectoris in 1, ascites in 1, pleural tuberculosis in 1, nausea in 1, and dizziness in 1. ",
"Univariate analysis showed that lower albumin contributed to the occurrence of severe adverse events (table [4](#T4){ref-type=\"table\"}). ",
"Factors associated with severe adverse events by univariate analysis were again analyzed by multivariate logistic regression analysis. ",
"Severe adverse events occurred independently of AFP (\\>10 ng/ml) in patients infected with HCV (table [5](#T5){ref-type=\"table\"}).",
"\n\nDiscussion {#sec1_4}\n==========\n\nThe observation that phlebotomy improves ALT levels has now been confirmed in many studies \\[[@B1], [@B2], [@B3], [@B4]\\], even though iron reduction does not improve the rate of sustained response among previous nonresponders \\[[@B22]\\]. ",
"The present study revealed the possibility that even during phlebotomy, severe adverse events including the occurrence or recurrence of HCC could occur in patients infected with HCV even if their ALT and ferritin levels were improved. ",
"Among the patients with severe adverse events in this study, all except 1 were more than 50 years of age (table [3](#T3){ref-type=\"table\"}).",
"\n\nKato et al. ",
"\\[[@B23]\\] also performed phlebotomy with low-iron diet therapy in 35 HCV-infected patients, with a mean age of 61 years, and they observed HCC occurrence in 4/35 (11.4%) during a 6-year period. ",
"They found that the average serum ferritin level independently affected the hepatocarcinogenesis rate and the relative risk of HCC in the patients treated with iron depletion therapy. ",
"Iron overload is one of the risk factors for the development of HCC in patients infected with chronic HCV infection \\[[@B24]\\]. ",
"Although the study population was small, the present study also showed that chronic phlebotomy treatment is not always useful for the prevention of HCC and that further studies are needed. ",
"We cannot exclude the possibility that most of the current study patients infected with HCV might have been patients 'difficult-to-treat' by antiviral therapies such as peginterferon plus ribavirin \\[[@B5]\\]. ",
"Of course, among these patients, elderly patients and/or patients with advanced liver fibrosis might be susceptible to HCC \\[[@B20], [@B21], [@B25]\\].",
"\n\nIn Japan, patients infected with HCV are getting increasingly older, and they are older than those in other countries \\[[@B19], [@B26]\\]. ",
"Matsuo et al. ",
"\\[[@B26]\\] reported that HCC developed more frequently in blood donors in whom chronic hepatitis had been diagnosed at age \\>60 years than ≤59 years. ",
"In the era of direct-acting antivirals against HCV \\[[@B27], [@B28]\\], our current study strongly suggests that HCV-infected patients \\>50 years might be treated with antivirals as soon as possible. ",
"If certain treatments such as phlebotomy were temporarily selected, attention should be paid to the potential occurrence or recurrence of HCC or the occurrence of other complications during these treatments. ",
"In the present study, in 4 (30.7%) patients of 13 cirrhotic patients, phlebotomy was stopped due to the occurrence or recurrence of HCC.",
"\n\nIn conclusion, the occurrence or recurrence of HCC or hepatic failure with ascites was observed in certain patients infected with HCV in addition to the reduction of serum ferritin and ALT levels during phlebotomy. ",
"Severe adverse events, which required phlebotomy to be stopped, occurred independently of AFP (\\>10 ng/ml) in patients infected with HCV according to multivariate logistic regression analysis. ",
"The findings of this study will provide a guideline as a basis for phlebotomy treatments, especially for older patients with chronic hepatitis C. If possible, older patients infected with HCV should also be treated with antiviral agents.",
"\n\nDisclosure Statement {#sec1_5}\n====================\n\nTatsuo Kanda reports receiving lecture fees from Chugai Pharmaceutical, MSD, Tanabe-Mitsubishi, Ajinomoto, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi-Sankyo, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and GlaxoSmithKline. ",
"Osamu Yokosuka reports receiving grant support from Chugai Pharmaceutical, Bayer, MSD, Daiichi-Sankyo, Tanabe-Mitsubishi, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.",
"\n\nThis work was supported by Research Grants for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan (T.K., S.N., S.W. and O.Y.).",
"\n\n{#F1}\n\n###### \n\nBaseline characteristics of total patients in this study\n\n Factors Total patients (n = 26) HCV group (n = 21) NAFLD group (n = 5) p values[^1^](#T1F1){ref-type=\"table-fn\"} (HCV vs. NAFLD)\n ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------\n Age, years 63.9±9.3 64.6±8.7 61±12.4 n.s.",
"\n Males/females, n 14/12 13/8 1/4 n.s.",
"\n Body mass index 24.4±3.9 23.6±3.4 26.9±4.5 0.078\n Cirrhosis (+/--) 13/13 11/10 2/3 n.s.",
"\n Past history of HCC (+/--) 5/21 5/16 0/5 n.s.",
"\n AST, IU/l 62.7±31.0 64.2±32.6 56.2±24.8 n.s.",
"\n ALT, IU/l 77.3±51.8 75.3±47.5 86±73.4 n.s.",
"\n γ-GTP, IU/l 88.8±95.7 94.4±104 66.4±47.0 n.s.",
"\n Total bilirubin, mg/dl 1.0±0.53 0.98±0.47 01.2±0.78 n.s.",
"\n Albumin, g/dl 4.2±0.39 4.2±0.41 4.5±0.13 0.123\n Hemoglobin, g/dl 13.8±1.5 13.7±1.5 14.4±1.2 n.s.",
"\n Platelets, ×10^4^/μl 13.4±4.6 12.2±4.0 18.3±3.8 0.00500\n AFP, ng/ml 8.6±6.9 9.7±7.3 4.3±1.6 0.118\n Ferritin, ng/ml 213±176 205±169 248±219 n.s.",
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"\n\n###### \n\nChanges in laboratory data before and after phlebotomy in a total of 21 HCV-positive patients\n\n Factors Before phlebotomy (n = 21) After phlebotomy (n = 21) p values[^1^](#T2F1){ref-type=\"table-fn\"}\n ------------------------ ---------------------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------------------\n HCV RNA, log IU/ml 5.89±1.58 5.87±1.65 n.s.",
"\n AST, IU/l 64.2±32.6 49.5±25.1 0.109\n ALT, IU/l 75.3±47.5 48.3±28.2 0.0307\n γ-GTP, IU/l 94.4±104 60.9±62.3 n.s.",
"\n Total bilirubin, mg/dl 0.98±0.47 0.83±0.47 n.s.",
"\n Albumin, g/dl 4.2±0.41 4.0±0.48 n.s.",
"\n Hemoglobin, g/dl 13.7±1.5 12.7±1.4 0.0398\n Platelets, ×10^4^/μl 12.2±4.0 13.0±4.4 n.s.",
"\n AFP, ng/ml 9.7±7.3 7.1±4.2 0.164\n Ferritin, ng/ml 205±169 38.9±32.5 0.000236\n\nData are expressed as mean ± SD. ",
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"\n\n###### \n\nNine patients infected with HCV no longer received phlebotomy due to severe adverse events\n\n Age, years Gender Background Phlebotomy (total volume/duration), l/months Severe adverse events Hemoglobin (before phlebotomy), g/dl Hemoglobin (after phlebotomy), g/dl\n ------------ -------- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- ----------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------\n 69 Male Cirrhosis \\<2.4/12 Angina pectoris 16 14\n 79 Male Cirrhosis \\<2.4/6 HCC 13.8 12.4\n 62 Male Cirrhosis, post-HCC therapy \\<2.4/10 HCC recurrence 10.6 12.5\n 54 Male Cirrhosis, post-HCC therapy ≥2.4/26 HCC recurrence 12.3 12.5\n 65 Male Cirrhosis, post-HCC therapy \\<2.4/6 HCC recurrence 13.7 12.1\n 67 Female Chronic hepatitis \\<2.4/6 Nausea 14.2 12\n 73 Male Chronic hepatitis, type B + C ≥2.4/93 Pleural tuberculosis 13.3 13\n 48 Female Cirrhosis \\<2.4/16 Ascites 13 11.1\n 79 Male Chronic hepatitis ≥2.4/24 Dizziness 15.5 11.1\n\n###### \n\nComparison of baseline characteristics of HCV-infected patients with and without severe adverse events by univariate analysis\n\n Factors With severe adverse events (n = 9) Without severe adverse events (n = 12) p values[^1^](#T4F1){ref-type=\"table-fn\"}\n ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------\n Age, years 66.2±10.4 63.4±7.3 n.s.",
"\n males/females 7/2 6/6 n.s.",
"\n Body mass index 24.4±4.7 23.1±2.6 n.s.",
"\n Cirrhosis (+/--) 6/3 5/7 n.s.",
"\n Past history of HCC (+/--) 3/6 2/10 n.s.",
"\n AST, IU/l 74.2±38.8 56.8±26.3 n.s.",
"\n ALT, IU/l 83.6±57.0 69.0±40.4 n.s.",
"\n γ-GTP, IU/l 140±137 56.5±46.2 0.0622\n Total bilirubin, mg/dl 1.0±0.59 0.94±0.39 n.s.",
"\n Albumin, g/dl 3.9±0.48 4.4±0.23 0.00499\n Hemoglobin, g/dl 13.6±1.6 13.8+1.5 n.s.",
"\n Platelets, ×10^4^/µl 11.5±3.5 12.7±4.3 n.s.",
"\n AFP, ng/ml 12.9±8.8 07.2±5.0 0.0749\n Ferritin, ng/ml 276±208 152±116 0.0973\n Total volume of phlebotomy (\\<2.4/≥2.4 liters) 6/3 6/6 n.s.",
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"\n\nFriday, July 04, 2014\n\nThis former B list mostly television actress spent TEN minutes texting back and forth to her A list mostly movie actor husband yesterday to make sure he approved of what she was about to order at a restaurant. ",
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"\n\nSeems the type A control thing has bled into all aspects of his life and relationships..(ps..it's why he and Sandra B were together for a bit)\n\nControlling men have some good points, I've found they do everything for u. Lol. ",
"I'm the baby of our family, and only girl, with many older brothers and a controlling father. ",
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"We are confident this program will engage and inspire talented students to become the future leaders of New Jersey.”",
"\n\nThe Fox Forum will enable Montclair State University both to facilitate the professional development of students committed to public service, and to improve the quality and skills of those who will go on to serve in state, county and municipal governments.",
"\n\n“In honoring Mr. Fox’s legacy, we hope to build a substantial pool of talent chosen selectively from all of New Jersey’s colleges and universities,” says Montclair State University Professor of Political Science and Law Brigid Callahan Harrison. “",
"The primary criteria for selection as a Fox Fellow is a demonstrated commitment to public service, and we hope to attract a diverse array of applicants who have demonstrated that commitment in a wide variety of ways.”",
"\n\nEach participating student will be assigned a mentor, who will work with the student throughout the year, to nurture her or his academic growth and career development. ",
"Other components of the program will include an annual forum, hosted by Montclair State University, consisting of a panel presentation, targeted workshops, and a networking reception. ",
"Fox Fellows also will gather as a group several times a year and participate in a webinar, called “Preparing for a Career in Government Service.”",
"\n\nThe program is the result of a partnership with the James P. Fox Memorial Fund, which also supports a program at The College of New Jersey, The Jamie Fox Scholars Program, as part of a statewide initiative.",
"\n\n“For Jamie, public service was a life’s calling that fueled a thriving 40-year career and spawned many important policy achievements,” says Eric Shuffler, a fund trustee. “",
"Jamie was especially passionate about mentoring young people and encouraging careers in government service. ",
"These two programs, funded by the Fox Memorial Fund, will provide students with real-life experience and advice that will provide a foundation for more young people to seek, obtain and succeed in public sector jobs.”",
"\n\nFor more information on the Fox Forum on Public Service, visit: https://www.montclair.edu/chss/political-science-law/fox-fellows/"
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"Introduction {#Sec1}\n============\n\nMetformin has been used for 60 years by more than 150 million people worldwide. ",
"It is the first-line monotherapy prescribed at diagnosis in people with type 2 diabetes \\[[@CR1]\\], and also slows progression to type 2 diabetes in people with elevated but non-diabetic glucose levels who are unable or unwilling to adhere to lifestyle modification \\[[@CR2]--[@CR4]\\].",
"\n\nDespite the popularity of metformin in diabetes treatment, its mechanisms of action are poorly understood; suppression of endogenous glucose production via activation of AMP-kinase (AMPK) has been hypothesised \\[[@CR5]\\]. ",
"However, a preserved glucose-lowering effect has been reported in AMPK knockout mice \\[[@CR6]\\]. ",
"Alternative, non-AMPK-dependent, mechanisms include inhibition of mitochondrial glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity \\[[@CR7]\\] and adenylate cyclase-mediated inhibition of the gluconeogenic pathway in favour of glycolysis \\[[@CR8]\\]. ",
"In a recent study performed on *Caenorhabditis elegans* and extended to human cell lines, Wu et al identified two new targets of metformin action: the nuclear pore complex and the gene encoding acyl-CoA dehydrogenase 10 \\[[@CR9]\\].",
"\n\nDiabetes treatment guidelines adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, and do not take into account interindividual variation in response. ",
"Yet there is considerable between-patient variation in treatment effects, with some responding poorly or not at all and others being highly sensitive to the drug or experiencing extreme adverse drug reactions \\[[@CR10]\\]. ",
"Up to 30% of individuals treated with metformin develop nausea, bloating, abdominal pain and/or diarrhoea, and 5--10% are unable to continue with metformin treatment \\[[@CR11]\\]. ",
"Heritability studies indicate that genetic variation underlies around 34% of the variability in metformin response \\[[@CR12]\\].",
"\n\nPrevious candidate gene-based pharmacogenetic studies of metformin have largely focused on loci encoding transporter proteins; little emphasis has been placed on genes in the pharmacodynamics (PD) domain, and much of the published data are inconclusive and sometimes controverted \\[[@CR10]\\]. ",
"Hypothesis-free genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on metformin have identified a genome-wide significant variant, rs11212617, near the *ATM* gene for metformin-induced glycaemic response \\[[@CR13]\\]. ",
"Given that this SNP lies in a large block of genes that are in linkage disequilibrium, the authors performed cellular work and suggested *ATM* to be the causal gene.",
"\n\nAMPK, the energy sensor, is the downstream target of metformin and is believed to be involved in the PD of metformin. ",
"Selective inhibition of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein by KU-55933 resulted in a marked reduction in metformin-induced AMPK activation, suggesting involvement of ATM in AMPK activation. ",
"However, cellular studies showed marked inhibition of organic cation transporter (OCT)1, an important mediator of metformin uptake by the liver, by KU-55933, suggesting that the observed attenuated AMPK phosphorylation could also be due to inhibition of OCT1 \\[[@CR14]\\]. ",
"A recent GWAS study from the MetGen consortium reported an association between an intronic *SLC2A2* variant, rs8192675, and the glycaemic response to metformin \\[[@CR15]\\].",
"\n\nOwing to the vast literature on gene--metformin interactions, obtaining an unbiased overview of the evidence is extremely difficult. ",
"While meta-analysis delivers trustworthy findings if well conducted, heterogeneity in study designs, analytic strategies, population characteristics and data selection biases present challenges to such analyses \\[[@CR16]\\]*.* ",
"Thus, to facilitate this process, automated approaches to integrate evidence from multiple sources, cataloguing the levels of evidence, validating in a real-world dataset, and using this to prioritise genes for follow-up are increasingly favoured \\[[@CR17], [@CR18]\\].",
"\n\nHere, we established a semi-automated text-mining pipeline to prioritise biological candidate genes that show evidence of interaction with metformin based on strength of evidence from published studies. ",
"We then evaluated the prioritised gene sets by examining their enrichment using a well-powered external dataset.",
"\n\nMethods {#Sec2}\n=======\n\nData collection {#Sec3}\n---------------\n\n### Selection and download of articles {#FPar1}\n\nArticles that make reference to studies of genes and metformin in humans, identified through PubMed, were identified using the Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction (FABLE) tool \\[[@CR19]\\]. ",
"Accordingly, 13,914 articles were identified, of which 5963 reported independent information (Fig. [",
"1](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"PubMed article identifiers (PMIDs) were collected for automated download of full text articles using Batch Entrez and EndNote. ",
"These tools permit access to articles from journals that are either open access or to which our institution (Lund University) subscribes. ",
"In most cases, PDFs are the default source of information from published articles. ",
"Thus, batch conversion of PDF to text format was done using Xpdf 3.04 ([ftp.foolabs.com](ftp://ftp.foolabs.com), accessed from 1 February to 30 June 2014).Fig. ",
"1Identification, screening and selection of published articles\n\n### Gene and drug dictionary construction {#FPar2}\n\nGene and drug names are often described using more than one naming convention, abbreviation and/or synonym in the biomedical literature. ",
"Therefore, we compiled a comprehensive dictionary of gene names and abbreviations by extracting gene synonyms from NCBI Gene ([www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene)), UCSC Genome Brower ([www.genome.ucsc.edu](http://www.genome.ucsc.edu)/), SymAtlas ([www.biogps.org](http://www.biogps.org)/), Google ([www.google.com](http://www.google.com)/), GeneCards ([www.genecards.org](http://www.genecards.org)/) and iLINCS ([www.ilincs.org/ilincs/](http://www.ilincs.org/ilincs)), which was subsequently used to standardise data for a given gene. ",
"A drug dictionary capturing generic name, brand names, synonyms and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) names of metformin was also developed from drug cards of the Drug Bank ([www.drugbank.ca](http://www.drugbank.ca)/) (see electronic supplementary material \\[ESM\\] Table [1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"All these databases were accessed from 1 February to 30 June 2014.",
"\n\n### Sentence extraction {#FPar3}\n\nSentence extraction involves text segmentation, tokenisation and named entity recognition. ",
"Sentence segmentation and tokenisation were achieved using the Lingua::EN::Sentence module in the Perl software package, which is freely available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) ([http://search.cpan.org/\\~shlomoy/Lingua-EN-Sentence-0.14/lib/Lingua/EN/Sentence.pm](http://search.cpan.org/%7Eshlomoy/Lingua-EN-Sentence-0.14/lib/Lingua/EN/Sentence.pm), accessed from 1 February to 30 June 2014). ",
"Gene and drug names were tagged using a Perl-based mark-up algorithm that uses a set of hashes and regular expressions. ",
"Sentences that contain a drug and a gene (i.e. a gene--drug dyad) were extracted from the corpus of each article (e.g., from titles, abstracts or main body of texts).",
"\n\n### Annotation of extracted sentences {#FPar4}\n\nAnalyses are based on the assumption that gene--drug dyads coalesce within a single sentence. ",
"Thus, each sentence was manually annotated to describe relationships between genes and metformin according to the annotation guideline given from the gene--drug interaction corpus and comparative evaluation by the Discovery through Integration and Extraction of Genomic and Clinical Knowledge (<http://diego.asu.edu>/, accessed 15 August 2014) \\[[@CR20]\\]. '",
"Interaction' words are those that describe the presence of an interaction. ",
"For the purpose of these annotations, interactions refer to the *action*, *effect* or *influence* of the gene on a clinical outcome, pharmacokinetics (PK) or PD of the drug. ",
"Furthermore, the *action*, *effect* or *influence* of the drug on gene expression is also included as a component of *interaction*.",
"\n\n### Annotation categories {#FPar5}\n\nMain annotations used to confirm the presence or absence of interaction between genes and metformin can be direct or indirect, and explicit or inferred. ",
"For the current analysis, three categories of data about interactions were documented: direct explicit, indirect explicit and indirect inferred. ",
"Only direct and explicit interactions were taken forward for further analysis. ",
"Different annotation subcategories were also used, along with interactions if they existed in sentences. ",
"These include 'increased interaction', 'decreased interaction' or 'negation'. *",
"Negation* indicates an absence of interaction and is usually represented by negative words such as '*not*' or '*never*' (ESM Table [2](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}).",
"\n\nDeveloping the evidence-scoring algorithm {#Sec4}\n-----------------------------------------\n\nAn iterative ranking algorithm was developed based on the pharmacogenomic relatedness, frequency and consistency of evidence for co-occurring gene--drug pairs. ",
"Each gene was given a score based on the strength of evidence for interaction with metformin. ",
"The scoring algorithm is adapted from the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative pharmacogenomics appraisal \\[[@CR17]\\]. ",
"Accordingly, each gene was given a score consisting of seven categories, ranging from 1 (representing the strongest evidence; presence of consistent clinical data) to 7 (the weakest evidence; published evidence showing lack of effect of the gene on drug response). ",
"See the ESM [Methods](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} for further details.",
"\n\nOnce all the evidence for a given gene had been gathered, a single score was assigned based on the greatest strength of evidence. ",
"For evidence scores 1--3, the drug--phenotype association should be consistent across different studies. ",
"If the data were found to be inconsistent, the clinical relevance of the gene was considered unknown and a score of 4--6, as appropriate, was returned. ",
"A score of 7 was given if the clinical relevance was clearly refutable based on the available evidence. ",
"Table [1](#Tab1){ref-type=\"table\"} outlines criteria for each score with their assessment outcomes.",
"Table 1Evidence code assignment for gene--metformin interactionEvidence code definitionEvidence codeStudy categoryStudy objective/findingsAssessment outcome1Clinical outcomes studiesConsistent effect of genetic variant on drug of interest^a^Clinically relevant2PK or PD studyConsistent effect of genetic variant on drug of interest^a^Clinically relevant3Molecular/cellular functional studiesConsistent effect of genetic variant on drug of interest^a^Potential clinical relevance4Clinical outcomes studiesInconsistent effect on drug of interestClinical relevance unknown5PK or PD studyInconsistent effect on drug of interestClinical relevance unknown6Molecular/cellular functional studiesInconsistent effect on drug of interestClinical relevance unknown7Clinical outcomes studies, PK or PD studyDemonstrates no effect of the genetic variant on drug responseClinical relevance unsupported^a^For evidence scores 1, 2 and 3, the drug--phenotype association should be consistent across different studies. ",
"If not, a score of 3--6 is assigned, as appropriate\n\nGenome-wide association data {#Sec5}\n----------------------------\n\n### Cohort description {#FPar6}\n\nThe validation cohort was from the Genetics of Diabetes and Audit Research Tayside Study (GoDARTS) consisting of 2568 adults of European ancestry diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who had been on stable metformin treatment for at least 6 months with no history of insulin use before or during the study period \\[[@CR13]\\]. ",
"All participants had a baseline HbA~1c~ \\> 7% (53 mmol/mol) and \\< 14% (129.5 mmol/mol).",
"\n\n### Genotyping and quality control {#FPar7}\n\nGenotyping and quality control procedures for the GoDARTS cohort are described elsewhere \\[[@CR13], [@CR14], [@CR21]\\]. ",
"See ESM [Methods](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} for further details.",
"\n\n### Glycaemic response definition and model {#FPar8}\n\nA linear regression model of glycaemic response was fitted as the maximum HbA~1c~ reduction recorded within 1--18 months of the metformin index date adjusted for baseline HbA~1c~, creatinine clearance, adherence, dose, drug group and baseline gap (the number of days between baseline HbA~1c~ measure and metformin index date). ",
"The final glycaemic response model was: HbA~1c~ reduction = baseline HbA~1c~ + creatinine clearance + adherence + average daily dose + drug group + baseline gap + genotype.",
"\n\nEach SNP was tested for association with a continuous measure of glycaemic response (HbA~1c~ reduction) with SNPTEST v2.5 (<https://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/genetics_software/snptest/snptest.html>) \\[[@CR22]\\] using multiple linear regression assuming an additive model. ",
"Association test results were combined with fixed-effects inverse-variance-weighted meta-analysis using Genome-Wide Association Meta Analysis software v2.1.34 ([www.geenivaramu.ee/en/tools/gwama](http://www.geenivaramu.ee/en/tools/gwama)) \\[[@CR23]\\]. ",
"Software was accessed from 1 February to 30 June 2014.",
"\n\nGene-set enrichment analysis {#Sec6}\n----------------------------\n\nWe carried out enrichment analysis using Meta-Analysis Gene-set Enrichment of variaNT Associations (MAGENTA v2.4) ([https://software.broadinstitute.org/mpg/magenta/](https://software.broadinstitute.org/mpg/magenta), accessed from 1 February to 30 June 2014) \\[[@CR24]\\] to test whether literature-identified gene sets were enriched with glycaemic response to metformin in a well-powered GWAS from the GoDARTS consisting of 2568 individuals with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin. ",
"Five sets of genes identified from the literature were used for gene-set enrichment analysis (GSEA): (1) genes directly related to clinical outcomes of metformin; (2) genes associated with either the PK or PD of metformin but not directly related to the clinical outcome; (3) genes whose expression is affected by the presence of metformin and not included in either (1) or (2) above; (4) genes related to clinical outcome, PK or PD (1 + 2); and (5) genes related to a clinical outcome and/or PK/PD/expression (1 + 2 + 3). ",
"See ESM [Methods](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} for further details.",
"\n\nResults {#Sec7}\n=======\n\nData retrieval and extraction {#Sec8}\n-----------------------------\n\nFrom our screen of articles with a key word 'metformin' in FABLE, we identified 5963 unique articles published from 1968 to January 2014 (Fig. [",
"1](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"Among these, 3575 (60%) were accessed as full text articles (ESM Fig. [",
"1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}) and the remaining 2388 (40%) as abstracts (ESM Fig. [",
"2](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Although other parts may contain biologically relevant information, the best keyword per total word was obtained from abstracts \\[[@CR25]\\]. ",
"ESM Fig. [",
"3](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} shows the distribution of full text articles and abstracts by year of publication. ",
"A total of 2009 sentences were extracted with 3063 co-occurrences of metformin and genes. ",
"After removing non-interaction shared entities, and hypothetical, possible and indirect interactions, 1074 direct and explicit co-occurrences were annotated.",
"\n\nGenes related to clinical outcomes as a consequence of metformin treatment {#Sec9}\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFrom the search outlined above, seven genes were identified that appear to modify the effects of metformin on diabetes-related clinical outcomes. ",
"These genes were assigned evidence code 1 and thus found to be clinically relevant (ESM Table [3](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"These genes included encoding proteins that affect metformin transport (*SLC22A1*, *SLC22A2*, *SLC47A1*). ",
"While *SLC22A1* and *SLC22A2* encode OCT1 and OCT2, respectively, *SLC47A1* encodes multi drug and toxin extrusion (MATE)1.",
"\n\nOCT1 transports metformin in the gut and facilitates its hepatic uptake \\[[@CR26], [@CR27]\\]. ",
"OCT2 and MATE1, expressed in the kidney, are widely reported to be involved in the renal excretion of metformin \\[[@CR28], [@CR29]\\]. ",
"Multiple variants in these genes are reported to affect functionality and therapeutic response to metformin \\[[@CR10]\\]. *",
"STK11*, *PRKAA2*, *ATM* and *SHBG* genes also showed consistent evidence of interactions with metformin on clinical outcomes. *",
"ATM* encodes for serine/threonine protein kinase that belongs to the PI3/PI4-kinase family. ",
"This gene is primarily involved in DNA damage response but also involved in insulin signalling and beta cell dysfunction \\[[@CR30]\\].",
"\n\nThe liver kinase beta 1 (LKB1)--AMPK pathway controls hepatic glucose homeostasis and may play a role in the therapeutic effects of insulin-sensitising glucose-lowering agents \\[[@CR31]\\]. ",
"While *STK11* encodes LKB1, *PRKAA2* encodes AMPK alpha 2 subunit. ",
"LKB1 is the upstream kinase of AMPK, an element involved in cellular metabolism and energy homeostasis \\[[@CR32]\\]. ",
"Zhou et al reported that AMPK could be a key molecular effector of metformin. ",
"Activation of AMPK by metformin was shown to be associated with a subsequent reduction in the production of glucose in the liver \\[[@CR33]\\]. *",
"SHBG* encodes the sex hormone binding protein (SHBG), and variation at this locus has been related to polycystic ovary syndrome \\[[@CR34]\\]. ",
"According to Ding et al, the level of circulating SHBG is inversely related to insulin resistance and may be causally related to type 2 diabetes \\[[@CR35]\\].",
"\n\nGenes related to PK and/or PD of metformin {#Sec10}\n------------------------------------------\n\nThose genes that affected transport of the drug in the body or influenced metformin action but did not appear to consistently affect clinical outcomes were assigned a score of 2 (ESM Table [4](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Of these, *SLC47A2*, *SLC22A3* and *SLC29A4* encode transporter proteins MATE2, OCT3 and plasma membrane monoamine transporter (PMAT), respectively. ",
"These genes were found to be predictive of the PK parameters of metformin. ",
"MATE2 is a transporter protein expressed in the brush border of the kidney \\[[@CR36]\\]. ",
"Stocker et al reported an association of this protein with renal clearance and subsequent glucose-lowering effect of metformin \\[[@CR37]\\]. ",
"OCT3, expressed in the brush border of the intestine and the basolateral hepatocyte membrane, could have a role in the gut absorption and hepatic intake of metformin \\[[@CR38], [@CR39]\\]. ",
"Significant interindividual variation in hepatic *OCT3* mRNA levels and association of genetic variants in *OCT3* (mRNA) with reduced *OCT3* mRNA expression in the liver has previously been reported \\[[@CR40]\\]. ",
"PMAT is mainly expressed in the luminal side of the intestine and is involved in the intestinal absorption of metformin \\[[@CR40]\\]. ",
"The remaining 12 genes were associated with the PD of the drug.",
"\n\nGenes whose expression is influenced by metformin {#Sec11}\n-------------------------------------------------\n\nGenes that encode proteins in which their cellular and molecular function is consistently affected in the presence of metformin may have potential clinical relevance. ",
"Accordingly, they were assigned a score of 3. ",
"ESM Table [5](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} shows a total of 51 genes that have potential relevance in predicting clinical outcome and/or PK or PD properties of the drug.",
"\n\nGene-set enrichment analysis {#Sec12}\n----------------------------\n\nWe performed GSEA to test the enrichment of literature-identified metformin-related gene sets in a hypothesis-free GWAS from the GoDARTS. ",
"Overall, five sets of genes were constructed (Table [2](#Tab2){ref-type=\"table\"} and Fig. [",
"2](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"}) and tested for enrichment. ",
"We obtained the nominal enrichment *p* value for each gene (ESM Table [6](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}) and then gene set after running MAGENTA (Table [3](#Tab3){ref-type=\"table\"}).Table 2Literature-identified gene sets used for MAGENTA analysisGene setGenesA*SLC22A1*, *SLC47A1*, *STK11*, *ATM*, *PRKAA2*, *SLC22A2*, *SHBG*B*SLC47A2*, *SLC22A3*, *SLC29A4*, *DDIT3*, *FBP1*, *FOXO3*, *I2BR*, *INS*, *RPS6KB1*, *INSR*, *IRS2*, *KAT2A*, *KLF15*, *NR0B2*, *SIRT1*C*MTOR*, *SERPINE1*, *AKT1*, *SLC2A2*, *PIK3*, *CFTR*, *ERBB2*, *G6PC*, *GLP1*, *HIF1A*, *IL6*, *PCK1*, *PCK2*, *RPS6KB1*, *TXNIP*, *COX2*, *CYP3A4*, *IGFBP1*, *MAPK1*, *MAPK3*, *PPARGC1A*, *SREBF1*, *AGER*, *BGLAP*, *GAPDH*, *KLF15*, *MYC*, *SEPP1*, *ABCB1*, *ALPP*, *CASP3*, *CCNE1*, *CYP19A1*, *DDIT4*, *IL1RN*, *IRS2*, *SLC2A4*, *MAPK8*, *MEF2A*, *NFKB*, *NR1I2*, *PKLR*, *PPARA*, *PPP2R4*, *RAB4A*, *STAT3*, *TNFA*, *TP53*, *TSC1*, *TSC2*, *TIMP2*D (A + B)*SLC22A1*, *SLC47A1*, *STK11*, *ATM*, *PRKAA2*, *SLC22A2*, *SHBG*, *SLC47A2*, *SLC22A3*, *SLC29A4*, *DDIT3*, *FBP1*, *FOXO3*, *I2BR*, *INS*, *RPS6KB1*, *INSR*, *IRS2*, *KAT2A*, *KLF15*, *NR0B2*, *SIRT1*E (A + B + C)*SLC22A1*, *SLC47A1*, *STK11*, *ATM*, *PRKAA2*, *SLC22A2*, *SHBG*, *SLC47A2*, *SLC22A3*, *SLC29A4*, *DDIT3*, *FBP1*, *FOXO3*, *I2BR*, *INS*, *RPS6KB1*, *INSR*, *IRS2*, *KAT2A*, *KLF15*, *NR0B2*, *SIRT1*, *MTOR*, *SERPINE1*, *AKT1*, *SLC2A2*, *PIK3*, *CFTR*, *ERBB2*, *G6PC*, *GLP1*, *HIF1A*, *IL6*, *PCK1*, *PCK2*, *RPS6KB1*, *TXNIP*, *COX2*, *CYP3A4*, *IGFBP1*, *MAPK1*, *MAPK3*, *PPARGC1A*, *SREBF1*, *AGER*, *BGLAP*, *GAPDH*, *KLF15*, *MYC*, *SEPP1*, *ABCB1*, *ALPP*, *CASP3*, *CCNE1*, *CYP19A1*, *DDIT4*, *IL1RN*, *IRTK*, *SLC2A4*, *MAPK8*, *MEF2A*, *NFKB*, *NR1I2*, *PKLR*, *PPARA*, *PPP2R4*, *RAB4A*, *STAT3*, *TNFA*, *TP53*, *TSC1*, *TSC2*, *TIMP2*A, genes directly related to clinical outcomes of metformin; B, genes associated with either the PK or PD of metformin; C, genes whose expression is affected by metformin; D, genes related to the clinical outcome, PK or PD; E, genes related to clinical outcome and/or PK/PD/expression Fig. ",
"2Literature-identified gene sets used for MAGENTA analysis. ",
"A, genes directly related to clinical outcomes of metformin; B, genes associated with either the PK or PD of metformin; C, genes whose expression is affected by metformin; D, genes related to the clinical outcome, PK or PD; E, genes related to clinical outcome and/or PK/PD/expression Table 3Gene-set enrichment analysis of glycaemic response associations in literature-identified gene setsGene setNominal MAGENTA enrichment *p* value (75%)Number of OBS genes/loci above enrichment cut-offNumber of EXP genes/loci above enrichment cut-offExcess number of genes/loci above enrichment cut-off (OBS -- EXP)Enrichment fold (OBS/EXP)Total number of genesClinically relevant genes0.56122017PK_PD genes0.9751313Gene expression0.03171161.5543Clinically relevant + PK \\_PD genes0.9253520Clinically relevant + PK_PD + Gene expression0.133201641.2563EXP, expected; OBS, observed\n\nFour of the five gene sets showed no significant enrichment; the one that contained genes whose expression was affected by the presence of metformin showed significant enrichment (*p* \\< 0.05) (Table [3](#Tab3){ref-type=\"table\"}). ",
"In this gene set, six out of 17 genes above the 75th percentile enrichment cut-off (the expected number of genes above the cut-off being 11) were determined to have true associations with the glycaemic response to metformin. *",
"SLC2A4* (*p* = 3.24 × 10^−04^), *G6PC* (*p* = 4.77 × 10^−04^) and *MAPK1* (*p* = 1.51 × 10^−03^) were among the top-ranking genes in this gene set. ",
"These genes encode GLUT4, glucose 6-phosphatase (G6PC) and mitogen-activated protein kinase 1 enzymes, respectively.",
"\n\nDiscussion {#Sec13}\n==========\n\nPatients vary greatly in their glycaemic response, optimal dosage and adverse drug reactions following metformin therapy \\[[@CR41]\\]. ",
"Genetics accounts for about 34% of this variability \\[[@CR12]\\]. ",
"Hence, there is a case for more personalised therapy in diseases such as type 2 diabetes. ",
"Understanding how genetic variation impacts the effects of glucose-lowering drugs or helps to refine the characterisation of type 2 diabetes might improve treatment effectiveness and decrease adverse drug reactions, morbidity, mortality and cost of treatment.",
"\n\nAlthough there are publications in relation to the PK, PD and clinical outcomes of metformin, there is no database that concisely summarises the mechanisms describing gene--drug interactions. ",
"In most cases, specific evidence of interactions is buried deep within the literature, making it extremely difficult to comprehend the overall weight of evidence for given interactions. ",
"This problem is not specific to gene--metformin interactions, but is one that is common to the gene--drug and gene--environment interaction literature per se. ",
"In this paper, however, we focus on interactions between metformin and genes that impact clinical outcomes, PK and/or PD of the drug using a comprehensive text-mining strategy.",
"\n\nOur analyses identified seven genes ranked as 'top priority' to predict metformin-related clinical outcomes. ",
"These genes constituted three solute carrier family genes (*SLC22A1*, *SLC22A2* and *SLC47A1*) that are related to the PK of metformin, and four PD-related genes (*ATM*, *STK11*, *PRKAA2* and *SHBG*). ",
"Fifteen genes were found to affect the PK/PD of metformin without being consistently related to clinical outcomes. ",
"A third gene set in which expression or activation is affected by the presence of metformin has also been identified from the text-mining. ",
"A GSEA using GWAS data from GoDARTS showed significant enrichment of the third category for glycaemic response.",
"\n\nGenes that showed consistent changes in cellular and molecular functions in the presence of metformin may have potential clinical relevance in the search for biomarkers that predict the therapeutic outcome of metformin. ",
"This includes *SLC2A4* and *G6PC*. *",
"SLC2A4* encodes GLUT4, which plays a crucial role in regulating blood glucose homeostasis by facilitating insulin-stimulated glucose transport into skeletal muscles \\[[@CR42]\\]. ",
"Metformin is shown to modulate translocation of GLUT4 in skeletal muscle and adipocytes \\[[@CR43]\\]. *",
"G6PC* gene encodes G6PC, a rate-limiting enzyme in hepatic glucose production. ",
"It is involved in glucose production via the gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis pathways. ",
"Cellular studies have shown metformin to suppress glucose phosphatase enzyme expression independent of AMPK \\[[@CR44]\\]. ",
"While the top genes according to the GSEA were *SLC2A4* and *G6PC*, there is a possibility that the true signal could be from neighbouring genes. ",
"ESM Fig. [",
"4](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} shows regional association plots around *SLC2A4* and *G6PC*.",
"\n\nThe stringent significance threshold for a GWAS could overlook moderate-association signals that may have detrimental collective effects in certain pathways. ",
"Therefore, integrating GSEA guided by carefully curated evidence from the literature, as we did here, is likely to identify signals that are overlooked in a GWAS. ",
"In this study, we tested enrichment of text-mining-based prioritised gene sets on a GWAS of metformin response. ",
"Gene sets that were given high priority (those related to clinical outcome, PK or PD) showed no significant enrichment for multiple modest associations. ",
"This is probably due to the fact that our scoring system is subject to the publication bias that is well known to affect candidate gene association studies. ",
"For example, there are many small studies reporting the association between variants in metformin transporter genes and glycaemic response, resulting in a higher priority of PK genes in our gene set ranking. ",
"However, a meta-analysis of most published studies, in up to 8000 metformin-treated individuals with type 2 diabetes from the MetGen consortium, showed the putative pharmacogenetics variants in five transporter genes had no significant impact on the glycaemic response to metformin \\[[@CR45]\\], which is in line with our GSEA. ",
"The ranking system prioritises published evidence dominated by PK studies. ",
"Yet PK variants do not seem to alter metformin response \\[[@CR45]\\]. ",
"Therefore, this is largely due to candidate gene-based approaches. ",
"The molecular and cellular-based approaches looked at mostly PD studies and hence cast the net wider, so being less focused on the transporters.",
"\n\nThe enrichment of association signals within the low-priority gene set highlights the need to follow up association signals for loci with multiple modest effects for glycaemic response that have been previously overlooked, such as *SLC2A4* and *G6PC*, which rank high in the GWAS, with *p* values of 3.24 × 10^−04^ and 4.77 × 10^−04^, respectively.",
"\n\nAlthough the pipeline described here has generated novel evidence of gene--metformin interactions, it by no means renders a complete overview of all relevant literature. ",
"For example, only 60% of the index articles were accessible as full text, and conversion of the native PDF file into text format might have caused relevant data to be lost, as some articles used formats that are incompatible with the file templates used in our pipeline. ",
"Furthermore, data contained in tables and figures in the index papers were extracted in a semi-structured format, making data retrieved from tables and figures challenging to analyse and interpret. ",
"Thus, for papers in which important results were included in tables and figures, but not articulated in the title, abstract or main text of the article, evidence of interactions may have been overlooked.",
"\n\nSome genes are reported in papers in a non-standard form that may not be captured by the dictionary-based named entity recognition used in this study, and in some articles, non-standard abbreviations for metformin, instead of its original generic or brand name (e.g. the term 'MET'), are occasionally used. ",
"Such abbreviations are not found in any standard drug abbreviation protocol. ",
"Sentences with such abbreviations are likely to be incompletely characterised using the text retrieval strategy adopted here. ",
"Other barriers to data assimilation include the extent to which anaphora ('use of grammatical substitute \\[as pronoun or a pro-verb\\] to refer to the denotation of a preceding word or group of words' \\[[@CR46]\\]) and epiphora ('the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences' \\[[@CR46]\\]) were resolved, which may also have resulted in loss of information; this might have occurred, for example, when a gene and a drug were found in separate sentences (i.e. not described in the same sentence).",
"\n\nLarger studies with regular iterations that use extensive literature coverage, SNP-level annotation and more intensively automated machine learning approaches are likely to extend the observations reported here. ",
"GSEA using a larger GWAS dataset for metformin response is likely to increase the power and produce convincing results. ",
"Replication using other GWAS datasets including SNP--SNP interaction analyses is also likely to extend the number of validated interactions, as some of those prioritised using our algorithm may have ethnically specific effects that are undetectable in the ethnically homogeneous GoDARTS cohort.",
"\n\nConclusions {#Sec14}\n===========\n\nWe have developed a semi-automated text-mining and evidence-scoring algorithm that could help to organise and extract useful information from the literature on gene--drug and gene--environment interactions. ",
"According to our analysis, genes that encode transporter proteins such as OCTs and MATEs yield the strongest evidence of modifying the therapeutic outcomes of metformin. ",
"In addition, genes in the LKB1--AMPK pathway are also found to be related to the therapeutic outcomes of the glucose-lowering drug. ",
"However, we did not detect enrichment for the highly prioritised gene sets using GWAS data from the GoDARTS cohort; instead it was the gene set that were ranked with lower evidence scores that showed statistically significant enrichment in the GoDARTS.",
"\n\nGiven that the genomic architecture of drug response is complex and the mechanism of metformin action is still not clearly known, candidate gene studies investigating drug response to metformin have had limited success. ",
"In an alternative approach, here we have identified novel genes potentially associated with metformin action. ",
"Using a text-mining approach of the published literature, we have identified a gene set derived from cellular and functional studies associated with metformin response. ",
"The association of genetic variation in these genes, including *SLC2A4* and *G6PC*, needs further replication and follow-up.",
"\n\nElectronic supplementary material\n=================================\n\n {#Sec15}\n\nESM(PDF 552 kb)\n\nAMPK\n\n: AMP-kinase\n\nATM\n\n: Ataxia telangiectasia mutated\n\nFABLE\n\n: Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction\n\nG6PC\n\n: Glucose 6-phosphatase\n\nGoDARTS\n\n: Genetics of Diabetes and Audit Research Tayside Study\n\nGSEA\n\n: Gene-set enrichment analysis\n\nGWAS\n\n: Genome-wide association study\n\nLKB\n\n: Liver kinase beta\n\nMAGENTA\n\n: Meta-Analysis Gene-set Enrichment of variaNT Associations\n\nMATE\n\n: Multi drug and toxin extrusion\n\nOCT\n\n: Organic cation transporter\n\nPD\n\n: Pharmacodynamics\n\nPK\n\n: Pharmacokinetics\n\nPMAT\n\n: Plasma membrane monoamine transporter\n\nSHBG\n\n: Sex-hormone binding protein\n\nSTK\n\n: Serine/threonine kinase\n\nFunding {#FPar10}\n=======\n\nThis work was supported in part by the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under grant agreement no. ",
"115317 (DIRECT), resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies in kind contribution.",
"\n\nAYD would like to acknowledge the Swedish Institute Study Scholarship (SISS), the Diabetes Research on Patient Stratification (DIRECT) and Y. G. Meskel for his support in sentence extraction. ",
"AA was funded under grant agreement no. ",
"115317 (DIRECT).",
"\n\nData availability {#FPar9}\n=================\n\nThe datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.",
"\n\nDuality of interest {#FPar11}\n===================\n\nThe authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.",
"\n\nContribution statement {#FPar12}\n======================\n\nPWF and ERP conceived the study. ",
"AYD, AA and PWF designed the analyses. ",
"AYD, AA and KZ analysed the data. ",
"All the authors interpreted the data, and AYD, ERP and PWF wrote the manuscript. ",
"All the authors revised the manuscript and approved the final version submitted for publication. ",
"AYD and PWF are the guarantors of this work.",
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"Author\nTopic: TAR14 EP10: Having a Baby’s Gotta Be Easier Than This (China) (Read 68030 times)\n\nsaved and thanks to Kogs for the titleclues:Next On The Amazing RaceHaving a Baby's Gotta Be Easier Than This (China) Cara for the title\n\n*AN OLYMPIC CHALLENGE LEAVES ONE RACER PARALYZED WITH FEAR AND THE TEAM'S FUTURE IN JEOPARDY,An Olympic task leaves racers gasping for breath**One racer is paralyzed with fear-after coming this far, will they choose to go home?***In an Olympic-themed task in Beijing, Teams swim the same distance that Michael Phelps swam in the 400 meter individual medley,\n\n*..WHILE A GRUDGE BETWEEN TWO TEAMS CONTINUES TO LINGER** Animosity grows as two teams continue to hold a grudge against each other.***and two Teams continue to hold a grudge against each other\n\n* A Chinese foot massage puts racers through more pain than pleasure.",
"\n\nTask/ Detour?*AN OLYMPIC CHALLENGE LEAVES ONE RACER PARALYZED WITH FEAR AND THE TEAM'S FUTURE IN JEOPARDY,An Olympic task leaves racers gasping for breath**One racer is paralyzed with fear-after coming this far, will they choose to go home?***In an Olympic-themed task in Beijing, Teams swim the same distance that Michael Phelps swam in the 400 meter individual medley,\n\nMarge & Luke\n\nKisha & Jen\n\nRoadblock* A Chinese foot massage puts racers through more pain than pleasure.",
"\n\nHmmm...imo...i guess it has to be ladies other than margie bcoz if had been margie then the quote wud had been Having a baby is easier than this as gotta to be easier means said by someone who has still not experienced it...\n\nSomething related to PUSHING huge stones on the Great Wall? (",
"come to think of it, NO)Or its just something not related to pushing, lots of stuff is harder than having a baby...Im guessing eating something(TAR1,Beijing) or trasporting something(TAR6,ShangHai bricks)\n\nSomething related to PUSHING huge stones on the Great Wall? (",
"come to think of it, NO)Or its just something not related to pushing, lots of stuff is harder than having a baby...Im guessing eating something(TAR1,Beijing) or trasporting something(TAR6,ShangHai bricks)\n\nI believe every woman who gave birth to a child would say that having a baby is the hardest thing they ever got to do.",
"\n\nGman:According to an interview with BVM in TV Guide (for week of January 5) teams will be visiting fewer airports (rah rah) and will suffer through a blizzard in Central Siberia and will have \"Olympic-themed challenges in Beijing"
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"?",
"\n6\nLet t(w) = 314*w**3 + 3*w**2 - 4*w + 3. ",
"What is the units digit of t(1)?",
"\n6\nLet k(g) = 2*g**3 - 3*g**2 - 10. ",
"What is the tens digit of k(4)?",
"\n7\nSuppose 3*z + 4*q = 8460, 5*z = 3*q + 1909 + 12191. ",
"What is the tens digit of z?",
"\n2\nLet n(r) be the third derivative of -r**4/8 - r**3 - 2*r**2. ",
"Let j be n(-7). ",
"Suppose -j - 1 = -2*d. ",
"What is the units digit of d?",
"\n8\nLet s be (4/16)/(4/16). ",
"Let w be s + (6 + -4 - -2). ",
"Suppose 4*o = 2*j - 136, -5*j - w*o = -2*o - 275. ",
"What is the units digit of j?",
"\n8\nSuppose 11*i = 552 + 1670. ",
"What is the tens digit of i?",
"\n0\nLet m(h) = h**2 + 13*h + 2. ",
"Let b be m(-12). ",
"Let k = 35 + b. Suppose 0 = 2*g - k - 3. ",
"What is the units digit of g?",
"\n4\nSuppose 11120 = 3*g + i, 5*i - 7409 = 13*g - 15*g. ",
"What is the tens digit of g?",
"\n0\nLet c = 5 - 5. ",
"Let o(k) = -k**2 - 2*k + 720. ",
"Let x be o(c). ",
"What is the units digit of 14/4*x/126?",
"\n0\nWhat is the hundreds digit of (94/(-4))/(2/(-68))*1?",
"\n7\nSuppose -4*m + 2*y - 58 = 0, 2*m - 3*y + 17 = m. What is the tens digit of 66*((-2)/m)/(3/7)?",
"\n2\nLet t(r) be the third derivative of -r**6/120 + r**5/10 - r**4/6 + 13*r**3/6 - 6*r**2. ",
"What is the units digit of t(4)?",
"\n9\nSuppose 4 = 4*w - 4. ",
"Suppose -2*k + 18 = -0*l + w*l, -5*k - l + 25 = 0. ",
"What is the units digit of k?",
"\n4\nLet v(j) = -j**2 - 6*j - 7. ",
"Suppose 0 = 2*q - 3*l + 15, -l = -2*q - 4*l + 3. ",
"What is the units digit of v(q)?",
"\n2\nLet u(g) = -g**3 - 14*g**2 + 14*g + 5. ",
"Let b be u(-15). ",
"Let x = -13 + b. What is the units digit of (-2)/x + 144/63?",
"\n2\nLet s(v) = 1266*v**2 + 5*v - 3. ",
"What is the thousands digit of s(-1)?",
"\n1\nLet o be (-10)/(-3) + (-10)/(-15). ",
"Suppose -3*t = -o*a + 16 + 6, 3 = 3*a. ",
"Let q = t - -11. ",
"What is the units digit of q?",
"\n5\nLet k = -2871 + 4081. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of k?",
"\n2\nLet x = -97 + 100. ",
"Suppose x*a + 756 = 6*a. ",
"What is the tens digit of a?",
"\n5\nLet l = -18 + 25. ",
"Let p = -9 + l. What is the tens digit of (5/15)/(p/(-78))?",
"\n1\nLet v(z) = z**2 - 16*z + 30. ",
"Let o be v(13). ",
"What is the hundreds digit of 4/(-18) - 1271/o?",
"\n1\nLet n = 5 + -1. ",
"Suppose n*j - 4 = 2*j. ",
"What is the tens digit of -8*((-21)/4 + j)?",
"\n2\nLet w = 38 + -30. ",
"Let h(d) = 3*d + 1 + w - 2*d + 1. ",
"What is the units digit of h(5)?",
"\n5\nSuppose 32*p - 3832 = 24*p. ",
"What is the tens digit of p?",
"\n7\nSuppose -4*h + 2887 + 737 = 0. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of h?",
"\n9\nSuppose -8*v = -49 - 10863. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of v?",
"\n3\nSuppose 0 = 5*k - 3*p + 11, 5*k + 17 = 5*p + 2. ",
"What is the units digit of (-4)/(k - 3) - -76?",
"\n7\nSuppose -4 - 11 = -5*v. ",
"Let y be (-10 + 1)*92/(-414). ",
"Suppose v*a = a + y. What is the units digit of a?",
"\n1\nWhat is the units digit of 9 - 11*-165 - (7 - 2)?",
"\n9\nLet t be ((-36)/45)/(2/(-30)). ",
"Let v(n) = n**2 - 13*n + 20. ",
"What is the units digit of v(t)?",
"\n8\nLet x be (-11 + 0)*(-5 + 4). ",
"Let i be ((-64)/5)/(x/(-110)). ",
"Suppose -4*t + i = 8. ",
"What is the units digit of t?",
"\n0\nSuppose 8*r - 3 - 5 = 0. ",
"What is the tens digit of (46/1 + r)*1?",
"\n4\nLet b = -292 - -2765. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of b?",
"\n4\nLet i be ((-2)/((-8)/(-20)))/(-1). ",
"Suppose 11 = i*j - 109. ",
"What is the tens digit of j?",
"\n2\nLet p = -1242 - -2987. ",
"What is the tens digit of p?",
"\n4\nSuppose -7 + 4 = c. What is the units digit of (-522)/3*(-2)/(-9)*c?",
"\n6\nSuppose -3*x = x. Let q(f) = f**3 + 13*f**2 - 9*f + 28. ",
"Let r be q(-12). ",
"Suppose b = -5*n + 379, -r = -4*n - x*b + 5*b. ",
"What is the tens digit of n?",
"\n7\nLet d(k) = k - 9. ",
"Let u be d(6). ",
"Let b be 45/u*(2 + -3). ",
"Suppose -n + 1 = 3*z - b, -4*z - 175 = -5*n. ",
"What is the units digit of n?",
"\n1\nLet p(y) = -y**2 + 9*y + 22. ",
"What is the units digit of p(0)?",
"\n2\nWhat is the units digit of (-12)/9*43323/(-28)?",
"\n3\nSuppose 25*f = 29*f - 1700. ",
"What is the units digit of f?",
"\n5\nLet y = 10 + 3. ",
"Let x(n) = 4*n**2 - 8*n + 9. ",
"Let z(v) = -8*v**2 + 17*v - 19. ",
"Let o(u) = y*x(u) + 6*z(u). ",
"What is the units digit of o(3)?",
"\n3\nSuppose -3*p + 3 = 0, 6*j - 5*p = 3*j + 148. ",
"Let r = j + -9. ",
"What is the units digit of r?",
"\n2\nSuppose 11*r + 5*q = 8*r + 336, 0 = 3*r + q - 324. ",
"What is the units digit of r?",
"\n7\nSuppose 0 = 2*v + 5*z + 53 - 646, -1445 = -5*v - 5*z. ",
"Let c = -191 + v. Suppose -2*q + c = -17. ",
"What is the tens digit of q?",
"\n5\nLet s = 8431 + -5777. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of s?",
"\n6\nLet o = 29 - 27. ",
"Suppose u = o*u - 86. ",
"What is the tens digit of u?",
"\n8\nSuppose -3*n + 3*z - 138 = 0, -139 = -0*n + 3*n - 4*z. ",
"What is the tens digit of (-206)/(-10) + (-18)/n?",
"\n2\nLet g(q) = -19*q + 184. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of g(-19)?",
"\n5\nLet j(f) = 2*f**3 + 4*f**2 + 3*f - 1. ",
"Let t be j(-3). ",
"Let l = t + 98. ",
"Let w = -34 + l. What is the units digit of w?",
"\n6\nSuppose -4*b - 8 = -5*b. ",
"Suppose 2 = -u + 5. ",
"Suppose -b + u = -w. ",
"What is the units digit of w?",
"\n5\nSuppose 854 = 10*t + 2454. ",
"Let o = t + 275. ",
"What is the units digit of o?",
"\n5\nSuppose -15 - 5 = 5*n. ",
"Let o be 1*(8/n)/(-1). ",
"Suppose 0*b + 3*b + 9 = 0, -5*a + o*b = -206. ",
"What is the tens digit of a?",
"\n4\nSuppose n - 328 = d + 32, -3*n + 1078 = -d. ",
"What is the units digit of n?",
"\n9\nLet b = -13 - -15. ",
"Suppose 0 = p + 2*i + 25 + b, 3*i - 148 = 5*p. ",
"Let h = p + 32. ",
"What is the units digit of h?",
"\n3\nLet t(r) = -r + 12. ",
"Let o be (-1 - -2)*21/3. ",
"Let y be t(o). ",
"Suppose 10*b - 5*b = -25, y*b + 87 = 2*v. ",
"What is the tens digit of v?",
"\n3\nLet p(g) = 94*g**3 - 4*g**2 + 2*g + 1. ",
"What is the tens digit of p(1)?",
"\n9\nLet u(w) be the third derivative of 0*w + 1/24*w**4 + 0 + 0*w**3 - 11*w**2. ",
"What is the units digit of u(5)?",
"\n5\nLet a(y) be the first derivative of 8*y**3/3 + y**2 + 3*y - 6. ",
"Let x be a(-4). ",
"Suppose -6*u + x = -159. ",
"What is the tens digit of u?",
"\n4\nLet f(z) = -z - 1. ",
"Let y(u) = -14. ",
"Let d(a) = -10*f(a) + 2*y(a). ",
"What is the units digit of d(10)?",
"\n2\nSuppose -14 = r - 2*t, -12 = 2*r + t + 3*t. ",
"Let p be (2/3)/(r/(-105)). ",
"Suppose -7 = 6*l - p*l. ",
"What is the units digit of l?",
"\n7\nSuppose 1108 = -10*n + 12*n. ",
"What is the units digit of n?",
"\n4\nSuppose -17 + 12 = l. Let r be ((-26)/(-5))/((-1)/l). ",
"What is the tens digit of 750/r - 4/(-26)?",
"\n2\nSuppose -2*a = -28*q + 32*q - 4292, -4*a + 5*q + 8571 = 0. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of a?",
"\n1\nLet p = 3597 + -2446. ",
"What is the tens digit of p?",
"\n5\nLet k(b) = -25*b + 6. ",
"Let h be k(5). ",
"Let w = h - -190. ",
"Suppose -2*x = 5*q + 2*x - 124, -3*q + x = -w. ",
"What is the tens digit of q?",
"\n2\nLet n = 30 + -77. ",
"Suppose -3*i - 97 = 116. ",
"Let w = n - i. What is the tens digit of w?",
"\n2\nLet n be 0*(5/(-2) - -2). ",
"Suppose 2*h - 4*b + 16 = n, 3*h = -0*b + 3*b - 9. ",
"Suppose h*v = -4*g - 2*v + 232, 0 = g + 2*v - 59. ",
"What is the units digit of g?",
"\n7\nSuppose -31*c = -33*c - 6, 4*c - 1478 = -5*x. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of x?",
"\n2\nLet v(f) = f**2 + 3*f - 6. ",
"Let q be v(-5). ",
"Let i(c) = 5*c - 2*c**3 + 0 + c**3 + 5*c**2 - 2 - 3. ",
"What is the tens digit of i(q)?",
"\n3\nSuppose 4*n = -26 - 10. ",
"Suppose 5*h = -13 - 12. ",
"Let x = h - n. What is the units digit of x?",
"\n4\nLet i(p) = -p**3 + 8*p**2 - 8*p + 7. ",
"Let o be i(7). ",
"Suppose -2*y + 474 = 4*f, 9 + o = -3*y. ",
"What is the hundreds digit of f?",
"\n1\nSuppose 2*p = 21*p - 22838. ",
"What is the tens digit of p?",
"\n0\nLet p(v) be the first derivative of -v**3/2 - 2*v + 5. ",
"Let k(u) be the first derivative of p(u). ",
"What is the units digit of k(-9)?",
"\n7\nLet u(m) = -m**3 + 1 - 8 - 17*m - 13*m**2 - 2*m**2. ",
"What is the units digit of u(-14)?",
"\n5\nSuppose 3*k + 2 = 83. ",
"Let b be k*(-1)/((-3)/(-4)). ",
"Let m = -24 - b. What is the tens digit of m?",
"\n1\nLet r be (-24)/9*27/(-12). ",
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"\n\nSo after three days packed with cosplayers, celebrities and memorabilia, here are 14 things we learned at London Film & Comic Con.",
"\n\n1. ",
"Donald Trump may be more of a Back to the Future fan than we thought\n\nWhen asked if the Biff character in the films was inspired by Trump, Michael J Fox explained that Trump wasn’t such a well known character back then, adding ‘maybe Donald Trump was inspired by Biff..?’",
"\n\n\n\n\n2. ",
"Hayley Atwell takes her dubsmash war very seriously\n\nHer followers on Twitter will be well versed in the superb dubsmash videos that she’s been posting lately. ",
"What they might not know is that Atwell and her co-star, James D’Arcy, flew to Atlanta just to film the epic dubsmash video with Chris Evans that won the battle.",
"\n\nAccording to Atwell, they were there for about five hours and then flew back.",
"\n\nHere’s the dubsmash in question:\n\nMic dropped, @clarkgregg @ChloeBennet4 ? ",
"Consider it picked up and thrown out of the f***ing window… pic.twitter.com/HJFGi3yOUC — Hayley Atwell (@HayleyAtwell) July 15, 2015\n\n3. ",
"Clark Gregg is just as committed to the dubsmash fun\n\nAtwell is not the only one dedicated to the cause. ",
"According to the actress, he has threatened to show up on the set of Agent Carter dressed as Peggy after the below video was made.",
"\n\n4. ",
"Jon Snow is really, really dead\n\nOr so insists the cast.",
"\n\nWhen asked if he was really dead, Carice Van Houten (who plays Melisandre) said he ‘cannot be deader’, whilst Daniel Portman (who plays Podrick) described Snow’s death as ‘pretty decisive’ and ‘pretty final’ when asked which of the many deaths on the show has been his favourite.",
"\n\nOf course, they were both smiling as they said it so make of that what you will.",
"\n\n5. ",
"Sigourney Weaver is excited about the Ghostbusters reboot\n\n‘The women are going to do an awesome job,’ she said. ‘",
"Whatever happens, we’re in for a treat and I can’t wait to see the ladies do their thing.’",
"\n\nSigourney Weaver talking all things alien and ghostly (Picture: Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)\n\n6. ",
"The Agent Carter crew (and cast!) ",
"are all about pranks\n\nAtwell said that there are numerous videos of different cast and crew members which were taken after someone jumped out to scare them.",
"\n\nThe blooper reel for this show is surely going to be an absolute treat!",
"\n\n7. ",
"The Back the Future projection of 2015 got one thing very right\n\nThough we sadly aren’t all driving flying cars, Michael J Fox says that the receding hairline they gave his character has proven to be pretty accurate.",
"\n\n8. ",
"Feminism was a key issue for many of the panelists\n\nActresses Hayley Atwell and Sigourney Weaver discussed feminism in their talks, with Atwell commenting that embodying a character like Peggy, who has become such a feminist icon, ‘gives my work a lot more meaning’.",
"\n\nShe went on to say that ‘it’s a mark of maturity for Marvel that they will have a woman lead their show.’",
"\n\n\n\nShe added: ‘I feel almost genderless when it comes to working with Marvel. ",
"I dont feel like I’m a woman in a man’s world. ",
"I feel seen by them as a human being and heard for who I really am as a person, first, rather than just my sex.’",
"\n\nWeaver spoke fondly of the writing team behind her infamous character, Ripley, saying: ‘She’s just written, as a character. ",
"She’s not written as a woman with a breakdown scene here and this and that… They just wrote her. [",
"The writers] respect women and they just wrote her the way you would a man… She’s certainly a woman but she isn’t written that way… Women [at that time] were being written in a kind of “womanly” way and they didn’t do any of that.’",
"\n\n9. ",
"Michael J Fox is returning to The Good Wife\n\nHe told the audience that he just recently shot another episode as the manipulative Louis Canning (or ‘Loose Cannon’ as he likes to call him) and there’s another one in the works.",
"\n\n10. ",
"Bill Paxton wants to burn the negative to Predator 2\n\n\n\nPaxton seemed generally proud of his body of work – that is until someone mentioned Predator 2. ‘",
"If I could buy the negative to that film and destroy it, I would,’ he told the audience. ‘",
"I just thought it was a character that didn’t completely come off.’",
"\n\n11. ",
"Shadowhunters looks like True Blood\n\nAt least that’s what author Cassandra Clare thinks after seeing the sizzle reel recently. ",
"The author added that this adaptation of her books looks to be ‘a little edgier’.",
"\n\n\n12. ",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is very comfortable being naked\n\nBill Paxton gave the audience a reenactment of the moment, whilst filming the first Terminator, when their characters meet and Arnie just dropped his dressing gown and started walking towards him. ‘",
"He was so comfortable being naked,’ Paxton said, ‘it was like he had a 3-piece suit on.’",
"\n\n13. ",
"Fans want a Stargate anniversary reunion\n\nRichard Dean Anderson said that no such idea has been put to him or the other actors from the show but the crowd certainly seemed to like the idea. ",
"There are still two years to arrange it so let’s make it happen Stargate fans!",
"\n\n14. ",
"Sigourney Weaver changed her name to suit her height\n\nShe decided to elongate it from Sue to Sigourney because she says a short name just didn’t seem to suit her. ",
"Though people now call her Sig so it sort of happened anyway!",
"\n\nMORE: Here’s Channing Tatum helping Stan Lee off stage at Comic Con like a true gent\n\nMORE: San Diego Comic Con 2015: All the trailers you NEED to see"
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"Coming out of Nottingham, England, the show airs Saturday, September 29 live at 4:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. PT. ",
"The main event of the show is a very good Heavyweight battle between Stefan Struve and Stipe Miocic, but this is not a main event only kind of show - there's good stuff on both the main card and the prelims. ",
"Here, we preview the five prelims available on Facebook. ",
"The Facebook stream begins at 1:30 p.m. ET / 10:30 a.m. PT.",
"\n\nKyle Kingsbury (11-4(1)) vs. Jimi Manuwa (11-0)\n\nThis is the main event of the prelim card and features TUF veteran Kingsbury vs. undefeated UFC newcomer Manuwa. ",
"Kingsbury has been a part of the UFC since 2008, which is kind of amazing considering how poorly he started for the company. ",
"On season 8 of The Ultimate Fighter, Kingsbury lost to Ryan Bader for a spot in the house, got in as an injury replacement, lost his first fight in the house to Krzysztof Soszynski, then lost on the finale to Tom Lawlor. ",
"That's a bad start, yet the poorly nicknamed Kingsbu managed to turn things around winning his next 4 straight before losing a decision to Stephan Bonnar and being steamrolled by Glover Teixeira.",
"\n\nKingsbury has steadily improved over the years, with his best performance coming against Fabio Maldonado last year. ",
"His work at American Kickboxing Academy has made him a solid fighter overall, who is able to use his size and strength to his advantage during striking exchanges, particularly from the Thai clinch, where he is able to show his more brutal side. ",
"He still remains a work in progress though, with some weaknesses on the ground, and questions about his ability to keep the pace up over 15 minutes.",
"\n\nMore UFC on FUEL TV 5 Dissections\n\nStruve vs. Miocic | Hardy vs. Sadollah | Pickett vs. Jabouin\n\nHathaway vs. Maguire | Sass vs. Wiman | Mills vs. Ludwig\n\nJimi Manuwa makes his UFC debut here after putting together an 11-0 record in his 4 year career. ",
"So far, he's fought exclusively in England, with his biggest win coming over Anthony Rea. ",
"He has a colorful past, including spending time in prison for burglary. ",
"Manuwa's UFC debut has been a long time coming, as he has twice before turned down the chance to fight in the UFC, feeling it was not yet the right time for him. ",
"Now, at 32 years old, he thinks he's ready - we'll see how that works out.",
"\n\nManuwa is a very aggressive fighter who has finished all of his fights - most in the opening minutes. ",
"Manuwa is primarily a boxer, with big power, who likes to charge in and swing. ",
"And he does well with that style. ",
"But he also sacrifices technique, standing very upright and flat footed. ",
"On the ground, he mainly looks to keep up the attack with ground and pound. ",
"Like Kingsbury, he is good from the clinch, using both knees and dirty boxing uppercuts.",
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"Manuwa could easily blitz him and earn a fast, definitive win here, but I think Kingsbury survives early and is able to impose his will for the win.",
"\n\nPrediction: Kyle Kingsbury by decision\n\nMore SBN coverage of UFC on Fuel TV\n\nAndy Ogle (8-1) vs. Akira Corassani (9-3(1))\n\nThis is a battle between two TUF veterans both making their proper UFC debuts. ",
"Season 16's Ogle and season 15's Corassani have both seen their debuts delayed due to injury, but now get the chance to shine on Fuel.",
"\n\nOgle surprised me on TUF, scoring a small upset over Mike Rio to make the quarter-finals. ",
"He has a ton of heart, plus a fun personality, but to be honest, he didn't much impress me prior to the Rio fight. ",
"He's a well rounded fighter, who likes the stand-up but seems more comfortable on the feet. ",
"His striking remains a bit stiff, but he has a nice trip takedown, and good submission defense on the ground. ",
"Again, his heart carried the day against Rio, but his striking troubles cost him a KO loss to eventual finalist Al Iaquinta.",
"\n\nCorassani is a bit of a wild card. ",
"On TUF, he was involved in a lot of controversy, including various altercations in the house, a questionable win where he may have tapped, and a loss to Dennis Bermudez where he was choked unconscious. ",
"In that fight with Bermudez, Corassani had success with his striking, but it was his lack of submission defense that ultimately cost him.",
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"He's not a submission machine, but he's the superior grappler and can take control of the fight on the ground. ",
"Corassani is coming off, in theory, a 19 month layoff, but his 3 TUF fights took place in that time. ",
"This is a tough one to pick, but I like Corassani to exploit Ogle's striking deficits for the KO. ",
"But Ogle's proved me wrong before.",
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"And, like that fight, it's a battle of strikers. ",
"Here, Watson is the prospect, and he's a good one - better than his record would indicate. ",
"Watson got off to a bit of a bumpy start to his career, facing stiff competition early and going 4-3 to start his career. ",
"But since 2008 he's gone 11-1 with wins over the likes of Ninja Rua and John Maguire. ",
"He now trains at Tristar Gym and Greg Jackson's. ",
"Watson is a powerful striker, who is able to score stoppage victories using all manner of strikes. ",
"Those stoppages can be sudden, or more patient. ",
"As you would expect from anyone who trains at those camps, he is solid in all his fundamentals, including wrestling, though he rarely uses it. ",
"His one area of weakness is submission defense, though I don't see that being a factor here.",
"\n\nBrad Tavares has gone 3-1 in the UFC, and is coming off the biggest win of his career over Dongi Yang. ",
"Tavares fights like a truck - he has a seriously tough chin and likes to push forward throwing heavy hands. ",
"He's not all raw power though, as he does a good job using technique to find the openings in his opponent's defense. ",
"His one loss comes from Aaron Simpson, who grinded Tavares down. ",
"That fight showed improvements in Tavares's wrestling defense, though it still remains an area he could improve on. ",
"But like Watson's submission defense gap, I don't see that playing a role here.",
"\n\nThis looks to be a straight forward striking battle, with two men hunting for the KO and absorbing a lot of shots along the way. ",
"Tavares has more Octagon experience, but Watson makes up for that with his more diverse striking, incorporating more kicks and knees in addition to his hands. ",
"I see that variety of striking being key here.",
"\n\nPrediction: Tom Watson by decision\n\nDaMarques Johnson (16-11) vs. Gunnar Nelson (9-0-1)\n\nTUF veteran, debuting European prospect... you know the drill by now. ",
"This one sees season 9 runner-up DaMarques Johnson representing TUF. ",
"Johnson takes this fight on short notice, which is why it is being contested at a 175 pound catchweight. ",
"Johnson has a long frame and he uses it well in the stand-up game, which is where he is most proficient. ",
"He has solid striking, including nice knees from the clinch. ",
"On the ground, his offensive grappling is a bit underrated, with some slick submission wins, but his defense leaves something to be desired, as he has often been caught. ",
"That's unfortunate for this fight, as Nelson is a ground expert. ",
"The Iclandic fighter is a Renzo Gracie black belt with impressive grappling credentials. ",
"But he's also steadily becoming an even more complete MMA fighter who can hold his own on the feet. ",
"Here is video of him in action.",
"\n\nJohnson's biggest advantage here is his size, as he'll have a height and reach advantage over Nelson. ",
"If he can use that advantage to keep it standing and on the outside, he could control the striking. ",
"But eventually, I see this on the ground, where Nelson is far superior.",
"\n\nPrediction: Gunnar Nelson by submission, round 2\n\nJason Young (9-5) vs. Robbie Peralta (15-3(1))\n\nThis is a fun Featherweight clash, and should be a good opener. ",
"Young is 1-2 in the UFC. ",
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"In particular, efficient offline designs have been found for the throughput-maximization, remaining-energy-maximization and completion-time-minimization problems [@OzelO2011; @OrhanO2014; @YangJ2012TC]. ",
"However, effective solutions to the offline packet-delay-minimization problem are still yet to be found. ",
"A very recent study in [@TongT2015] considered the packet-delay-minimization problem in a non-fading channel and obtained a deep insight of the solution structure given through the KKT conditions. ",
"However, the optimal solution was derived for the dual problem rather than the original problem. ",
"Since the original problem is non-convex, there is a duality gap [@BoydS2004BOOK] between the original and dual problems.",
"\n\nAnother interesting issue is the relationship among the pa-cket-delay-minimization, completion-time-minimization, and throughput-maximization problems. ",
"For the last two problems, they are linked through the maximum departure curve (see Section V in [@OzelO2011]). ",
"However, it is unclear whether the first problem has any correlation with the last two problems. ",
"Intuitively, the first two problems are related: the quicker the transmission is completed, the smaller the packet delay is. ",
"A similar observation was also made in the literature (e.g., [@YangJ2010; @OrhanO2014]). ",
"Then, through the maximum departure curve, all these three problems appear to be highly related. ",
"Nevertheless, there has not been any analytical studied on the extent to which the three problems are related and, more importantly, whether the optimal offline transmission designs for the three problems have the similar behaviors.",
"\n\nOur Contribution\n----------------\n\nIn this work, we tackle the aforementioned challenge of finding an effective solution to the offline packet-delay-minimization problem in a general fading channel. ",
"We consider a time-slotted system and use the average data queue length to measure delay, which is a commonly adopted delay metric in the literature [@SharmaV2010; @ZhangF2014]. ",
"Although the formulated delay-minimization problem is non-convex, we are able to transform it into a single convex optimization problem, which can be solved very efficiently.",
"\n\nIn order to obtain insights into the behavior of the optimal offline delay-minimizing transmission policy, we focus on a special case where the battery energy is insufficient to clear the data queue in all time slots. ",
"In this case, we analytically show that the optimal transmission policy has a weighted-directional-water-filling structure for the power allocation. ",
"In particular, the optimal policy tends to allocate more power in earlier time slots and less power in later time slots. ",
"This result is further verified by simulations in more general cases.",
"\n\nThe insights obtained from the optimal transmission policy also allow us to investigate the relationship and difference among the delay-minimization problem studied in this work, the completion-time minimization problem in [@YangJ2012TC], and the throughput-maximization problem in [@OzelO2011]. ",
"Surprisingly, the optimal offline solution to the delay-minimization problem is found to be fundamentally different: the delay-minimizing solution tends to reduce the transmit power over time, while the completion-time-minimizing and throughput-maximizing solutions trend to increase the transmit power over time.",
"\n\nPaper Organization and Notation\n-------------------------------\n\nThe system model and problem description are given in [Section \\[sec:System Model\\]]{} and [Section \\[sec:Problem Description: Minimizing the Average Data Queue Length\\]]{}, respectively. ",
"In [Section \\[sec:Optimal Solution for the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, the delay-minimization problem is efficiently solved and the structure of the optimal solution is studied. ",
"Simulation results are presented in [Section \\[sec:Simulation Examples\\]]{} to corroborate our analysis. ",
"Finally, the concluding remarks are given in [Section \\[sec:Conclusion\\]]{}.",
"\n\nSystem Model {#sec:System Model}\n============\n\nWe consider a point-to-point communication system with an energy harvesting transmitter (see [Fig.",
" \\[fig:The Transmitter-Receiver Pair\\]]{}). ",
"The time is slotted, and $t \\in \\{1,\\ldots,T\\} =: \\mathcal{T}$ stands for the $t$^th^ time slot, where $T \\in \\mathbb{Z}_+$ is the total number of slots. ",
"For each time slot, the battery energy of the transmitter is $E_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$, and is determined by the battery energy equation: $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Battery Energy Equation}\nE_t = E_{t-1} + H_t - p_t, \\quad t \\in \\mathcal{T},\\end{aligned}$$ where $H_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ is the harvested energy and $p_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ is the transmit power. ",
"Note that $E_0 \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ represents the initial battery energy. ",
"The data queue length of the transmitter is $Q_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$, determined by the data queue equation: $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Data Queue Equation}\nQ_t = Q_{t-1} + D_t - r(p_t,g_t), \\quad t \\in \\mathcal{T},\\end{aligned}$$ where $D_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ is the amount of data arrived and $r(p_t,g_t)$ is the rate function, which is only dependent on the transmit power $p_t$ and the power gain of the communication channel $g_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$. We label $r(p_t,g_t) \\equiv r_{g_t}(p_t)$ and assume that $r_{g_t}: \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+ \\rightarrow \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ is strictly increasing and concave, and has a continuous second derivative, e.g., for fading channel with Gaussian white noise $r_{g_t}(p_t) = \\log(1+g_t p_t)$. Also, $Q_0 \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ is the initial data queue length.",
"\n\n![",
"The point-to-point communication system with an energy harvesting transmitter. []{",
"data-label=\"fig:The Transmitter-Receiver Pair\"}](SystemModel.pdf){width=\"0.8\\columnwidth\"}\n\nNote that $E_t$ and $Q_t$ for any $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$ can be totally determined by , , $E_0$ and $Q_0$. Since we consider an offline scenario, the energy arrival $H_t$, data arrival $D_t$, and channel gain $g_t$ are known in advance. ",
"This completes the description of the system model.",
"\n\nProblem Description: Minimizing the Average Data Queue Length {#sec:Problem Description: Minimizing the Average Data Queue Length}\n=============================================================\n\nIn this paper, we use the average data queue length as the delay metric, which is commonly adopted in the literature [@SharmaV2010; @ZhangF2014]. ",
"The average data queue length $\\mathcal{L}$ is given by $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Average Data Queue Length}\n\\mathcal{L} = \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} Q_t.\\end{aligned}$$ The average-data-queue-minimization problem is to find $p_t$ to minimize $\\mathcal{L}$ in with constraints from the battery energy equation and the data queue length equation . ",
"Since does not explicitly contain $p_t$, we rewrite $\\mathcal{L}$ as $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Average Data Queue Length Rewritten}\n\\begin{split}\n\\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} Q_t &\\stackrel {(a)}{=} \\frac {1} {T} \\left\\{T Q_0 + \\sum_{t=1}^T \\sum_{i=1}^t\\left[D_i - r_{g_i}(p_i)\\right]\\right\\} \\\\\n&= Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\left[D_t - r_{g_t}(p_t)\\right],\n\\end{split}\\end{aligned}$$ where $(a)$ follows from $$\\begin{aligned}\nQ_t = Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^t \\left[D_i - r_{g_i}(p_i)\\right],~t\\in\\mathcal{T}.\\end{aligned}$$\n\nWe also rewrite and to obtain the battery energy and data queue constraints for the optimization problem. ",
"More specifically, the battery energy equation can be rewritten as a series of inequalities, called the battery energy constraints $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Battery Energy Constraints}\nE_t = E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^t (H_i - p_i) \\geq 0,~t \\in \\mathcal{T}.\\end{aligned}$$ Similarly, we can get the data queue constraints from the data queue equation as $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Data Queue Constraints}\nQ_t = Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^t (D_i - r_{g_i}(p_i)) \\geq 0,~t \\in \\mathcal{T}.\\end{aligned}$$ Also note that $p_t$ should be non-negative for $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$. To sum up, we can write the offline average-data-queue-minimization problem into an explicit form whose optimization variables are $p_t$ ($t \\in \\mathcal{T}$), which is given as follows:\n\n\\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\] The average-data-queue-minimization problem is $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem}\n\\begin{array}{c l}\n\\underset {p_t,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}} {\\mathrm{minimize}} & Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\left[D_t - r_{g_t}(p_t)\\right]\\\\\n\\mathrm{subject~to}~&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} p_i \\leq E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} H_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} r_{g_i}(p_i) \\leq Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} D_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&p_t \\geq 0,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\n\\end{array}\\end{aligned}$$ where the optimal solution and optimal objective are labelled as $p_t^*$ ($t \\in \\mathcal{T}$) and $\\mathcal{L}^*$, respectively.",
"\n\nIt should be noted that [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} is not a convex optimization problem, since the data queue constraints correspond to the intersection of non-convex regions w.r.t. ",
"$p_t$. Nevertheless, in [Section \\[sec:Solving the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, we will show that [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} can be converted to a standard convex optimization problem with transformation on the optimization variables.",
"\n\nOptimal Solution for the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem {#sec:Optimal Solution for the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem}\n================================================================\n\nThis section is divided into two parts. ",
"In [Section \\[sec:Solving the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, we discuss how to efficiently solve [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} by transforming it into a standard convex optimization problem. ",
"In [Section \\[sec:Discussions on the Structure of the Optimal Solution\\]]{}, we provide insights into the structure of the optimal solution.",
"\n\nSolving the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem {#sec:Solving the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem}\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nIn this subsection, we discuss how to convert [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} into a standard convex optimization problem such that it can be solved efficiently.",
"\n\nLet map $\\varphi_t : \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+ \\rightarrow \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ ($t \\in \\mathcal{T}$) be $C^2$-diffeomorphic[^1]. ",
"With the transformation $p_t = \\varphi_t(q_t)$, [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} can be rewritten as $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem Rewritten}\n\\begin{array}{c l}\n\\underset {q_t,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}} {\\mathrm{minimize}} & Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\left[D_t - r_{g_t}(\\varphi_t(q_t))\\right]\\\\\n\\mathrm{subject~to}~&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} \\varphi_i(q_i) \\leq E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} H_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} r_{g_i}(\\varphi_i(q_i)) \\leq Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} D_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&\\varphi_t(q_t) \\geq 0,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\n\\end{array}\\end{aligned}$$ where $r_{g_t}(\\varphi_t(q_t))$ is twice continuously differentiable, since both $r_{g_t}$ and $\\varphi_t$ are twice continuously differentiable.",
"\n\nThe following theorem gives the necessary and sufficient condition for guaranteeing the convexity of .",
"\n\n\\[thm:Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Convexity of Transformed Problem\\] Problem is a standard convex optimization problem if and only if $\\forall t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Convexity of Transformed Problem}\n\\varphi_t (q_t) = r_{g_t}^{-1} (a_t q_t + b_t),\\end{aligned}$$ where $a_t \\in \\mathbb{R}_+$ and $b_t \\in \\mathbb{R}$.\n\nThe proof is divided into three steps. ",
"In the first step, we show that the condition $\\varphi_t(q_t) \\geq 0$ is equivalent to $q_t \\geq 0$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$. In the second step, we prove the necessary and sufficient condition for the convexity of Problem is that the map $\\varphi_t$ is convex and the composition $r_{g_t} \\circ \\varphi_t$ is affine. ",
"In the third step, we show that holds.",
"\n\ni) Since, for each $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, $\\varphi_t$ is bijective from $\\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$ to $\\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$, we can derive that if $p_t = \\varphi_t(q_t) \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$, then $q_t \\in \\overline{\\mathbb{R}}_+$, vice versa. ",
"Thus, the domains of $\\varphi_t(q_t) \\geq 0$ and $q_t \\geq 0$ are totally the same, and Problem is equivalent to the following problem $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem Rewritten 2}\n\\begin{array}{c l}\n\\underset {q_t,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}} {\\mathrm{minimize}} & Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\left[D_t - r_{g_t}(\\varphi_t(q_t))\\right]\\\\\n\\mathrm{subject~to}~&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} \\varphi_i(q_i) \\leq E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} H_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} r_{g_i}(\\varphi_i(q_i)) \\leq Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} D_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&q_t \\geq 0,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}.",
"\n\\end{array}\\end{aligned}$$\n\nii) Now, we prove the necessary and sufficient condition for the convexity of Problem instead of Problem .",
"\n\nNecessity. ",
"If Problem is a standard convex optimization problem, then the objective function and the inequality constraints are convex (see Chapter 4.2 in [@BoydS2004BOOK]). ",
"Firstly, we focus on the battery energy constraints (the first row of the constraints in ). ",
"For $t = 1$, we have $\\varphi_1(q_1) \\leq E_0 + H_1$ and this means that $\\varphi_1(q_1)$ is convex w.r.t. ",
"$q_1$. For $t = 2$, we have $\\varphi_1(q_1) + \\varphi_2(q_2)$ is convex w.r.t. ",
"$q_1$ and $q_2$, which implies $\\varphi_2(q_2)$ is convex w.r.t. ",
"$q_2$, since $\\varphi_1(q_1)$ is convex w.r.t. ",
"$q_1$. Likewise, we can derive that $\\varphi_t$ is convex for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$.\n\nSimilarly, the data queue constraints (the second row of the constraints in ) tell that $r_{g_t}\\circ\\varphi_t$ is also convex for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$.\n\nFurthermore, with convex $r_{g_t}\\circ\\varphi_t$, we see that the objective function is concave, which implies it is affine (both convex and concave), so does the map $r_{g_t}\\circ\\varphi_t$. This completes the necessity.",
"\n\nSufficiency. ",
"If $\\varphi_t$ is convex and $r_{g_t}\\circ\\varphi_t$ is affine (affinity also means convexity) for $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, then the objective function as well as all the inequality constraints are convex. ",
"Therefore, Problem is a convex optimization problem.",
"\n\niii) Since the composition $r_{g_t}\\circ\\varphi_t$ is affine and invertible, we have $r_{g_t}(\\varphi_t(q_t)) = a_t q_t + b_t$, where $a_t \\in \\mathbb{R}\\setminus \\{0\\}$ and $b_t \\in \\mathbb{R}$. This means $\\varphi_t(q_t) = r_{g_t}^{-1} (a_t q_t + b_t)$. Note that $r_{g_t}^{-1}$ is convex, and to make $\\varphi_t$ convex, $a_t$ should be greater than $0$. To sum up, condition is established.",
"\n\n[Theorem \\[thm:Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Convexity of Transformed Problem\\]]{} gives an important guideline for selecting the transformation $\\varphi_t$. With this guideline, we further choose $a_t = 1$ and $b_t = 0$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$ such that the transformation is $\\varphi_t = r_{g_t}^{-1}$, which can largely reduce the complexity of the transformed problem. ",
"Therefore, we obtain the following transformed problem by applying the transformation $p_t = r_{g_t}^{-1}(q_t)$ for [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}.",
"\n\n\\[prob:Transformed Problem\\] With $p_t = r_{g_t}^{-1}(q_t)$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} is transformed into the following convex optimization problem $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Transformed Problem}\n\\begin{array}{c l}\n\\underset {q_t,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}} {\\mathrm{minimize}} & Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\left(D_t - q_t\\right)\\\\\n\\mathrm{subject~to}~&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} r_{g_i}^{-1}(q_i) \\leq E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} H_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} q_i \\leq Q_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} D_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&q_t \\geq 0,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\n\\end{array}\\end{aligned}$$ where the optimal solution is $q_t^*$ ($t \\in \\mathcal{T}$), but not necessarily unique[^2]. ",
"The optimal objective is the same as that in [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, i.e., $\\mathcal{L}^*$.\n\n\\[rek:Solving the Original Problem with the Transformed Problem\\] The optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} can be derived in the following way $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Solving the Original Problem with the Transformed Problem}\np_t^* = r_{g_t}^{-1}(q_t^*),~t \\in \\mathcal{T},\\end{aligned}$$ where $q_t^*$ is the optimal solution to [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{}. ",
"This implies that we can use to obtain the optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} after deriving the optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{}. ",
"Since [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{} is convex, it can be solved efficiently (e.g., using the interior-point method [@BoydS2004BOOK]). ",
"Therefore, the optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} can also be derived efficiently.",
"\n\nDiscussions on the Structure of the Optimal Solution {#sec:Discussions on the Structure of the Optimal Solution}\n----------------------------------------------------\n\nIn general, it is difficult to derive the structure of the optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{} by its KKT conditions. ",
"However, the KKT conditions can give insights into the structure of the optimal solution when $Q_t > 0$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$. Such a case happens when the transmitter does not have sufficient energy in the battery to completely clear the data queue in all time slots. ",
"In order to shed light on the structure of the delay-minimization transmission policy, we study this special case using the original problem ([Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}) rather than [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{}.",
"\n\nIn this special case, since $Q_t > 0$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, the data queue constraints in [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} can be removed. ",
"We further assume the channel is a fading channel with Gaussian white noise, and the rate function is $r_{g_t}(p_t) = \\log (1+g_t p_t)$, which achieves the channel capacity. ",
"Noting that to minimize $Q_0 + \\frac {1} {T} \\sum_{t=1}^{T} (T+1-t) [D_t - r_{g_t}(p_t)]$ is equivalent to maximize $\\sum_{t=1}^{T} (T+1-t) r_{g_t}(p_t)$, we can rewrite [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{} as the following problem.",
"\n\n\\[prob:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem\\] $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem}\n\\begin{array}{l c l}\n&\\underset {p_t,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}} {\\mathrm{maximize}} & \\sum_{t=1}^{T} \\left(T+1-t\\right) \\log (1+g_t p_t)\\\\\n&\\mathrm{subject~to}~&\\sum_{i=1}^{t} p_i \\leq E_0 + \\sum_{i=1}^{t} H_i,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T},\\\\\n&~&p_t \\geq 0,\\,t\\in\\mathcal{T}.",
"\n\\end{array}\\end{aligned}$$\n\nInterestingly, [Problem \\[prob:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem\\]]{} maximizes the throughput over all time slots with a weighting factor $(T+1-t)$ applied to each time slot. ",
"It is a convex optimization problem and *has a unique maximizer*, because $\\log (1+g_t p_t)$ is strictly concave for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$ and the constraints are all affine. ",
"We claim that the solution to [Problem \\[prob:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem\\]]{} has a weighted-directional-water-filling structure[^3], which is an extension of the directional-water-filling structure in [@OzelO2011].",
"\n\nApplying KKT conditions to [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, we can derive the structure of the optimal power as $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Optimal Powers}\np_t^* = \\left(\\frac {T+1-t}{\\sum_{i=t}^{T}\\lambda_i - \\eta_t} - \\frac {1}{g_t}\\right)^+,\\end{aligned}$$ where $\\lambda_t$ and $\\eta_t$ correspond to the battery energy constraints (the first row of the constraints in ) and $p_t \\geq 0$. Defining $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Water Levels}\n\\nu_t = \\frac {1} {\\sum_{i=t}^{T}\\lambda_i - \\eta_t},\\end{aligned}$$ we have the following theorem.",
"\n\n\\[thm:Nondecreasing Property of Water Levels\\] Let the time set $\\mathcal{T}_0$ contains those $t$ corresponding to $p_t^* = 0$, i.e., $\\mathcal{T}_0 = \\{t: p_t^* = 0, t \\in \\mathcal{T}\\}$. We have $\\nu_{t+1} \\geq \\nu_t$ for all $t \\in \\{1,\\ldots,T-1\\}\\backslash{\\mathcal{T}_0}$. Furthermore, $\\forall t \\in \\{1,\\ldots,T-1\\}\\backslash{\\mathcal{T}_0}$, if the battery energy constraint (the first row of the constraints in ) is satisfied without equality, then $\\nu_{t+1} = \\nu_t$.\n\nWhen $p_t^* > 0$, it follows the complementary slackness (see Chapter 5.5.2 in [@BoydS2004BOOK]) that $\\eta_t = 0$, and $\\nu_t$ becomes $\\nu_t = {1} / {\\sum_{i=t}^{T}\\lambda_i}$. Observing that $\\lambda_t \\geq 0$, we have $\\nu_{t+1} \\geq \\nu_t$ for all $t \\in \\{1,\\ldots,T-1\\}\\backslash{\\mathcal{T}_0}$. Moreover, $\\forall t \\in \\{1,\\ldots,T-1\\}\\backslash{\\mathcal{T}_0}$, if the battery energy constraint (the first row of the constraints in ) is satisfied without equality, then $\\lambda_t = 0$, which implies $\\nu_{t+1} = \\nu_t$.\n\n[Theorem \\[thm:Nondecreasing Property of Water Levels\\]]{} tells that the optimal solution $p_t^*$ has the weighted-directional-water-filling structure, and $\\nu_t$ is exactly the water level in the $t$^th^ time slot. ",
"The water depth $d_t$ is $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Water Depths}\nd_t := \\frac {p_t^*} {T+1-t} = \\left(\\nu_t - \\delta_t\\right)^+,~t \\in \\mathcal{T}\\end{aligned}$$ where $\\delta_t = 1/[(T+1-t)g_t]$. Therefore, the weighted-directional-water-filling algorithm can be derived, which is illustrated in [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm\\]]{}.",
"\n\nIn [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm A\\]]{}, the white blocks at the bottom are the ground with levels $\\delta_t = 1/[(T+1-t)g_t]$, corresponding to the effect of the channel gain. ",
"The above dash lines complement the shape of the water tank, where the widths $(T+1-t)$ are decreasing linearly with $t$. The walls between any adjacent time slots are right permeable [@OzelO2011], which means the water can flow to the right if the water in the left slot has a higher level, but the water cannot flow back to the left in all cases. ",
"In [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm B\\]]{}, the shaded blocks are water, which is determined by $E_0$ as well as $H_t$ arriving in each time slot. ",
"In this particular example, the water depths in time slots $1$, $4$, and $5$ are $d'_1 = (E_0 + H_1)/T$, $d'_4 = H_4/T$ and $d'_5 = H_5/T$, respectively. ",
"Thus, the water levels in these three time slots can be calculated by $\\nu'_t = \\delta_t + d'_t$. On the other hand, the energy arrived is zero in time slots $2$, $3$, and $6$, and hence, no water exists in those time slots. ",
"In [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm C\\]]{}, the water is filled across time slots, and the final water volume for each time slot is exactly the power allocation. ",
"The new water level, after using the weighted-directional-water-filling algorithm, is $\\nu_t = \\delta_t + d_t$ for all $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$. In this example, time slots $1$, $2$ and $4$ share a same water level, since the original water level $\\nu'_1$ in slot $1$ is higher than $\\nu'_2$ and $\\nu'_4$, so is the water level in time slots $5$ and $6$. However, there is no water pouring from time slot $5$ to $4$, even though $\\nu'_4 < \\nu'_5$, because the walls are right permeable. ",
"This completes the description of the weighted-directional-water-filling algorithm in this example.",
"\n\n\\[rek:Decreasing Tendency of Allocated Powers\\] From [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm\\]]{}, we observe that the weight $(T+1-t)$ is initially large and decreases as time goes by. ",
"As a result, the optimal solution of [Problem \\[prob:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem\\]]{} tends to allocate more transmit power in the earlier time slots, which implies the transmit power is more likely to decrease with $t$. Furthermore, if $H_t = 0$ for $t \\in \\{2,\\ldots,T\\}$ and $g_t \\equiv 1$ for $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, we can prove that the transmit power $p_t$ is linearly decreasing with $t$.\n\nAs mentioned in [Section \\[sec:Motivation and Related Work\\]]{}, the delay-minimization problem studied in this work was previously considered to be highly related to the completion-time-minimization problem, and the throughput-maximization problem. ",
"However, [Remark \\[rek:Decreasing Tendency of Allocated Powers\\]]{} tells a fact that the completion-time-minimization and throughput-maximization problems are inherently different from the delay-minimization problem. ",
"This is because the allocated transmit power in the solutions to the completion-time-minimization and throughput-maximization problems (if the battery storage is infinite and the channel is non-fading) are increasing with time $t$ (see [@YangJ2012TC] and Theorem 1 in [@OzelO2011]), while the optimal power allocation in the delay-minimization problem tends to decrease with $t$.\n\nSimulation Results {#sec:Simulation Examples}\n==================\n\nIn this section, firstly, we numerically illustrate that the optimal solution to the delay-minimization problem is fundamentally different from that to the completion-time-minimization and throughput-maximization problems. ",
"Note that the simulations contain more cases than that in [Section \\[sec:Discussions on the Structure of the Optimal Solution\\]]{}, e.g., not limited to the case that the transmitter has insufficient energy in the battery to clear the data queue. ",
"The Monte Carlo method is employed to investigate the behavior of the optimal solution to [Problem \\[prob:Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}, which can be efficiently solved by our results in [Section \\[sec:Solving the Average-Data-Queue-Minimization Problem\\]]{}. ",
"Secondly, we compare the packet delay between our delay-minimization algorithm and the throughput-maximization algorithm to stress the optimality of our algorithm.",
"\n\nTo focus on the decreasing or increasing property of the power allocation over time, we introduce a concept, named the inversion number. ",
"The inversion number for a sequence of power values $(p_t)_{t\\in\\mathcal{T}}$ is defined as $$\\begin{aligned}\n\\label{eqn:Inversion Number}\n\\mathrm{inv}((p_t)_{t\\in\\mathcal{T}}) := \\# \\left\\{\\left(p_{t_1}, p_{t_2}\\right): t_1 < t_2 \\wedge p_{t_1} > p_{t_2}\\right\\},\\end{aligned}$$ where $\\#$ returns the cardinality of a finite set, and $\\wedge$ means the logical “and”. ",
"It can be observed that: if a sequence is non-decreasing, then the inversion number is $0$; while, if a sequence is strictly decreasing, the inversion number is $T(T+1)/2$. Thus, the larger the inversion number is, the more likely a sequence $(p_t)_{t\\in\\mathcal{T}}$ is decreasing with $t$.\n\nThe simulation parameters are given as follows. ",
"The number of time slots is $T = 10$, i.e., the simulations are done within the time horizon $\\{1,\\ldots,10\\}$. The initial battery energy and the initial data queue length are $E_0 = 1$ and $Q_0 = 1$, respectively. ",
"We set the power gain of the channel as $g_t \\equiv 1$, with the rate function given by $\\log(1 + g_t p_t)$, in order to compare with the power allocation solution to the completion-time-minimization problem derived in [@YangJ2012TC]. ",
"The energy arrival process $H_t$ follows an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) ",
"uniform distribution, so does the data arrival process $D_t$. Additionally, the mean values $\\mathbb{E}[H_t]$ and $\\mathbb{E}[D_t]$ are set within $\\{0,0.5,\\ldots,5\\}$ and $\\{0,1,2\\}$, respectively (see [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Average Inversion Number of Powers\\]]{}). ",
"Each point in [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Average Inversion Number of Powers\\]]{} is obtained from averaging over $10,000$ simulation runs.",
"\n\n![",
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"data-label=\"fig:Average Inversion Number of Powers\"}](AverageInversionNumberofPowers.pdf){width=\"0.8\\columnwidth\"}\n\nFrom [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Average Inversion Number of Powers\\]]{}, we have the following observations: For a fixed $\\mathbb{E}[D_t]$, the average inversion number decreases with $\\mathbb{E}[H_t]$. More importantly, the case $\\mathbb{E}[H_t] = 0$ corresponds to a strictly decreasing sequence of power values, since the average inversion number is exactly $T(T+1)/2 = 45$. Note that, in this case ($\\mathbb{E}[H_t] = 0$ means $H_t \\equiv 0$), the decreasing property has been explained analytically in [Remark \\[rek:Decreasing Tendency of Allocated Powers\\]]{}. ",
"When $\\mathbb{E}[H_t]$ goes large enough, the average inversion number for a fixed $\\mathbb{E}[D_t]$ gradually converges to a constant. ",
"This is because, in every time slot, there is sufficient battery energy to clear the data queue with high probability, and hence, the sequence of power values is largely dependent on $D_t$, and independent of $H_t$. We can see that for $\\mathbb{E}[D_t] \\in \\{0, 1, 2\\}$, the average inversion numbers converge to $31.8$, $27.9$, and $24.7$, respectively, which are far from $0$. According to the results in [@YangJ2012TC] and [@OzelO2011], the sequences of power values of the completion-time-minimization and the throughput-maximization solutions are non-decreasing, hence their inversion numbers are $0$. This confirms that the optimal solution of the delay-minimization problem has a very different behavior from those of the completion-time-minimization and throughput-maximization problems.",
"\n\nUsing the same simulation parameters but with the channel power gain $g_t$ following i.i.d. ",
"Nakagami-$2$ fading, we compare our delay-minimization algorithm with the throughput-maximization algorithm (adopted from [@OzelO2011]). ",
"The results are shown in [Fig.",
" \\[fig:System Delays\\]]{}, and we can see that the delay-minimization algorithm performs much better, and the throughput-maximization algorithm does not give good delay performance. ",
"This result again confirms the fundamental difference between the delay-minimization and throughput-maximization problems.",
"\n\n![",
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"data-label=\"fig:System Delays\"}](DelayMinimizationvsThroughputMaximization.pdf){width=\"0.8\\columnwidth\"}\n\nConclusion {#sec:Conclusion}\n==========\n\nThe offline packet-delay-minimization problem for an energy harvesting transmitter has been investigated in a time-slotted system. ",
"We have proposed an effective transformation that converts the original non-convex problem into a convex problem, which then can be solved very efficiently. ",
"We have found that the optimal offline transmission policy of the packet-delay-minimization design is fundamentally different from those of the completion-time-minimization and throughput-maximization designs reported in the literature. ",
"The former one tends to decrease the allocated power as time increases, while the latter two allocate more power as time increases.",
"\n\n[^1]: For each $t \\in \\mathcal{T}$, $\\varphi_t$ is bijective and twice continuously differentiable, and the inverse $\\varphi_t^{-1}$ is also twice continuously differentiable.",
"\n\n[^2]: Since the objective of [Problem \\[prob:Transformed Problem\\]]{} is not *strictly* convex, we cannot ensure that it always has a unique global minimizer under any given $H_t$, $D_t$, $E_0$ and $Q_0$. However, since this problem is convex, we can still get at least one global minimizer using an efficient method, e.g., interior-point method.",
"\n\n[^3]: Note that the mathematical form of [Problem \\[prob:Weighted-Throughput-Maximization Problem\\]]{} is similar to (38a) and (38b) in [@TutuncuogluK2015], where the weights are preferences to broadcast channels. ",
"However, our solution has a more explanation (see [Fig.",
" \\[fig:Directional Water Filling Algorithm\\]]{}).",
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"November 21, 2018\n\nWhy would people in Central America endure the enormous risks and hardships of the migrant caravan’s journey north? ",
"Because of the economic and social devastation caused during the neoliberal — which the U.S. government is predominantly responsible for. ",
"In this article based on a speech given to an ISO meeting in Chicago, Natalia Segura explains why the roots of the migrant crisis go back decades.",
"\n\nI WANT to begin by naming the region I am writing about as America, I don’t mean the United States of America — I mean America, the continent.",
"\n\nFor us in Latin America, America is one continent, not a single country. ",
"As Eduardo Galeano writes in his book Open Veins of Latin America, “We even lost the right to call ourselves Americans.”",
"\n\nThe reason to talk about the continent of America, not the country of the United States of America, is that many people continue to live with the illusion that a simple change of elected leadership in a Latin American country can bring a fundamental change for the region. ",
"I would argue that this is not possible.",
"\n\nWhen we focus only on who is elected into power in one country or another in America, there can be a tendency to ignore the ruling class forces that hinder the possibilities for social change and the working class forces that fight for liberation.",
"\n\nSoldiers watch over leftists and labor organizers in Chile’s National Stadium in 1973\n\nWe have seen over the past decades that even when a populist leader — even one who holds many social justice and left-wing ideals that threaten the interests of the bourgeoisie — is elected in Latin America, forces like the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and international corporate interests quickly start to establish limits to what reforms are possible, and they force governments to embrace more neoliberal policies.",
"\n\nWhen governments don’t follow this “advice,” leaders can be pushed out — by any means necessary, as we saw in Honduras during the Obama years, for example.",
"\n\nHow Neoliberalism Began in Latin America\n\nIn order to understand the role of international capital in Latin America, we need to go back to the beginning of colonialism in America. ",
"After the Europeans arrived, conquered new territories and began the “discovery of America,” the resources of the colonies were managed in different ways.",
"\n\nTo take farming as an example, before the “conquest” of America, the people of each country cultivated all they needed to survive. ",
"Colonialism changed multicrop agriculture to the monoculture system we see today.",
"\n\nThe land of the new conquered territories was used to cultivate specific crops to satisfy the needs of the colonizers, not the people living there — and these crops were in turn exported to Europe and/or the United States at a low price. ",
"In addition, colonies became a place to extract raw materials.",
"\n\nThis is why Latin America didn’t develop a more self-sustaining multicrop system and balanced economies. ",
"Examples of the monocultural-extractive system include: Colombia and bananas/coffee, Cuba and sugar cane, Venezuela and petroleum, and Brazil and rubber trees/coffee.",
"\n\nMonoculture and mineral extraction in these underdeveloped countries are also used as a mechanism of dependency, because their economies are now managed by corporate interests based in the U.S. and/or European countries. ",
"For example, we learned how dependent Puerto Rico was on the U.S. after Hurricane María in 2018: most of the island’s food was imported.",
"\n\nThis means of exercising power over “conquered” territories was transformed from physical occupation in the colonies, termed colonialism, to economic control through the imposition of policies that we identify as neoliberalism. ",
"We see that the same purpose was carried out in a different way.",
"\n\nHow Neoliberalism Developed in South America\n\nOne way to illustrate how neoliberalism became dominant in Latin America is to look at what happened in Chile in the 1970s.",
"\n\nIn 1970, Salvador Allende became the democratically elected president of Chile. ",
"As president, he passed socialist economic reforms, but more importantly, his election represented an awakening of the people themselves, who were organizing from below for a socialist society.",
"\n\nOne example of this was the way that assemblies of workers were formed, based especially in factories, just like the soviets in Russia came together during the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. ",
"These councils — or “cordones” in Spanish — were making decisions about conditions of life and work across the country.",
"\n\nBut Allende and the people of Chile weren’t the only ones who were waking up. ",
"The U.S. awoke up to the threat that Chile’s revolutionary struggles could lead to a wave of governments in Latin America resisting neoliberal policies.",
"\n\nSo it launched Operation Condor. ",
"The U.S., with assistance from militaries from several Central and South American countries, including Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, plotted how to take power away from the people and keep it in the hands of the bourgeoisie.",
"\n\nIn 1973, with help of the CIA, Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup to overthrow Allende’s democratically elected government. ",
"Allende was killed, and Pinochet took power as the dictator of Chile. ",
"His reign lasted until 1990.",
"\n\nIn addition to the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, the “Chicago Boys” — a group of Chilean economists who were trained in neoliberal economic policies at the University of Chicago — returned to Latin America, where they took high positions in the government under Pinochet. ",
"The economic policies they promoted deepened the implementation of neoliberalism, which would gain a tighter grip across the region.",
"\n\nWhat Is Neoliberalism and How Is It Implemented?",
"\n\nThe underlying objective of neoliberalism is to create better conditions for capitalist accumulation, and in particular by having a minimalist state that places the free market above all other considerations.",
"\n\nNeoliberalism prioritizes the interests of financial capital. ",
"One of the methods used is to concentrate capital in the hands of very few capitalists by deregulating the economy and allowing the expansion of monopolies. ",
"A second feature of neoliberalism is austerity, which means a program of spending cuts, reductions of taxes or a combination of both.",
"\n\nDeregulation and austerity in the economy of a country opens the way for privatization of public enterprises and firms, and it increases the role of the private sector in both the economy and society. ",
"Examples of public services targeted for privatization include education; health care; water, gas, electricity, heating and other utilities; and public transportation.",
"\n\nThis year alone, in Argentina, Colombia and Puerto Rico, there have been mass protests against the privatization of universities and the lowering of state investment in higher education, as well as in schools.",
"\n\nNeoliberalism also leads to strict control over wages to drive them down.",
"\n\nIn the U.S. and Latin America, big companies and multinational corporations like McDonald’s lobby for a minimum wage to be kept as low as possible. ",
"Both multinationals and governments work together to make sure that profits rise and workers are paid as little as possible.",
"\n\nAnother component of neoliberalism is opening up the economy to foreign interests and a liberalization of the flow of commodities and foreign capital — but not labor — across borders.",
"\n\nWe can see clearly how this policy was applied in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María. ",
"The destruction from the storm served as the excuse for welcoming foreign investment to an even great extent. ",
"As a result of neoliberalism, the Puerto Rican economy is even further away from being managed by or for the people of Puerto Rico than ever. ",
"This has resulted in mass emigration from the country.",
"\n\nAs a result of neoliberalism, multinational corporations play an outsized, undemocratic role in governments and societies across Latin America.",
"\n\nFree trade agreements established under neoliberalism make it easier for multinational corporations to move across borders. ",
"Obviously, these agreements are not free. ",
"The big winners, as always under capitalism, are the multinational corporations — usually based in more powerful countries like the U.S. — while the price is paid by small farmers and workers of all countries, but especially the weaker ones.",
"\n\nBecause of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), U.S. businesses are able to sell goods cheaply, undermining local economies like Mexico’s. ",
"As a result of the agricultural agreements in NAFTA, massive numbers of small Mexican farmers went bankrupt.",
"\n\nMexico has been a self-sufficient corn producer for hundreds of years, but suddenly, corn growers were in competition with corn that was coming from the U.S. at a much lower price because the U.S. government subsidized it.",
"\n\nOne of the results of this “free trade” was a massive number of farmers losing their livelihood and being forced to leave their country in search of a better life. ",
"Many emigrated to the U.S.\n\nOf course, we didn’t hear much in the news about these Mexican farmers. ",
"The discussion of free trade has been one of politically divisive rhetoric and racism.",
"\n\nMisinformation published through the mass media is also a tool of neoliberalism. ",
"The U.S. media collaborated with politicians to spread the idea that poverty in Latin America is the result of things like overpopulation — and to then propose solutions like forced sterilization of poor women.",
"\n\nWe saw this carried out not too long ago in Puerto Rico, when women were convinced that sterilization would help them and their country advance economically — large numbers of women were sterilized as a result.",
"\n\nResistance to Neoliberalism\n\nSince the rise of neoliberalism in Latin America, many countries have elected officials on platforms to expand the public sector and support social issues. ",
"Unfortunately, these changes in government didn’t go far enough. ",
"Left-oriented presidents have been able to pass laws that improve the quality of life of working people, but the reforms are limited and don’t represent a complete revolution.",
"\n\nEvo Morales in Bolivia (2005 to today), Hugo Chávez (1999 to 2013) and Nicolás Maduro (2013 to today) in Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil (2003 to 2011) and Manuel Zelaya in Honduras (2006 to 2009) have all been associated with attempts to implement various reforms, including:\n\nFree education for all children\n\nSubsidies to small farmers\n\nReduction of bank interest rates\n\nAn increased minimum wages (in Honduras under Zelaya, it rose by 80 percent)\n\nSchool meals guaranteed for children from poor families\n\nDomestic employees integrated into the social security system\n\nDirect state assistance for families in extreme poverty\n\nFree electricity supplied to those in the most need\n\nNational control of natural resources\n\nAfter some years of these policies, poverty was reduced in each of these countries. ",
"In Honduras under Zelaya, poverty rates declined by almost 10 percent in the first two years of his government.",
"\n\nBut though these governments, often given the label the “pink tide,” tried to slow or stop many neoliberal policies, they still presided over economies based on capitalism — and particularly economies that remained dependent on exporting natural resources and cheap commodities.",
"\n\nThus, oil revenues were used to fund many reforms under Chávez in Venezuela, but when the price of oil plummeted on the international market, many of these reforms could not be sustained.",
"\n\nOne lesson from these left movements in Latin America is that no one can make a revolution on their own in isolation from the larger world economy. ",
"People need to join forces across borders, and the revolution must also be international.",
"\n\nConsequences of Neoliberalism\n\nUnfortunately, as we know, the pink tide has not been enough to defeat neoliberalism in Latin America. ",
"As a consequence, people all over Latin America have seen their countries plunged into poverty, and they are desperate for better living conditions. ",
"This is leading to a mass migration of refugees fleeing north in the search for something better.",
"\n\nThis, along with fears about violence and political repression, is what’s behind the decision of the people from Honduras to flee with the caravan, journeying toward the U.S.\n\nA pattern has developed over the last several decades that continues to play out in Latin America:\n\nFirst, people get tired of the economic and social violence they are subjected to as a result of imperialism and neoliberalism.",
"\n\nSecond, a popular candidate with left ideas appeals to the masses, gets elected to power and attempts to satisfy people’s needs through a series of reforms.",
"\n\nThird, the new leadership goes against institutions like the IMF and U.S. multinational corporations by making reforms that diminish inequality. ",
"But the leadership isn’t able to follow through with the social change that was promised as neoliberal institutions begin to push back and apply pressure to halt reforms.",
"\n\nFinally, if the leadership doesn’t reverse course and follow neoliberal policies, the head of state can be thrown out of power by a military coup supported by the U.S. government and multinationals, or even in some cases threatened with an outright imperialist invasion.",
"\n\nIn the end, for real change to take root and thrive in Latin America , a revolution from below, across many countries, is needed. ",
"Reforms to the neoliberal policies under capitalism or partial revolutions won’t be enough.",
"\n\nWhile we stand with those resisting neoliberalism and imperialism across Latin America today, we also want to help build the seeds of a revolutionary struggle at the same time."
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"\n\nThat changed shortly after Halloween, when a local pastor appeared during a City Council meeting to tell seemingly stunned officials that there have been sex parties going on, regularly, for quite some time at Virginia’s Coates Plaza Hotel, “in the heart of downtown Virginia.”",
"\n\nThe Rev. Terry Hartikka of the Cornerstone Family Church revealed that the past weekend the hotel held a “SpookTacular Sexy Halloween Party” at the hotel, which they had booked to full.",
"\n\n“Come join like-minded lovers as we party the night away,” read the Web page for the event, sponsored by a swingers club that has been around Minnesota about as long as Hanna has been editor and Hartikka has been a pastor. “",
"If you’re offended by nudity, and being aroused seeing a whole bunch of sexy, fun, sensually charged people, this is not the event to attend. ",
"If you meet a great person or persons take it to the next level, go back to your hotel room as often as [you] like by yourself or with new found friend or friends.”",
"\n\nYes, Virginia, there really is an orgy down the block.",
"\n\nHartikka said rumors of sex parties at the hotel had circulated, but no one ever talked about it publicly. “",
"Boy, lots of jaws were dropping open, it’s a bombshell,” he said in an interview.",
"\n\nThe conversation Hartikka started was an awkward one of carefully crafted sentences, red faces and a few giggles. ",
"Was a private sex party really anyone’s business? ",
"Could or should the city do anything to stop it? ",
"Why had no one mentioned the parties, which have been held 14 times over almost seven years, before?",
"\n\nOne official wondered if they could shut down the group’s website because it features scantily clad people. ",
"Nudity! ",
"On the Internet!",
"\n\nWhen veteran blues singer, author and native Ranger Paul Metsa saw the first story in the Daily News about the controversy, he quipped to me, “I guess this takes the Virgin out of Virginia.”",
"\n\nBut when the issue arose again at last week’s Streets and Alleys Committee meeting, Hartikka provided a tape recording of a phone call he had received from a domestic abuse advocate from Grand Rapids, who said a couple of women who had attended the parties told her they felt coerced by husbands or boyfriends to attend.",
"\n\nIn a letter to the editor of the Daily News that runs on Sunday, Melissa Scaia, executive director of Advocates for Family Peace wrote about two women who said they were in abusive relationships and were taken to the Virginia party. “",
"My experience at the sex parties in Virginia were the worst thing that ever happened to me in my abusive marriage,” one woman told Scaia, according to her letter. “",
"He made me participate in things at those parties I can’t even talk about.”",
"\n\n“There were some pretty strong accusations,” said Hanna. “",
"It jolted the council. ",
"There was a turn” from jocular to concerned.",
"\n\nHanna said initial response has been leaning toward leaving the hotel and its frequent guests alone because the region has a libertarian streak that believes government should leave consenting adults alone. ",
"The question some now have is whether everything there was consensual. ",
"Virginia’s police chief and city attorney both told the local paper that there have been no complaints.",
"\n\nThat doesn’t surprise Glen Williamson, who runs AttractionUSA, sponsor of the event, with his wife of 38 years. ",
"The business has run thousands of similar events over the past two decades and owns a nudist campground near Sandstone. ",
"The group has met in Virginia since 2010, bringing an estimated $50,000 or more to town per weekend.",
"\n\n“We have never had any issues,” said Williamson, 58, who called his customers “upstanding Minnesota citizens … doctors, lawyers and police officers. ",
"We’ve done thousands of events and never had a police call, never. ",
"If we have any issue with anyone, we ask them to leave.”",
"\n\nWilliamson said one reason they chose Virginia is because of the region’s reputation for tolerance. ",
"He questioned Hartikka’s unfounded belief that the parties would lead to secondary crimes in the area, such as assaults and rapes.",
"\n\n“That makes no sense, ”said Williamson, who said the pastor could probably find an incident or two at swingers parties if he tried hard enough, just like in real life. ",
"He likened blaming swingers gatherings for sexual assaults in society to blaming every church for child abuse by a few clergy.",
"\n\nWith a topic so inflammatory, both Hartikka and Williamson sound surprisingly reasoned and equally passionate about their beliefs.",
"\n\nWilliamson wants people to love one another, in whatever combination they prefer.",
"\n\nHartikka wants people to question whether this is something they want in Virginia. ",
"He doesn’t want people to turn against one another. ",
"He does want city officials to investigate whether there are any ordinances to restrict such parties.",
"\n\n“Let’s not get rabid,” he said.",
"\n\[email protected] 612-673-1702\n\nFollow Jon on Twitter: @jontevlin"
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"\n\nSafety recommendations for working with explosive gas mixtures: ▸ Calculate the potential explosive force to determine level of protection ▸ Compose detailed and thorough standard operating procedures ▸ Conduct specialized training on highly explosive materials ▸ Use well-designed, hazard-rated equipment (intrinsically safe as a minimum rating) ▸ Electrically ground and bond equipment ▸ Use blast barriers ▸ Use engineering controls for highly explosive materials ▸ Use work practice controls to limit access ▸ Conduct outside review of procedures, equipment, and engineering controls Source: UCCLS, “Report to the University of Hawaii at Manoa on the Hydrogen/Oxygen Explosion of March 16, 2016,” part 2\n\nGoing beyond the immediate cause of the explosion, however, “the overall underlying cause of the accident was failure to recognize and control the hazards of an explosive gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen,” the UCCLS report says.",
"\n\n“The message to other researchers is that they need to do a better job of educating themselves about the hazards of the materials they’re working with” and what could go wrong, says Craig A. Merlic, UCCLS executive director and a chemistry professor at UCLA. ",
"And campus safety personnel “need to have conversations with researchers and guide them to the resources that are available” to help conduct experiments safely, he adds.",
"\n\nSign up for C&EN's must-read weekly newsletter Email Address * Subscribe » Contact us to opt out anytime\n\nIn the case of the UH explosion, for example, the lab passed a safety inspection in January in part by properly storing H 2 and O 2 cylinders 6 meters apart. ",
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"When the tank exploded, it contained 55% H 2 , 38% O 2 , and 7% CO 2 at a pressure of 8 atm. ",
"UCCLS estimated the energy of the detonation to be equivalent to 70.5 g of TNT.",
"\n\nEkins-Coward was working for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute under researcher Jian Yu. ",
"The gas mixture was used to feed bacteria to produce biofuels and bioplastics. ",
"Yu’s lab is still closed, and he and the institute have not yet determined how experiments will be set up going forward, says institute director Richard E. Rocheleau.",
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"The labour market upswing is still intact. ",
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"Ansa Ikonen\n\nAili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen (19 December 1913 in Saint Petersburg – 23 May 1989 in Helsinki) was a Finnish film and theater actress. ",
"Ikonen was an intelligent comedian and a skillful character actress. ",
" In a film career spanning three decades, Ikonen appeared in dozens of films, and was one of the most popular actresses of her time. ",
"Ansa Ikonen and Tauno Palo became the golden couple of Finnish cinema.",
"\n\nLife and career \nIkonen was born to Finnish parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1913, but after the October Revolution her family moved to Finland. ",
"She studied to become a music teacher but never worked in that occupation. ",
"Instead she aimed for career in cinema. ",
"After some minor roles the famous director Valentin Vaala cast her as a leading lady in Kaikki rakastavat (Everybody loves somebody, 1935). ",
"Tauno Palo was the leading man. ",
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"Both films became successful, and Ansa Ikonen became a star. ",
"For years she was among the best known film actresses in Finland.",
"\n\nIkonen and Palo made altogether 12 films together, most of them comedies. ",
" Although not romantically linked in real life, the two nevertheless captured the audiences' imagination as the golden couple of Finnish cinema.",
"\n\nAt the same time with her film career, Ikonen was also hired in the Finnish national theatre. ",
"Her career there lasted for 44 years. ",
"She played in classical play by Finnish and foreign authors. ",
"She played in 16 Shakespeare plays, six plays by Molière and Nora in Ibsen's Doll's house.",
"\n\nIkonen was an intelligent comedian and a skillful character actress. ",
"Writers sometimes wrote roles specially for her. ",
"She did not have any formal education for theatre, but as a film star she quickly learned the tricks of the trade. ",
"In 1949 she got a stipendium and attended Old Vics Theatre school in London.",
"\n\nIkonen also directed a romantic comedy Nainen on valttia (Woman is the Wild Card) in 1944.",
"\n\nIkonen was married to actor Jalmari Rinne and had two daughters: Katriina Rinne and Marjatta Rinne. ",
"Because the husband was 20 years older than Ikonen, she often had a role of his daughter in the plays where they worked together.",
"\n\nFilmography (selection)\nMinä ja ministeri (1934)\nSyntipukki (The Scapegoat) (1935)\nKoskenlaskijan Morsian (1937)Kuriton Sukupolvi (1937)Rykmentin murheenkryyni (1938)SF-paraati (1940)Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu (1940)Oi, Kallis Suomenmaa (1940)Kulkurin Valssi (The Vagabond's Waltz) (1941)\nVaivaisukon Morsian (1944; Winner of the Jussi Award for Best Actress)\nNainen on Valttia (Woman is the Wild Card) (1944); also a directorSoot and Gold (1945)Pikajuna Pohjoiseen (1947)Gabriel, tule takaisin (Gabriel, Come Back) (1951)The Girl from Moon Bridge (1953)Rakas Lurjus (Dear Scoundrel)(1955)Ratkaisun Päivät (1956)Äidittömät (1958)Telefon (1977)\n\n Selected stage credits \nRoxane (Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac)\nCatherine (Muriel Spark: Doctors of Philosophy)\nLady Teazle (Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal)\nKatarina Thorwöst (Serp: Katarina, kaunis leski)\nIsabella (William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure)\nNora (Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House)\nKirsti Mara (Tuuli Reijonen: Ovi avautuu)\nBeatrice (William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing)\nMarja Myllymies (Ilmari Turja: Raha ja sana)\nHilde (Henrik Ibsen: The Master Builder)\nJulia (William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet)\nJuulia (Maria Jotuni: Tohvelisankarin rouva)\nPortia (William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice'')\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\nCategory:1913 births\nCategory:1989 deaths\nCategory:People from Saint Petersburg\nCategory:People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd\nCategory:Finnish actresses\nCategory:20th-century Finnish actresses"
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"For\n\nThe roof, interior build, looks, nice engine, customisation options\n\nAgainst\n\nRear visibility, pricier than competitors\n\nIn a world obsessed with the cult of retro, the Citroen DS3 stands out against the likes of the Fiat 500 and Mini. ",
"Its looks would make even Marty McFly do a double take, with a futuristic design that is as eye-catching as it is functional.",
"\n\nYou see the DS3, for all its gimmicks, is a quality car both inside and out. ",
"It is not without its foibles and quirks, but Citroen has a proper top-notch super-mini on its hands with the DS3. ",
"Now it comes in cabriolet form, ready to take on Fiat and Mini’s similar offerings.",
"\n\nDesign\n\nThe looks of the DS3 cabriolet might not be for everyone. ",
"They are certainly different from anything else that's out there. ",
"We absolutely love them, but can understand why others might prefer more straightforward offerings. ",
"Don’t forget either that the more unusual car designs tend not to age quite so well - take the Ford Ka, for example.",
"\n\nStill, from the outside, the DS3 has more design talking points than most. ",
"On the rear is a set of clever infinity mirror lights. ",
"A highlight on the vehicle, when lit up at night they look as if they travel the whole way through the car. ",
"Those lights have a tiny silver DS logo mounted on each and just above them, a chrome strip separates the roof from the boot.",
"\n\nIt is a car you can explore, noticing different bits and pieces every time you walk over to unlock it and hop in. ",
"Just a note on colour schemes, which are highly customisable with the DS3: the 155 DSport cabriolet model we tested came in purple and silver, which is okay for some. ",
"But we did spot a few yellow and black-and-white and black models at a recent Citroen press day. ",
"We suggest opting for those.",
"\n\nInside, the DS3’s outlandish approach to things continues, but never to the detriment of quality. ",
"It is a pricier car in cabriolet form than a lot of the Minis and Fiats, but build quality is a touch better. ",
"Compared to the Fiat 500, where there is lots of plastic to give away its price bracket, the DS3 hides most of that in places you wouldn’t normally spot.",
"\n\nWe like the colour-matched plastic strip that runs along the dash, as well as the easy to read speedometer and spots of leather on the doors, if you go for that option. ",
"The roof is nicely put together and all the controls have a satisfying weight to them that gives the impression of durability.",
"\n\nA special hat tip has to go the the DS3’s front-mounted LEDs which come as standard on both the cabrio and the conventional hatchback. ",
"They look like the gun Batman carries about in The Dark Knight Rises, which is definitely not a bad thing. ",
"In fact, spotting the DS3 zip past at night with those LEDs lit, it certainly catches your eye, even if it does have a purple roof.",
"\n\nDriving\n\nThe driving position on the DS3 Cabrio is pretty good. ",
"Seats are nicely supportive with plenty of room on the headrest and a decent amount of side bolstering, should you fancy giving the thing a throw about a B-road.",
"\n\nThe car has nice big mirrors, which is great because, when you have the roof the whole way down, rear visibility becomes zero. ",
"Parking sensors do come as standard, which should save you from the odd reversing mishap, but really it's just a lot easier to drive with the roof at three-quarters open.",
"\n\nWe found the brakes on the DSport model we tested particularly impressive. ",
"Given they aren’t Brembo branded or any of the other usual uprated systems you find on a hot hatch, they certainly stop the thing nicely.",
"\n\nSteering has a serious lack of feel to it, but not necessarily to the car's detriment. ",
"If you are opting for a range-topping DSport expecting it to drive like a hot hatch, it won't. ",
"This is a car geared to the city, with nice floaty suspension that will smooth out roads and a steering rack that makes slo- speed manoeuvres a doddle.",
"\n\nWe do feel slightly that the DS3 Cabrio’s gearbox and clutch could benefit from just a little more feel. ",
"They are fantastic to use in traffic, with a nice. ",
"long first gear so you aren’t shifting up and down all the time, but each gear needs more of a notch to it, just so you know you have it in the right one.",
"\n\nThe Engine\n\nInside the DS3 Cabrio we tested was a turbo-charged 155hp 1.6 litre petrol. ",
"There is a cheaper VTi 120hp petrol for £17,425 as well as a 82hp for £15,045. ",
"Of the three, the mid-ranger strikes us as the one to go for: £19,675 is a lot to pay for a three-door cabrio and while the engine has some fun to it, don’t expect hot hatch levels of performance, those are reserved for the DS3 Racing.",
"\n\nWhat we will say, is that the 1.6 litre petrol we tested absolutely loved to be revved. ",
"The engine had a nice bit of turbo kick to it around 3000rpm, which certainly makes it more fun when driving it hard. ",
"The problem is that the loose steering feel means you don’t quite have the feedback from the road to blast the car about safely.",
"\n\nEither way, the engine is definitely strong, makes a good exhaust note and ensures the car pulls plenty if you give it a bit of gas. ",
"Reliability has been an issue in the past with Citroen but so far no major problems have been recorded with the DS3. ",
"It seems to us like this little 1.6 is a bit of a corker.",
"\n\nThe Cabriolet\n\nAt around £2,600 more than the normal DS3, the cabriolet needs to add something special to the drive to justify the cost. ",
"For the most part, it does. ",
"None of the handling is gone and buffeting is kept to a bare minimum via a wind deflector. ",
"In fact, short of just opening the roof when you fancy it, the DS3 Cabrio behaves very much the same as the normal hatchback, which is a good thing.",
"\n\nIt also has one serious trick up its sleeve, in that you can close and open the roof to the car at up to 75mph. ",
"Should you hit a summer shower on the motorway, this could mean the difference between a soaked interior and a dry drive home. ",
"It works too - we tested it. ",
"No other cabriolet can come close to that sort of speed for opening and closing.",
"\n\nThe boot might be an issue for some, as it opens differently than the conventional DS3. ",
"The small aperture left for putting away your shopping could cause issues for some, but its a minor niggle and something we don’t expect would become a big issue during ownership.",
"\n\nCleverly, no space is lost because of the roof, so you still get 245 litres of space to play with. ",
"Plenty on a car of this size. ",
"So if you want a cabrio and don’t mind the added cost, the DS3 could be the right choice.",
"\n\nVerdict\n\nFor the money, the DS3 Cabrio in range-topping form is just a touch too expensive. ",
"Go for the mid ranger however and you have a really fun car on your hands. ",
"It definitely has things covered in the looks and quality department, while that 75mph closing roof is a real party trick.",
"\n\nThe handling and ride is also perfectly suited to city types, so if you fancy something to cruise about town with the top down this Summer, then this could be the car for you.",
"\n\nWhether it compares to the Mini or the Fiat comes down to choice. ",
"If you like the look of the 500, then save some cash and go for the 500C - it doesn't quite match the DS3 in build but certainly has the personality. ",
"As for the Mini, that is a much less-unrefined experience, with more direct handling but without the laidback approach of the DS3. ",
"In the end it comes down to what you want from your driving experience.",
"\n\nA second-hand convertible Cooper S will keep the boy racer happy, but then the refinement on long journeys might be an issue. ",
"Saving cash on the 500C could mean you can splash out elsewhere, or alternatively, if you fancy a decent cabriolet cruiser, which is easy to drive, the DS3 Cabriolet is for you."
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"There was a higher deposition of a-BSA in diabetic glomeruli compared to normal glomeruli 18 h after a-BSA injection at 4 and 8 weeks after STZ. ",
"Degradation of a-BSA was confirmed using isolated glomeruli. ",
"Diabetic glomeruli produced prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) more than normal glomeruli in the basal level at 8 weeks. ",
"a-BSA caused further increase of PGE(2) production in normal glomeruli, but not in diabetic glomeruli. ",
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"In diabetic glomeruli, niflimic acid reduced PGE(2) production in both the control group and a-BSA loading group. ",
"In normal glomeruli, a-BSA increased expressions of both COX-2 mRNA and protein. ",
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"Despite the growing attention being paid to biotechnology, a major unanswered question is who shall control the development and use of the powerful array of human genetic and reproductive innovations. ",
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"After briefly reviewing development in human genetics and reproduction and describing trends toward commercialization of them, this article discusses the dilemmas these trends raise for a democratic society. ",
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"DispersionAccountAdapter\"\nACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = \"username_email\"\nLOGIN_URL = \"/main/login\"\n\nSo, when I run the server and try to login, I am redirected to http://127.0.0.1:8000/{username}/all instead of http://127.0.0.1:8000/jorge/all (if that were my user name). ",
"I'm not sure what's wrong with my set up. ",
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":D\n\nA:\n\nYou are using 0.8.3 which does not support get_login_redirect_url yet -- support for this feature was added after 0.8.3.",
"\nSee: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/11ee262c9b9ec4923e8f3a34c71a05dad1dbccbb/ChangeLog#L1-L9\nIf you need this functionality I suggest you use the development version over at github.",
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"\nI'd prefer to explicitly define the required aliases as opposed to some traffic interceptor that affects the performance of all traffic. ",
" Being relatively new to Spring, I'm unsure what the best way is to proceed and my searches aren't leading me in the right direction.",
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"Water Salute - Touching Airport Tradition\n\nThe water salute is a touching airport tradition to honor military veterans, foreign dignitaries and new airline service. ",
"Salutes typically involve two firefighting rigs spraying arcs of water over an arriving or departing flight. ",
"It is a sign of respect, honour and gratitude. ",
"Each water cannon salute, which lasts about two minutes, can use as much as 3,000 gallons of water, so it does involve airport fire department resources.",
"\n\nA water salute consists on placing an even number of ARFF vehicles, namely crash tenders with powerful water cannons, on each side of a taxiway, pumping water to create a high arch. ",
"It can also be performed by three vehicles forming a triangle, with their water cannons’ stream meeting at the centre.",
"\n\nHere are the main reasons for giving a water salute:\n\nFor a new airline company operating out of the airport for the first time;\n\nFor a new airplane operating commercially for the first time;\n\nIf the Captain of the airplane or an ATC member is retiring;\n\nIf the airline is closing down the route and its the last flight of that airline from that particular airport.",
"\n\nNo one knows exactly when and where did water salutes in airports start. ",
"It is well known, though, that back to the days of the ocean liners it was common for fireboats and tugsto spray them with their water cannons when they were leaving or entering a port. ",
"So, water salute is not unique to airplanes alone and it is also given for ships as well. ",
"The idea must have come from there. ",
"Water salutes began being a common practice in the 1990s, when Salt Like City International Airport started saluting retiring Delta Air Lines pilots by creating a water arch beneath which the aircraft would pass.",
"\n\nHere is a video on how it looks from the inside of a cockpit of a Boeing 737 during a water salute.",
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"For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html\n\nThe Ohio River, running between Ohio and West Virginia, provides habitat for endangered mussels. ",
"For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html\n\nElk River, in West Virginia, provides habitat for the endangered species clubshell mussel. ",
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"Grief and Loss\n\nI’ve been thinking about grief and loss a lot lately. ",
"I’ve experienced a personal loss that hit me really hard, is still hitting me. ",
"And I’ve been watching the experiences of grief that are happening around Puerto Rico. ",
"It’s different to watch how people respond to grief from a distance.",
"\n\nPersonally\n\nFor the most part, people have been incredibly great to me. ",
"The appropriate amount of support, the kindnesses that work in the situation. ",
"There are a few who aren’t great and try to do weird things, but that’s kind of to be expected. ",
"It’s never perfect. ",
"I just hope for those with the most intimacy and power to be kind.",
"\n\nPower:\n\nI want my boss to be understanding when I need time off or if I seem a little out of sorts or not quite up to my normal level. (",
"And they have been absolutely.) ",
"I want the people I own things to (like responses, episodes, and the like) to be understanding if I don’t get things to them as quick as I’d like (or they would).",
"\n\nThose are the people in my life with the most power right now.",
"\n\nIntimacy:\n\nThis is sort of a two fold thing. ",
"The people who are close to me but not close to the person who passed, I fully expect them to be supportive of me. ",
"I think that’s a reasonable expectation. ",
"They are not experiencing the grief of that loss and they are more likely to have the capacity to be supportive. ",
"This for me includes relatives on the other side of the family and close friends.",
"\n\nBut this also means that I should be doing what I can to support those who are closer, doing what I can to offer those things up to those who are closer to that circle of grief. ",
"And certainly different people handle it differently. ",
"But in general I’m going to turn out and away from the people who are most impacted for my own comfort and support and I am going to try to turn in to offer comfort and support. ",
"Reach out to the people who need love, comfort, and assistance.",
"\n\nIt really helps to have these rules and know (and have thought through them) ahead of time and know who are the people who are usually there for me? ",
"Who can I ask for support from? ",
"Who will support me? ",
"Then on the other side…who will need support? ",
"And then there is an element of do I need to provide it to that person if I can’t. (",
"Sometimes I don’t have the capacity to handle that for some people and while I wish they had what they needed, I can’t be the person to do that.) ",
"Even beyond that making sure that I am doing the right things so that I am offering the kinds of support others need so when I need it they are willing to be there for me.",
"\n\nExtrapolate\n\nIt makes me sad when individuals can’t follow these fairly basic guidelines. ",
"And it makes me furious when the person with the most power won’t be as kind as my bosses. ",
"They weren’t extraordinary generous. ",
"But they were very simply kind. ",
"Why can’t the president be simply kind? ",
"And why the fuck aren’t we demanding simple human kindness of the goddamn president of the goddamn united fucking states.",
"\n\nFuck.",
"\n\nSo to all of you who have been personally impacted by this incredible hurricane season in Texas and Florida as you clean up and try to get back to your lives, and especially to Puerto Rico still in the middle of trying to get back to existing in a way where basic survival is possible…You have my deepest sympathy. ",
"My heart is with you. (",
"My calls to my senators are with you, the money I can is with you.) ",
"If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know.",
"\n\nTo those of you struggling like me through your own personal grief and loss of people you love, jobs you aren’t sure you can replace, homes you can’t, and more…ask for what you need. ",
"You can absolutely ask for help from those around you and if they are decent and they have the capacity they will. ",
"Never assume someone can’t help unless they tell you that they can’t.",
"\n\nTo all the rest. ",
"Please, do some work. ",
"Offer some support. ",
"Money, calls, reminding coworkers that yes Puerto Ricans are American and HELL YES they need help and they need it now and anything, anything less than the most generous, thoughtful, and kind support is not enough."
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"\n\nThe annual shindig is taking place Thursday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at 201 Bar (201 Massachusetts Ave. ",
"NE); $10 for society members, $15 for newcomers, with proceeds benefiting the Toys for Tots campaign.",
"\n\n“Come dressed in your best redneck/tacky sweater attire!” ",
"the GSS invitation commands. ",
"Per the online teaser, attendees (tragicomic attire or not) will be treated to hors d’oeuvres and an open bar pouring regionally inspired signature cocktails such as peach martinis for thirsty Georgians and Arnold Palmers for parched Carolinians.",
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"It’s always great to celebrate with fellow Georgians.”",
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"Licensing Changes to Windows Vista\n\nI'm here to tell you that virtually everything you've read online about the changes to Windows Vista's end-user license agreement (EULA) is wrong. ",
"Microsoft is further limiting your rights to transfer Windows to new PCs? ",
"Wrong. ",
"Microsoft is limiting your ability to upgrade your PC? ",
"Wrong. ",
"Microsoft is limiting the Vista versions you can install in virtual machines? ",
"Well, that one is partially correct. ",
"But there's a reason.",
"\n\nHere's what's really happening.",
"\n\nEvery version of Windows is accompanied by a EULA. ",
"This document is a contract that specifies your rights with regards to the copy of Windows you just obtained. ",
"The thing is, most people--over 90 percent--get Windows with a new PC, according to Microsoft. ",
"And their rights are substantially different from the rights of a customer who purchased Windows at retail. ",
"More specifically, versions of Windows that come with a new PC can't ever be transferred to another PC. ",
"They are, quite literally, bound to the PCs with which they were purchased. ",
"Retail copies of Windows... that's a bit different. ",
"But only a bit. ",
"We'll get to that.",
"\n\nWhat's happened is that Microsoft has clarified the EULA for Windows Vista. ",
"They've made it more readable, for starters, so normal people can get by the legalese and understand what the document really means. ",
"The Vista EULA is also clearer about certain things, including one of the supposedly controversial \"changes\" that the previously named online pundits are railing against. ",
"It also mentions virtualization licensing rights for the first time.",
"\n\nHere's what changed.",
"\n\nWindows transfer rights\n\nThere's a funny myth going around that says you have a right to transfer a single copy of Windows XP (or any previous Windows version) to as many computers as you like, as often as you like, and for any reason you like. ",
"This myth exists because the Windows XP EULA is vaguely worded. ",
"It states, \"You may move [Windows XP] to a different Workstation Computer. ",
"After the transfer, you must completely remove [Windows XP] from the former Workstation Computer.\" ",
"Pundits argue, incorrectly, that this EULA implicitly allows any user to continually move a single copy of Windows XP from machine to machine as often as they'd like. ",
"One online pundit decided this meant that \"there are no restrictions on the number of times you can transfer the software from one computer to another in your household or office.\" ",
"That person is, however, incorrect. ",
"As it turns out, the Windows license is pretty simple: Windows is tied to a single device (typically a PC), and not to a person.",
"\n\nAs a side note, I should add something since this argument is widely misunderstood. ",
"Would it be \"better\" if Windows were licensed to an individual? ",
"Sure, but that's not reality. ",
"The important thing to remember is that, with Vista, this device-based emphasis has not changed. ",
"Windows is, as always, not licensed to an individual. ",
"It's licensed to a device. ",
"One device.",
"\n\nThe Windows XP EULA appears to implicitly allow infinite transfers because it doesn't explicitly explain how many times one might transfer a single copy of XP. ",
"As it turns out, infinite transfers wasn't the intention. \"",
"This clause was always aimed at very specific circumstances,\" Microsoft general manager Shanen Boettcher told me. \"",
"Someone has a hardware failure, but still wants to run that copy of Windows on the new machine, for example.\"",
"\n\nThe problem, of course, was that some people felt they could install a single copy of Windows as many times as they wanted. \"",
"It's always been per copy, per device,\" Boettcher said.",
"\n\nWith Windows Vista, the EULA has been clarified. ",
"It now explicitly states that a user may \"reassign the [Windows Vista] license to another device one time.\" ",
"This, the pundits say, is a huge restriction that wasn't present in Windows XP. ",
"Many people incorrectly believe this to be the case.",
"\n\nWhat's more amazing is that the number of people who actually try to do this is incredibly small. ",
"Since you can't transfer a copy of Windows that comes with a new PC anyway, less than 10 percent of all Windows licenses are transferable at all. ",
"And of those, only a tiny percentage of users have ever tried to even transfer a Windows license once. ",
"The only people that really need to do this regularly are hardcore PC enthusiasts who change their machine configurations regularly. ",
"In short, this new restriction isn't all that new and it won't affect any mainstream users.",
"\n\nAnd if you do actually have a catastrophic PC failure, you'll be able to transfer your license just as before. ",
"The process, as it turns out, hasn't changed at all. \"",
"The escalation process is exactly the same in Vista,\" Boettcher told me. \"",
"You have to call support. ",
"It just wasn't clear in Windows XP. ",
"But we wanted to do the right thing by the customer. ",
"So we let them move a license, while being clear about what the license is intended for. ",
"In the past haven't been super clear up front.\"",
"\n\nAdding and removing PC components\n\nThis one dates back to the first horror stories about Product Activation (PA) and how users who made even modest hardware changes to their PCs would have to reactivate Windows on a regular basis. ",
"In worst-case scenarios, so the story went, users would be shut out of their PCs because Windows detected too many hardware changes.",
"\n\nHogwash. ",
"Fewer than 5 percent of PC users ever open a PC case let alone perform major hardware surgery. ",
"But if you're one of those guys who regularly upgrades your PC's hardware, you'll be happy to hear that instances of forced reactivation because of hardware upgrades are less frequent under Vista than they were under XP. ",
"More to the point, this is another one of those issues that only affects a tiny, tiny percentage of Windows users.",
"\n\nWhen Windows examines changes to the system, the two most heavily weighed components are the PC's motherboard and hard drive, in that order. ",
"If you change both of these components at one time, Windows will almost certainly assume it's running in a new computer and cause you to reactivate. \"",
"It's that old question, 'When does a boat become a new boat?,\" ",
"Boettcher asked, rhetorically. \"",
"When every plank has been replaced, is it a new boat?\" ",
"In the case of a Windows XP and Vista-based PC, there is an algorithm that examines hardware changes and, based on an internal score, determines whether a reactivation is required.",
"\n\nWhen that happens, Windows will attempt to reactivate electronically. ",
"If that fails, the user will need to call and reactivate manually. ",
"This is the same under Vista as it was under XP, though again the algorithm has been updated to be less strict.",
"\n\n\"This is a fairly rare thing,\" Boettcher said. \"",
"Edge cases can be accommodated through customer support, but it's a relatively small group: People who are building their own PCs; hard core enthusiasts.\" ",
"Long story short, you'll have to talk to a human being and explain what happened. ",
"Just as you have had to do with XP.",
"\n\nVirtualization licensing\n\nOne final area that's come under a lot of scrutiny--and, as it turns out, misguided interpretations--regards virtualization. ",
"With Windows Vista, Microsoft is finally addressing virtualization in the EULA. ",
"And it goes something like this:\n\nAny version of Windows Vista can host virtual machines (VMs), whether in Microsoft's Virtual PC solution or a rival product like VMWare Workstation. ",
"However, only two retail version of Windows Vista are licensed for use as a guest OS in a VM: Windows Vista Business and Ultimate. (",
"A third--non-retail--Vista version, Vista Enterprise, has different licensing terms, which I'll address in a bit.)",
"\n\nLet that one sink in for a second. ",
"You cannot install Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium in a virtual machine, at least from a legal standpoint. (",
"There is nothing technical preventing you from doing so, of course.) ",
"And on a related note, each retail copy of Vista you purchase is only licensable for one install. ",
"If you install a copy of Windows Vista in a virtual machine and then activate it, you cannot install the same copy of Vista on a physical machine and reactivate it (unless you take advantage of the transfer rights mentioned above, of course). ",
"One license equals one installation.",
"\n\nSo why \"restrict\" users like that? ",
"Well, as it turns out, there's no massive conspiracy. ",
"Currently, the majority of Microsoft's virtualization users fall into exactly two groups: business customers and enthusiasts. ",
"Business customers will want Vista Business and enthusiasts will use Vista Ultimate. ",
"Simple. ",
"And though pundits might like to complain about this apparently arbitrary decision, the reality is that very, very few people can ever come up with a legitimate reason to run, say, Vista Home Basic in a VM. ",
"And those that want to, can, if they don't mind violating the Vista EULA and not receiving support.",
"\n\nWindows Vista Enterprise is a special case. ",
"With that version of Vista, which will be made available only to volume license customers, users will be able to install a single licensed copy of Vista on one physical PC and up to four VMs, simultaneously. ",
"Those four VMs, however, must all be installed on the same Vista Enterprise-based PC, and they must be used by the same user. \"",
"If customers need multiple virtual machines they should use Vista Enterprise,\" Microsoft's Scott Woodgate told me. \"",
"The intention is to be generous and enable whatever scenarios are customers may need.\" ",
"Sounds like a customer benefit to me.",
"\n\nConclusions\n\nThere are so many opinions out there on the Internet. ",
"But opinions are a dime a dozen. ",
"Sometimes, when you want to know what's really going on, all you have to do is ask the source. ",
"That's what I've done here, and I hope this clears things up. ",
"As important, I hope you realize the issues raised about Vista's licensing won't be huge issues for the vast majority of Microsoft's customers. ",
"And anyone who says differently is just trying to be controversial. ",
"There's no need for that. ",
"These issues, as it turns out, are pretty clear-cut.",
"\n\nAll that said, I should address a few criticisms of this article that have appeared since it was first published. ",
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"\n\nI hope in this game you're the personal assistant to some big rap star, and you constantly get calls from him to go pick up meals, or meet him at a club or pick up a girlfriend for him, all while you're trying to play the main part of the game. ",
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"Fortunately it went away for the DLC packs, so maybe they've learned their lesson. ",
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"\n\nMy guess for what the money five means is that we'll be back in Las Venturas, but it really could be anything. ",
"Or anything American, I guess. ",
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"\n\nI always want to like the GTA games, but never do. ",
"I think it's just the theme of the game...I have no interest in being a criminal and was never into movies about gangs, criminals, mafia, etc. ",
"I do thank Rockstar, though, for helping to create a genre (open-world games like this), because I loved Read Dead Redemption and games that I adore like Batman Arkham City owe GTA a lot.",
"\n\nI just hope they focus the experience a bit more, take a \"less is more\" philosophy on this one. ",
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"I'd love to be able to sit in the coffee shop with my bud Julius, talking about walking the earth and bacon, only to find the place getting robbed after I return from the restroom.",
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"\n\nI doubt it will be before Christmas,but this was on CVG\n\nQuote\n\nIn June, sources allegedly close to the developer said the title is \"well under way\", with final touches like mini-games already being applied.",
"\n\nso hopefully it wont be that much longer than a year from now\n\nhowever,they also said this\n\nQuote\n\nRepeated rumours have suggested the game will be set in real world Los Angeles.",
"\n\nyeah,i don't want that...i always want a fictional world,and they just had an open world L.A. in L.A. Noire\n\nYou think the uproar has been bad before? ",
"If they try and put it in a fictionalized DC and have you rampaging through the monument district? ",
"You'd be asking for politicians to try and throw out the First Amendment and pass laws banning violent video games.",
"\n\nplus if it is indeed a 2012 release a DC setting would coincide nicely with the election.",
"\n\n[edit] has Rockstar ever released two major titles in the same year? ",
"Max Payne 3 is supposedly due out in the beginning of the year, and I remember last time they aimed for a fall GTA release it got pushed back to April of the next year.",
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"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
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"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
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"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
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"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to binews.org Site: binews.org\n\nDomain Authority: 38\n\nTrust Flow: 26\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to bigbangblog.net Site: bigbangblog.net\n\nDomain Authority: 46\n\nTrust Flow: 30\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to ibusinessangel.com Site: ibusinessangel.com\n\nDomain Authority: 28\n\nTrust Flow: 40\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to otranation.com Site: otranation.com\n\nDomain Authority: 40\n\nTrust Flow: 15\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to contentpond.com Site: contentpond.com\n\nDomain Authority: 28\n\nTrust Flow: 11\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to writeupcafe.com Site: writeupcafe.com\n\nDomain Authority: 40\n\nTrust Flow: 14\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to uberant.com Site: uberant.com\n\nDomain Authority: 48\n\nTrust Flow: 17\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to imfaceplate.com Site: imfaceplate.com\n\nDomain Authority: 54\n\nTrust Flow: 21\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to mytrendingstories.com Site: mytrendingstories.com\n\nDomain Authority: 43\n\nTrust Flow: 38\n\nLink Type: DoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to webs.com Site: webs.com\n\nDomain Authority: 90\n\nTrust Flow: 73\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to articlesfactory.com Site: articlesfactory.com\n\nDomain Authority: 52\n\nTrust Flow: 23\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to medium.com Site: medium.com\n\nDomain Authority: 96\n\nTrust Flow: 66\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nAny Special Instructions For Us close\n\nHigh Quality Article Writing + Guaranteed Acceptance to goodreads.com Site: goodreads.com\n\nDomain Authority: 93\n\nTrust Flow: 81\n\nLink Type: NoFollow\n\n\n\nCompletion Time: ~10 Days $48 Add To Cart close Please use the ~ symbol to separate multiple fields. ",
"For example, if you enter Item1 ~ Item2 ~ Item3, we will evenly rotate these items as we submit your site. ",
"Please note that, for the 'Title' field, we will only be able to use one item. ",
"You can enter multiple items into most of the other fields, though. ",
"Feel free to use up to 20 items per field. ",
"There will be a small fee for extra items to be rotated.",
"\n\n\n\nComplete the following information and proceed: Start Date *\n\nAnchor Text(s) (Up to two per order) *\n\n\n\nURL(s) to promote (Up to two per order) * http://www.wlmarketing.com/\n\n+ $2 - Fill out these extra fields for me\n\n\n\nYour Name (or a Pen Name) *\n\n\n\nCategory *\n\n\n\nTitle(s) of the Article The Importance of SEO for Online Businesses\n\n\n\nRelated Tags\n\n\n\nAbout The Author (Include Your Link With Anchor Text Here) WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
"\n\n\n\nSummary WL Marketing provides well researched, uniquely written articles with their professional <a href=\"http://www.wlmarketing.com/article-submission-service.html\">article writing and article submission services</a> to SEO consultants and businesses world-wide.",
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"\n\nOrigins and opening\nTo assist with maintenance of the site, a greyhound track was built around the rugby pitch in 1927. ",
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"The kennel facilities were at nearby Cefn Mably in St Mellons and the leading event was the Glamorgan Cup held over 500 yards.",
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"His Waterhall kennels based trainer John Hegarty would later become a Racing Manager at the track.",
"\n\nIn 1937 the Greyhound Racing Association closed the nearby White City stadium, leaving the Arms Park as the sole Cardiff venue. ",
"John Jolliffe was Racing Manager here in 1937 arriving from Aberdeen before he secured the Racing Manager's position at Wembley.",
"\n\nPost war history\nAfter the war the Welsh Greyhound Derby was transferred to the Arms Park from White City. ",
"This was one of the three competitions that formed the triple crown along with the English Greyhound Derby and Scottish Greyhound Derby. ",
"The track continued to host the race annually. ",
"Racing was held on Monday and Saturday evenings.",
"\n\nThe greyhound company introduced floodlights in 1958 which upset the rugby fans. ",
"The Welsh Derby was won by the likes of Trev's Perfection (who completed the Triple Crown in 1947), Local Interprize, Ballycurreen Garrett, Ballylanigan Tanist, Endless Gossip, Rushton Mac and Mile Bush Pride in a golden era. ",
"The event was so popular that despite the stadium being taken over for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games the track was re-laid in time for the Welsh Derby to take place in October. ",
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"\n\nProblems for greyhound racing started after Glamorgan County Cricket Club moved out of the cricket ground (known as the north ground) to Sophia Gardens in 1966. ",
"The north ground was subsequently demolished and a new rugby union stadium built in its place for Cardiff RFC, who would move out of the Arms Park because Cardiff Athletic Club had transferred the freehold of the Arms Park (south ground) to the Welsh Rugby Union in July 1968. ",
"This still left a greyhound track around the Arms Park but despite the Welsh Derby gaining classic status there was no place for greyhound racing when the plans for the new National Stadium were drawn up on the site in 1977 by the Cardiff City Council. ",
"The Council had taken less than ten minutes to reject a plan to switch greyhound racing to nearby Maindy Stadium.",
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"After the closure, greyhound racing in Wales remained on only three flapping (unlicensed) tracks, Swansea, Bedwellty Greyhound Track and Ystrad Mynach.",
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" \n# DON'T MISS THESE OTHER ELECTRIFYING _SEAL TEAM SEVEN_ MISSIONS:\n\n### SEAL TEAM SEVEN\n\nThe SEALs are in a bulkhead-to-bulkhead battle against high-tech buccaneers with enough nuke fuel to arm a superpower...\n\n### SPECTER\n\nWhen Greek extremists kidnap a U.S. congressional delegation, Murdock and his platoon must spearhead a daring rescue mission...\n\n### NUCFLASH\n\nIn the New World Order, Murdock and his team must stop a group of renegades before they attempt to pull off a nuclear nightmare...\n\n### DIRECT ACTION\n\nWhen officials link counterfeit currency to an economic terrorism plot against the U.S., there's only one solution—infiltrate and terminate...\n\n### FIRESTORM\n\nThe SEALs get a hold of top secret plans of the Chinese invasion of Taiwan. ",
"They'll have to prevent the attack... or get ready to fight the next world war...\n\n### BATTLEGROUND\n\nWhen an Army Colonel attacks the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and declares himself dictator, the SEALs are sent in to restore justice...\n_By Keith Douglass_\n\n**THE CARRIER SERIES:**\n\nCARRIER \nVIPER STRIKE \nARMAGEDDON MODE \nFLAME-OUT \nMAELSTROM \nCOUNTDOWN \nAFTERBURN \nALPHA STRIKE \nARCTIC FIRE \nARSENAL\n\n**THE SEAL TEAM SEVEN SERIES:**\n\nSEAL TEAM SEVEN \nSPECTER \nNUCFLASH \nDIRECT ACTION \nFIRESTORM \nBATTLEGROUND \nDEATHRACE\n\n# SEAL TEAMSEVEN \nDEATHRACE\n\n## KEITH DOUGLASS\n\nIf you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. ",
"It was reported as \"unsold and destroyed\" to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this \"stripped book.\"",
"\n\nSpecial thanks and acknowledgment to Chet Cunningham for his contribution to this book.",
"\n\nSEAL TEAM SEVEN: DEATHRACE\n\nA Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author\n\nPRINTING HISTORY \nBerkley edition / February 1999\n\nAll rights reserved. ",
" \nCopyright © 1999 by The Berkley Publishing Group. ",
"SEAL TEAM SEVEN logo illustration by Michael Racz. ",
" \nThis book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. ",
" \nFor information address: The Berkley Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014.",
"\n\nThe Penguin Putnam Inc. World Wide Web site address is <http://www.penguinputnam.com>\n\nEISBN: 9781101560105\n\nBERKLEY®\n\nBerkley Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. ",
"BERKLEY and the \"B\" design are trademarks belonging to Berkley Publishing Corporation.",
"\n\nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1\nTo my longtime friend and editor, Tom Colgan, who keeps the wheels turning and the books rolling. ",
" \nTo the writers bunch—Cyndy, Mark, Ken, Lee, Peggy, and Rosie—who have given beneficial criticism, comments, and aid in researching. ",
" \nIt would have been a lot harder to write this book without the help of all of you.",
"\n_Foreword_\n\nSEAL stands for SEa-Air-Land. ",
"This specialized group of fighting men was created by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1962 to meet special quick-strike needs of the U.S. Navy. ",
"Today the Navy SEALs are among the leaders of the elite special-operation forces in the world.",
"\n\nSEALs undergo a six-month training course that is enough to break the back and the will of all but the most dedicated, and the strongest. ",
"On average, 60 percent of those who start the SEAL training course drop out.",
"\n\nDuring the Vietnam War there were only two SEAL teams, One and Two. ",
"Each was composed of a number of fourteen-man platoons. ",
"Today SEALs function with sixteen-man platoons.",
"\n\nAs modern warfare changed, in the eighties, the Navy realized that it had to meet the challenge. ",
"Through the Ronald Reagan administration, the Navy lobbied for more SEAL teams, pointing out the greater emphasis on \"small wars\" and covert operations.",
"\n\nBy 1990 there were seven SEAL teams. ",
"Teams One, Three, and Five were headquartered in Coronado, California, under the direction of the Naval Special Warfare Group One. ",
"The plan was to use these units for emergency actions in the Pacific and Far East.",
"\n\nTeams Two, Four, and Six were assigned to Little Creek, Virginia, under the command of NAVSPECWARGRU-TWO. ",
"They would be deployed in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.",
"\n\nThe Navy's special warfare groups are highly security conscious. ",
"They give out no press releases on SEAL actions. ",
"Most of the SEAL work is never known to the U.S. public, let alone other nations. ",
"They work quietly, often deadly, to achieve the purpose of intense national security that has been handed them.",
"\n\nAt my latest report, there is no SEAL Team Seven in real life. ",
"That makes this series of books more interesting and exciting, since all manner of actions, problems, crises, coups, takeovers, terrorists, and \"small wars\" can be dealt with by a realistic prototype of an actual SEAL unit.",
"\n\nAfter the book _Seal Team Seven: Specter_ , Team Seven's Third Platoon was assigned for full-time use by the Central Intelligence Agency. ",
"They selected the best, highest rated team, and the team with the best in-action record for this task. ",
"Now SEAL Team Seven, Platoon Three, is at the top secret whispered call of Don Stroh, its CIA control.",
"\n\nIf you have any questions about the SEALs or comments on the books, please drop me a line at: Keith Douglass, 8431 Beaver Lake Drive, San Diego, CA 92119. ",
"Hope to hear from you.",
"\n\nKeith Douglass, \nDecember 1998\n\n### **S EAL TEAM SEVEN**\n\nTHIRD PLATOON* \nCORONADO, CALIFORNIA\n\n**Lieutenant Blake Murdock.** ",
"Platoon Leader.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K MP-5SD submachine gun.",
"\n\nFIRST SQUAD\n\n**David \"Jaybird\" Sterling.** ",
"Platoon Chief. ",
"Machinist Mate Second Class.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K MP-5SD submachine gun.",
"\n\n**Ron Holt.** ",
"Radioman First Class. ",
"Platoon radio operator.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K MP-5SD submachine gun.",
"\n\n**Martin \"Magic\" Brown.** ",
"Quartermaster's Mate First Class. ",
"Squad sniper.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K PSG1 7.62 NATO sniper rifle or McMillan M-87R .50-caliber sniper rifle.",
"\n\n**Joe \"Ricochet\" Lampedusa.** ",
"Operations Specialist Third Class. ",
"Platoon scout.",
"\n\nWEAPON: Colt M-4A1 with grenade launcher.",
"\n\n**Kenneth Ching.** ",
"Quartermaster's Mate First Class. ",
"Platoon translator. ",
"Speaks Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish.",
"\n\nWEAPON: Colt M-4A1 with grenade launcher.",
"\n\n**Harry \"Horse\" Ronson.** ",
"Electrician's Mate Second Class.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K 21A1 7.62 NATO-round machine gun.",
"\n\n**James \"Doc\" Ellsworth.** ",
"Hospital Corpsman Second Class. ",
"Platoon corpsman.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K MP-5SD or no-stock, 5-round Mossburg pump shotgun.",
"\n\nSECOND SQUAD\n\n**Lieutenant (j.g.) ",
"Ed DeWitt.** ",
"Leader Second Squad. ",
"Second in Command of the platoon.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K G-11 automatic rifle.",
"\n\n**Al Adams.** ",
"Gunner's Mate Third Class.",
"\n\nWEAPON: Colt M-4A1 with grenade launcher.",
"\n\n**Miguel Fernandez.** ",
"Gunner's Mate First Class. ",
"Speaks Spanish and Portuguese. ",
"Squad sniper.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K PSG1 7.62 NATO sniper rifle.",
"\n\n**Colt \"Guns\" Franklin.** ",
"Yeoman Second Class. ",
"Speaks Farsi and Arabic.",
"\n\nWEAPON: Colt M-4A1 with grenade launcher.",
"\n\n**Les Quinley.** ",
"Torpedoman's Mate Third Class. ",
"Explosive specialist.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K G-11 caseless rounds, 4.7mm automatic rifle.",
"\n\n**Rodolfo \"RG\" Gonzalez.** ",
"Damage Controlman First Class. ",
"Speaks Spanish, Italian, and Russian.",
"\n\nWEAPON: Colt M-4A1 with grenade launcher.",
"\n\n**Joe Douglas.** ",
"Quartermaster First Class. ",
"Machine gunner. ",
"Second radio operator.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K 21A1 7.62 NATO-round machine gun.",
"\n\n**Fred Washington.** ",
"Aviation Technician Second Class.",
"\n\nWEAPON: H&K MP-5SD submachine gun.",
"\n\n*Third Platoon assigned exclusively to the Central Intelligence Agency to perform any needed tasks on a covert basis anywhere in the world. ",
"A top secret classified assignment.",
"\n\n# Table of Contents\n\nForeword\n\n1 Friday, October 21\n\n2 Friday, October 21\n\n3 Friday, October 21\n\n4 Friday, October 21\n\n5 Friday, October 21\n\n6 Saturday, October 22\n\n7 Friday, October 22\n\n8 Saturday, October 22\n\n9 Saturday, October 22\n\n10 Sunday, October 23\n\n11 Monday, October 24\n\n12 Tuesday, October 25\n\n13 Tuesday, October 25\n\n14 Wednesday, October 26\n\n15 Thursday, October 27\n\n16 Fryday, October 28\n\n17 Fryday, October 28\n\n18 Sunday, October 30\n\n19 Sunday, October 30\n\n20 Monday, October 30\n\n21 Monday, October 31\n\n22 Tuesday, November 1\n\n23 Wednesday, November 2\n\n24 Wednesday, November 2\n\n25 Wednesday, November 2\n\n26 Wednesday, November 2\n\n27 Wednesday, November 3\n\n28 Thursday, November 3\n\n29 Friday, November 4\n\n30 Friday, November 4\n\n31 Friday, November 4\n\n32 Friday, November 4\n\n33 Friday, November 4\n_1_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 1040 hours \nChocolate Mountain Gunnery Range \nNiland, California\n\nLieutenant Blake Murdock rubbed the stinging sand out of his eyes, and watched the target ahead. ",
"Nothing moved. ",
"Good. ",
"He glanced to his right and saw the first two men in his Third Platoon flat on their bellies in the hot rocks and dirt.",
"\n\nTheir weapons were up and ready.",
"\n\nThey both wore full combat gear.",
"\n\nTheir faces were daubed with black and brown paint.",
"\n\nTheir desert cammies showed the grime of a long crawl two hundred yards up to this vantage point.",
"\n\nMurdock nodded sharply at the first two men.",
"\n\nDavid \"Jaybird\" Sterling, Machinist Mate Second Class, and platoon chief, surged off the ground into a crouching run and charged the squat building directly in front, twenty yards away. ",
"He held his H&K MP-5SD submachine gun ready, his finger on the trigger set for three round bursts.",
"\n\nRight behind him, Ron Holt, Radioman First Class and the platoon's communications man, jolted to his feet and charged the low building. ",
"He carried a Remington 870 shotgun with no stock, a pistol grip, and virtually no barrel. ",
"The pump-action weapon carried five 12-gauge rounds.",
"\n\nSterling hit the door first, kicked it open, and darted inside. ",
"Ron Holt went in right behind him.",
"\n\nFrom long practice, Sterling took the right-hand side of the room. ",
"Two terrorists stood over a woman tied to a chair. ",
"Sterling put three-round bursts into each of the terrs, and looked for more.",
"\n\nAs he did, Holt dove through the door covering the left-hand side of the room. ",
"One terr held a knife, and was about to move toward a captive tied to a table.",
"\n\nOne round from the shotgun cut the terr in half.",
"\n\nThe sound of the shots in the small room were like 155 howitzers going off in a cave. ",
"Both men wore earplugs, but still the sound rattled around in their heads.",
"\n\n\"Clear right,\" Sterling said into his Motorola MX-300 personal communication radio. ",
"To his left, Holt heard the words through a small speaker in his left ear.",
"\n\n\"Clear left,\" Holt said. ",
"They looked at each other through the dimness of the room, then charged through the door eight feet away, into the second room.",
"\n\nThis time Holt went first. ",
"He scanned the inside of the room but found no terrorists.",
"\n\nSterling came right behind him, his submachine gun searching for any terrs in his zone. ",
"Suddenly one popped up from behind a table. ",
"Sterling riddled him with three rounds, and kept scanning.",
"\n\nHolt checked his section again, and saw a form with a weapon leap up from behind a couch. ",
"Holt had pumped a new round into his shotgun as soon as he shot the first time. ",
"Now he jerked the Remington around and triggered off a round. ",
"The terr was blasted against the back of the room and dropped to the floor.",
"\n\n\"Clear left,\" Holt said.",
"\n\n\"Clear right,\" Sterling said. ",
"They nodded, and ran hard through the last door in the room, and out into the sunshine. ",
"They trotted fifty yards to the left and bellied down in a shallow irrigation ditch near the rest of the platoon.",
"\n\nBack in front of the low building, Lieutenant Murdock looked to his left. ",
"He pointed to the first two men in line there, and they both scrambled to their feet and charged the structure.",
"\n\nMartin \"Magic\" Brown, a black man carrying one of the new H&K G11 automatic rifles, hit the door first. ",
"He had put aside his usual sniper rifle to try out the new weapon, which had rounds without casings. ",
"He kicked open the door and charged inside, taking the right-hand section. ",
"Two terrs showed themselves and he fired, pouring twelve rounds into the two of them before he got his finger off the trigger.",
"\n\n\"Holy shit,\" Magic growled. \"",
"Clear right.\"",
"\n\nBehind him Joe \"Ricochet\" Lampedusa, the platoon lead scout, had hosed down one terr with a three-round burst from his Colt M-4A1 carbine.",
"\n\n\"Clear left,\" Joe said. \"",
"Sure you got him?\"",
"\n\nMagic grinned in the room's dimness, and waved them forward.",
"\n\nThey charged into the next room where the G-11 blasted again, this time set on three-round bursts.",
"\n\nOut in front of the Kill House, Lieutenant Murdock made a double check. ",
"He pointed at Kenneth Ching and Harry \"Horse\" Ronson, sending them into the small building, where they practiced room clearing with surprise dummy targets—some stationary, some jolting upward from behind furniture.",
"\n\nMurdock watched the two burst into the Kill House, then turned, hearing a new sound in the desert land not far from the small town of Niland, California, in the near edge of the Navy's Chocolate Mountain Gunnery Range.",
"\n\nThe foreign sound turned out to be a new Buick easing up to the twenty-four-man bus with Navy markings. ",
"The rig had been home, and chow hall, for the Third Platoon of the U.S. Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Seven, now in the third and last day of a training session to sharpen their weapons skills.",
"\n\nMurdock had three new men in the platoon since the last walk in the park down in Kenya, and he wanted all the live firing time he could wring out to be sure the new men blended in, meshed, with the thirteen other men in his command.",
"\n\nHe watched the car come to a stop. ",
"A familiar figure stepped out and waved.",
"\n\nBig news coming, Murdock knew. ",
"He wasn't sure if it would be good news, or bad, or something in between. ",
"Whenever the platoon's contact with the CIA showed up, there was a damn good reason.",
"\n\nMurdock waited until the last two men had stormed through the Kill House. ",
"He didn't do a critique. ",
"The men knew what they had done right and what wrong, and how to correct the mistakes. ",
"They would learn from them.",
"\n\nHe stood, but didn't bother brushing the desert dirt off his cammies. ",
"He cradled the H&K G11, and waited for Don Stroh to come to him. ",
"The CIA man had flown over three thousand miles to get there; another hundred yards wouldn't hurt him.",
"\n\nStroh was their boss, the next step up in a new chain of command, their pipeline to the CIA. ",
"A year ago the Third Platoon of SEAL Team Seven had been placed under the direct control, and command, of the Central Intelligence Agency, with Stroh as their contact. ",
"Since then Third Platoon had undertaken some ultra-secret, clandestine operations, usually on the direct orders of the President.",
"\n\nAnytime Stroh showed up, something was afoot.",
"\n\nTwo months ago, in a phone call to Murdock in Washington, D.C., Stroh had indicated something big was brewing, but it wasn't quite time to move on it. ",
"Now must be the time.",
"\n\nMurdock held out his hand as Stroh walked up. ",
"He'd left his suit coat in the car, stripped off his tie, and was unbuttoning his shirt.",
"\n\nIn October the California desert could still throw up a heat wave. ",
"Some said September and October were the hottest months in Southern California. ",
"The desert went along with the plan.",
"\n\nStroh grinned. \"",
"Nice little frying pan you have here.\"",
"\n\n\"Not bad today. ",
"You shoulda been here yesterday.\"",
"\n\n\"Come back to my office. ",
"We need to talk.\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked over to where Lieutenant (j.g.) ",
"Ed DeWitt stood in front of the platoon. ",
"He gave two curt hand signals. ",
"DeWitt signaled back and got the men up to take the planned five-mile hike at double time.",
"\n\n\"Your office?\" ",
"Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"The car. ",
"It's got air-conditioning.\"",
"\n\nFive minutes later, they sipped ice-cold Cokes from Stroh's cooler. ",
"He never forgot the Navy's strict code about no alcohol on base.",
"\n\n\"It's about ready to go down. ",
"Two months ago I told you something was brewing. ",
"We've got word from some of our people that the pace has quickened and it's time for us to move.\"",
"\n\n\"Stroh, you sound like you're running for office. ",
"How about some specifics, some facts.\"",
"\n\n\"In the near east, one of our not-so-friendly nations is about ready to build one or more nuclear devices. ",
"We don't want them to do that. ",
"You and your platoon are going to stop them.\"",
"\n\n\"You make it sound simple. ",
"When and where?\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock, you're hard to figure. ",
"I thought you'd yell or groan. ",
"You've never been up against anything like this before.\"",
"\n\n\"What about the North Atlantic and that oil drilling platform? ",
"We had a nuke there. ",
"The Arabs were bound to get a nuke put together sooner or later. ",
"We've been talking about it. ",
"Hell, what else in the world can go south? ",
"Now some specifics.\"",
"\n\n\"First breakfast. ",
"We're going back to the huge town of Niland. ",
"They have one air-conditioned cafe I saw, and I haven't had breakfast. ",
"I'm ugly before I get my coffee and flapjacks.\"",
"\n\n\"I've got more training operations this morning.\"",
"\n\n\"I saw you tell Ed to continue the program. ",
"They'll be just fine. ",
"You can wash your hands and comb your hair in town.\"",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later, they were served breakfast. ",
"Murdock had a cup of coffee.",
"\n\nStroh started talking as soon as he finished eating.",
"\n\nThey were in a corner booth with no one else around them. ",
"The cafe was deserted except for one woman in the end booth.",
"\n\n\"So, it's a nuclear problem in an Arab country, Iran to be exact. ",
"We have a simple job. ",
"To insert your platoon into the country, find the nuclear device assembly complex, destroy it and all of the nuclear components. ",
"Then you have to deal with the plutonium without causing a five-hundred-mile death zone across Iran.\"",
"\n\n\"Did you say 'find the assembly complex'? ",
"You don't know where it is?\"",
"\n\n\"We've got two good men on it right now in Tehran. ",
"As soon as they tie it down, we move you and your men.\"",
"\n\n\"Good to know where we're going. ",
"But you realize my platoon hasn't been cleared for combat duty yet. ",
"I had five men shot up in that Kenya picnic, and I have three new men I'm integrating into the team.\"",
"\n\n\"You've had two months. ",
"I thought your guys were fast learners.\"",
"\n\n\"They are, Stroh. ",
"But when you're staking your life on the guy behind you, you want to be fucking certain he knows the ropes, and the routines, and what to do and when to do it.\"",
"\n\n\"Granted. ",
"The President says he wants you ready to fly out of North Island in a week.\"",
"\n\n\"We can't do it. ",
"Some of my men are still hurting. ",
"We still need the platoon exercises to get everyone integrated. ",
"We're probably two weeks away from being ready for duty.\"",
"\n\n\"Not a chance, Cowboy. ",
"When the President says a week...\"\n\nMurdock grunted. \"",
"You've got something else to spring on me. ",
"I can see it in those little blue eyes of yours. ",
"What is it?\"",
"\n\n\"How are you at dismantling nuclear warheads and stand-alone nuclear bombs?\"",
"\n\n\"Piss-poor, to coin a phrase. ",
"My best idea is to drop them down a mile-deep oil well and let them rot away for the thirty-five thousand years of plutonium's half-life.\"",
"\n\n\"So you know something about plutonium.\"",
"\n\n\"Enough to stay as far away from it as possible.\"",
"\n\n\"So how are you going to dismantle those half-made nukes and dispose of the plutonium?\"",
"\n\n\"Have to study up on that. ",
"I still like the drop-the-plutonium-down-a-well idea.\"",
"\n\n\"Fact is, Murdock, not even you and your crew can handle those nukes. ",
"We'd like to take in a NEST team. ",
"That's Nuclear Emergency Security Team. ",
"Let them handle the hot stuff. ",
"But we can't do that. ",
"DOD has no one who has a military background who can go in and do the dismantling. ",
"So, we're calling on a civilian expert who will go in with you, and do the dirty work once you get on site. ",
"You'll be protection, guard dogs, and exfiltration experts.\"",
"\n\nMurdock slammed his palm down on the table. \"",
"A civilian? ",
"Not a chance. ",
"We can't accept a civilian on a mission. ",
"We'd be slowed down, compromised, lose some people right off. ",
"What civilian?\"",
"\n\n\"An expert on dismantling nuclear weapons. ",
"Be handy to have somebody like that around, wouldn't it?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"But your expert first has to make it into the target. ",
" We'd have to guarantee that, right? ",
"I could lose four or five men protecting a damned civilian. ",
"What if we have a five-mile underwater swim or a HALO jump? ",
"How can a civilian keep up with SEALs? ",
"It just won't work.\"",
"\n\n\"The President says it will work, Murdock. ",
"So it's up to you to make it work instead of bitching. ",
"You think about that for a minute. ",
"I'll be right back.\"",
"\n\nMurdock watched Stroh walk away, then stared at his coffee. ",
"A mission, fine. ",
"Any mission. ",
"But taking a civilian along into Iran? ",
"He'd been in Arab countries before. ",
"No damn fun. ",
"He looked up as Stroh came back.",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"I saw an old friend down the way. ",
"Lieutenant Blake Murdock, this is Katherine 'Kat' Garnet. ",
"Kat, Murdock.\"",
"\n\nShe reached out her hand. ",
"Murdock fumbled his way out of the booth to stand, and took her hand. ",
"She had a surprisingly firm grip.",
"\n\n\"Pleased to meet you, Miss Garnet. ",
"Stroh usually doesn't have such attractive friends.\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock, Kat is the civilian we're sending along with you to take care of those small toys we talked about.\"",
"\n\nMurdock's eyes went wide; his frown came at once. ",
"He shook his head. \"",
"Stroh, you've got to be joking.\"",
"\n\n\"No joke, Lieutenant. ",
"The President has cleared it. ",
"It's a done deal. ",
"Kat goes with you. ",
"Last time I looked, the President was still the Commander in Chief. ",
"That would mean he outranks you, and is your boss. ",
"Right?\"",
"\n\nMurdock sat down quickly. \"",
"Yeah, Stroh, right.\"",
"\n\nKat Garnet grinned, and slid into the booth beside Stroh.",
"\n_2_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 0800 hours \n104 Tabas Street \nTehran, Iran \nJomhuri-ye Islami-ye, Iran\n\nIt was called the street of thieves in Farsi, and George Imhoff still couldn't pronounce it correctly. ",
"He'd slipped into the country two months ago and had been working with Shahpur Shamil, an undercover Iranian national who drew his pay from the CIA.",
"\n\nTogether they had been trying to find out the exact location of the secret Iranian nuclear development project.",
"\n\nSo far they had come up with little.",
"\n\n\"It is somewhere far south and in the center of the area where there are few residents,\" Shamil said. \"",
"That we know for sure. ",
"I have coffee with one of the scientists working in the area in an hour in the back room of a small shop a kilometer from here. ",
"He said you couldn't come. ",
"He's taking enough risk just talking with me. ",
"He's home to attend to some family business. ",
"He returns tomorrow.\"",
"\n\n\"Maybe you can get a look at his airline ticket,\" George said.",
"\n\n\"Oh, no. ",
"Not fly. ",
"No airport anywhere near there, he said. ",
"He'll go by car and truck all of the way.\"",
"\n\n\"You mean this area is so isolated there isn't even a railroad in there? ",
"Good, now we're making progress. ",
"Can you get for me a complete map of the train system in Iran?\"",
"\n\n\"Of course, but it will cost us.\"",
"\n\n\"How much?\"",
"\n\n\"Two hundred American dollars.\"",
"\n\n\"Do it. ",
"Make a phone call, whatever it takes.\"",
"\n\nGeorge washed his hands over his face. ",
"He was thirty-five, still single his mother kept telling him, and somewhere near the top of the bracket for CIA field agents. ",
"So why did he feel like his life was going down the toilet? ",
"His Farsi was weak. ",
"He couldn't speak a word of Turkic, and his Kurdish was minimal. ",
"You needed all three languages to function well in this part of the world.",
"\n\nSo, he would maintain. ",
"The Far Eastern Desk said they absolutely had to have the intel on this one by next Friday. ",
"He had a fucking week to find out what he hadn't been able to get in two months. ",
"Great. ",
"What was he supposed to do...\"\n\nShamil had said something.",
"\n\n\"Sorry, I was far afield thinking.\"",
"\n\nShamil nodded. \"",
"It is good for one to think from time to time. ",
"I do not do enough thinking. ",
"Now I must go and make that phone call from the booth, then go see our friend from southern Iran. ",
"He's given me no clue where the facility is situated.\" ",
"He hesitated. \"",
"It will cost us.\"",
"\n\n\"How much?\"",
"\n\n\"My guess is a thousand dollars, American, will loosen his tongue.\"",
"\n\nGeorge pulled a money belt from around his waist and opened it. ",
"He counted out fifteen used one-hundred-dollar bills and gave them to the Iranian. ",
"He had no way of knowing how much of the money Shahpur would keep and how much he would give to the informant. ",
"It didn't matter. ",
"Both men were putting their lives in peril for having anything to do with George and the Organization.",
"\n\n\"So, good hunting. ",
"There is a British student I need to see this afternoon. ",
"Remember, I'm a tourist with all the proper stamped papers, passport, visas, the works. ",
"So far nobody has asked to see my papers, which is a good sign. ",
"I must be blending in with the life and times of Iran well enough to get by.\"",
"\n\n\"I pray to Allah twice a day that I, too, can escape detection. ",
"The secret police are everywhere. ",
"The fundamentalists...\" He stopped and shook his head. \"",
"Not even here can I criticize them. ",
"I must be going.\"",
"\n\nAs soon as George saw his new friend get to the street and walk away, he lowered the front window blind on the second-story apartment, and waited. ",
"Before he could fully enjoy the anticipation, a knock sounded on the two-room apartment's front door. ",
"He unlocked it and pulled it open.",
"\n\nYasmeen stood there looking back over her shoulder. ",
"As soon as the door opened, she rushed inside and closed it behind her. ",
"She was breathing hard and the fire in her eyes made her pretty face glow with excitement.",
"\n\n\"I thought they were following me, but it was only two young boys out to trap a girl.\" ",
"She put her arms around his neck and pulled his face down. ",
"She kissed him, long and deep. ",
"Her body pressed hard against him and he felt her shiver. ",
"He wasn't sure if it was because she was thrilled to be here, or because of the danger and the mystery of it all.",
"\n\nYasmeen let him go and smiled up. ",
"She was five-one, a slender figure dressed in dark brown with her head covered with a thin shawl that was used to cover her face as well when she was in public.",
"\n\nShe kissed him again and led him to the bed in the far room, where they sat.",
"\n\n\"You know what they would do if they caught me here?\"",
"\n\nHe kissed her and rubbed one breast.",
"\n\n\"First they would publicly humiliate me, then they would cut off one breast. ",
"Then they would take away all my identification cards so I could not get a job or buy food. ",
"I will not be caught here.\"",
"\n\nHe kissed her again, and lay her on the bed, on her back. ",
"He started to say something, but she shook her head. \"",
"First make love to me the way you do American women. ",
"You are so thoughtful, so tender, so gentle.",
"\n\n\"Iranian women have no rights. ",
"We can't vote, we can't be outside without our faces covered, we can't drive a car, we can't own property, we can't get a good job anywhere. ",
"We are little more than baby-making machines. ",
"I hate it all.\"",
"\n\nShe pulled at his belt and tried to get his zipper down.",
"\n\n\"Quickly now, before someone comes. ",
"One of them might have followed me after all. ",
"They are extremely good tailing people.\"",
"\n\nA half hour later she lay in the sheets, her heart still beating wildly. ",
"He sat beside her, kissed her lips once more, and nodded.",
"\n\n\"Now, Yasmeen, tell me your news. ",
"Help me strike back at the dictators who run your country.\"",
"\n\nShe sat up, and her breasts bounced. ",
"George noticed and enjoyed the moment, then watched her face. ",
"With this woman he knew for sure he could tell if she were lying.",
"\n\n\"My father's trucking company was hired to haul goods from a port far down to the south. ",
"I know they went as far as Chah Bahar, which is almost in Pakistan. ",
"They picked up the loads at Bushehr well up on the Persian Gulf.\"",
"\n\n\"Why truck material all the way down the coast when it could have been off-loaded from the ships at Chah Bahar?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, everything was supposed to go to Shiraz, the biggest town in the southern half of the country. ",
"But then they changed the orders and it all went south.\"",
"\n\n\"Any idea what these goods were?\" ",
"he asked.",
"\n\nThey began to dress then, and she put on her clothes without embarrassment.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yes, Father talked about it. ",
"They were huge machine tools, heavy as the gods, as Father said. ",
"Then there were high-precision optical instruments. ",
"Tons and tons of cement to make concrete from, and three huge electrical generators and fuel to run them. ",
"Hundreds of other things, including construction materials. ",
"They all were loaded on Father's trucks and taken south. ",
"Even he didn't know the exact destination. ",
"This was all two years ago.\"",
"\n\n\"Where could the trucks go once they got to Chah Bahar? ",
"It seems to me there is little down that far. ",
"A few mountains along the coast, then the desert plateau inland for hundreds of miles.\"",
"\n\nShe nodded. \"",
"Not much in there. ",
"Why would somebody want to put up some kind of a plant in the middle of a desert?\"",
"\n\nThey were dressed then. ",
"George checked out the window. ",
"She should leave soon. ",
"He wondered if anyone would be waiting for her. ",
"Out the window, he saw movement. ",
"A man with a military-type rifle hurried from one doorway to the next. ",
"He scanned the street both ways.",
"\n\nYes, there were more of them. ",
"Civilian clothes, but definitely military-type movements. ",
"Where were they going? ",
"Then he figured it out. ",
"They were closing in from both directions on this building where he lived.",
"\n\nHe caught up a small bag that he always had ready, with everything incriminating about him inside it. ",
"He took out a .45 pistol with an extended 15-round magazine in the handle.",
"\n\nYasmeen's eyes went wide. \"",
"What?\"",
"\n\n\"Troops in the street. ",
"I have an idea they're coming here. ",
"Quick, we'll go out the back window and across the roofs. ",
"Maybe they haven't got that covered yet. ",
"Now.\"",
"\n\nThey hurried into the back room, and he opened the window. ",
"Before they could leave, they heard the front door smashed down. ",
"It sounded like two men in the front room. ",
"George stepped to the door and looked around it. ",
"Two shots slammed into the doorjamb just over his head.",
"\n\nHe leaned out again, firing with the automatic. ",
"Both Iranians went down with chest shots.",
"\n\nHe surged to the window, helped Yasmeen out, and they rushed down a narrow ledge to the first-floor roof of the building behind them.",
"\n\nBefore they got there, two shots snarled from the window they had just left. ",
"Chips of plaster rained on them as they dropped to the roof. ",
"George fired twice at the open window, driving the men there back.",
"\n\nThen they came to the roof edge. ",
"They hung by their hands, and dropped six feet to the alley.",
"\n\n\"Run,\" he said, and they rushed down the alley hidden from their former room by the houses. ",
"Half a block down they slowed. \"",
"We need to get away from here. ",
"Any ideas?\"",
"\n\nHer face was pinched and frightened, but she nodded. ",
"She had pulled her head covering up to mask her face now and they hurried along the street.",
"\n\n\"We walk, not run. ",
"Make it as casual as possible. ",
"You stay ten meters behind me. ",
"I know a place you can hide. ",
"Why are they shooting at you?\" ",
"She didn't wait for an answer as they hurried down the first alley.",
"\n\nThey walked for what he figured was a half hour, going from one alley to the next, working away from the down-town area. ",
"He heard sirens and some trucks grinding along, but saw no soldiers or the civilian-garbed enforcers.",
"\n\nGeorge noticed that they had entered a poorer section of the city of 7.2 million people. ",
"The buildings were of stucco, but in poor shape. ",
"They left the alley, and went halfway down a long block before Yasmeen turned in at a walkway. ",
"They went to the back of a two-story house a little better than some of the others.",
"\n\n\"A friend from our small freedom group lives here. ",
"Don't be surprised, he's a little different.\"",
"\n\nShe knocked on the door, and when it opened, the largest man George had ever seen stared at them. ",
"He wore nothing but a pair of shorts that barely covered his crotch. ",
"George figured the man weighed at least four hundred pounds. ",
"His face had been grim, but when he saw Yasmeen, he smiled and screeched in delight.",
"\n\n\"Little flower,\" he said in Farsi. ",
"He picked her up like she was a feather and whirled her around. ",
"He planted a kiss on her forehead and set her down.",
"\n\n\"Who the fuck is this?\" ",
"the man asked in Brooklyn-accented English.",
"\n\nAbout an hour before George's mad dash from the apartment, Shahpur Shamil had arrived at the coffee shop early, passed eighteen thousand rials, about six dollars U.S., to the shop owner, and hurried into the back room reserved for special customers.",
"\n\nHis contact was already there sipping one of the thick native coffees.",
"\n\n\"You are early,\" the tall, thin man said in Farsi.",
"\n\n\"We have much to talk about.\"",
"\n\nThe owner brought in a coffee for Shamil, and he tasted it, then looked at the other man.",
"\n\n\"We don't need names, as I told you before. ",
"I just want to know where you work. ",
"How close to what town.\"",
"\n\nThe man smiled. \"",
"We spoke of some compensation.\"",
"\n\n\"I have five hundred American dollars.\"",
"\n\nThe man held out his hand.",
"\n\nShamil had carefully counted out five hundred from the fifteen hundred before he arrived, and now he drew it from his pocket.",
"\n\nThe man pulled his hand back and shook his head. \"",
"I'm taking a great risk. ",
"It must be a thousand.\"",
"\n\n\"You said...\" Shamil shrugged. ",
"He would still have five hundred dollars left. ",
"He reached in the other pocket and pulled out the second five hundred. ",
"The man took it and smiled.",
"\n\n\"My new friend, you have just won yourself a place in the hearts of your countrymen.\"",
"\n\nAs he said it, two doors burst open and four men with machine pistols stormed into the room. ",
"Two grabbed Shamil and threw him against the wall and held him there. ",
"A third searched him, took out the other five hundred dollars, and put it in his pocket. ",
"He backhanded Shamil with a gloved hand.",
"\n\nThen the same man went to the table where the tall engineer still sat, and held out his hand. ",
"The engineer gave all but one of the bills to the secret service police. ",
"They both nodded. ",
"The tall, thin man stood and, without looking at Shamil, left the room by the back door.",
"\n\nThe secret policeman turned to face Shamil. \"",
"We didn't even suspect you at first. ",
"You were so clumsy. ",
"Surely the American CIA wouldn't rely on one as stupid as you are. ",
"The money proves we were wrong.",
"\n\n\"Where is your American CIA agent? ",
"No one in Iran has this kind of American money without getting it from an American agent.\"",
"\n\nShamil turned his head and looked at the wall. ",
"He remained silent. ",
"He didn't even see the policeman draw his gun. ",
"He fired the pistol once. ",
"The small round blasted through Shamil's right knee and jolted him to the floor.",
"\n\n\"Now, Shahpur Shamil, you have two minutes to live unless you tell us exactly where we can find the bastard American CIA agent.\"",
"\n\nShamil shook his head. ",
"They would kill him anyway. ",
"His knee hurt so bad he couldn't think straight.",
"\n\nThen a second shot hit him in the shoulder, shattering two bones there and bringing a great wail of pain. ",
"He almost blacked out, but fought to stay conscious.",
"\n\nWhen he recovered enough to have a coherent thought, he told the secret service officer the address.",
"\n\nThe officer wrote it down, then nodded to the traitor.",
"\n\n\"Thank you for your fine service to Iran and the greater Islamic Republic.\" ",
"He scowled, then shot Shamil twice in the head, and hurried out the back door on his way to find the American spy.",
"\n_3_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 1132 hours \nNiland Cafe \nNiland, California\n\nMurdock sat in the booth and stared at the pretty woman across from him. ",
"She was slim, looked fit, had short brown hair, maybe five-eight, tanned and with penetrating brown eyes that watched him with barely concealed amusement.",
"\n\n\"Stroh, you aren't kidding, are you? ",
"I'm surprised.\"",
"\n\n\"Blown out of the water seems a better Navy phrase, Lieutenant Murdock,\" Kat said. \"",
"I've had that reaction before at other good old boy's clubs.\"",
"\n\n\"Can you swim, Miss Garnet?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, and I'm a SCUBA instructor.\" ",
"Her mouth formed half a smile.",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"What about parachuting?\"",
"\n\n\"I've had twenty jumps so far, concentrating on free fall.\" ",
"The half smile grew.",
"\n\nStroh gave a short laugh. \"",
"Let's forget the twenty questions, Lieutenant. ",
"Here's her short biography: Kat is twenty-eight, has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from M.I.T. Has been working on dismantling our overstock on nuke warheads. ",
"She's a C-12 on the civil service scale. ",
"Is she in good shape? ",
"She won the second Hawaiian triathlon ever held for women. ",
"Now she keeps in shape running marathons. ",
"I'm wondering if your SEALs will be able to keep up with her.\"",
"\n\nMurdock closed his eyes and lifted his brows. ",
"He took a deep breath. ",
"Then he nodded and looked up at Kat.",
"\n\n\"Well, it looks like I have my orders, Miss Garnet. ",
"Welcome to the Third Platoon of SEAL Team Seven.\"",
"\n\nShe smiled, and it erased the harsh lines of a frown.",
"\n\n\"Thank you, Lieutenant Murdock. ",
"Please call me Kat. ",
"I'm looking forward to working with you.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, our first job is to survive. ",
"Our next job is to get to the target. ",
"Then we, or in this case, you, do the dismantling and destruction. ",
"Then we have our biggest task—trying to exfiltrate out of some hellhole without getting ourselves killed.\"",
"\n\nShe unclenched her hands where they had been gripped in her lap, and smiled. \"",
"First things first, Lieutenant Murdock. ",
"I especially like that part about surviving. ",
"I did hesitate before I took on this job. ",
"Then the President called me. ",
"One advantage you have over me: Nobody has ever shot at me trying to put big holes in my body.\"",
"\n\n\"Our job is to protect you, Kat, and call me Murdock. ",
"No sense our getting to the target if you're riding along dead in a body bag.\"",
"\n\n\"I don't like body bags.\" ",
"She looked up and a small frown creased her pretty face. \"",
"Oh, one more thing. ",
"I've never fired a gun in my life. ",
"I figure I need to learn how.\"",
"\n\n\"No problem. ",
"We've got sixteen experts who will be falling all over themselves to teach you.\" ",
"Murdock looked over at Stroh, who couldn't stop grinning.",
"\n\n\"This shoots your timing schedule all to hell, Stroh. ",
"No nonsense about a week for our DOD. ",
"I can rely on the current sharpness of my men, but I'll need at least a month to get Kat integrated and up to speed. ",
"How big a pack can she carry? ",
"What weapon for her? ",
"Check her out underwater with the rebreather. ",
"Can she jump with forty pounds of gear? ",
"Has she ever parachuted into water? ",
"Hell, we've got a year's worth of training for her to jam into a month.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll talk to my people and they will talk to the President. ",
"State is all out of joint on this one. ",
"They say if any one Arab state gets a workable bomb, they can blackmail half the rest of the Arab states and form the biggest Muslim nation in the world. ",
"That will upset the balance of power over there, and jeopardize the whole Middle Eastern oil flow. ",
"The oil, of course, is the biggest worry.\"",
"\n\n\"Have your people talk to my people,\" Murdock said, and Kat laughed.",
"\n\nMurdock looked at the woman again, only then noticing what she wore: a skirt, mid-calf, and a brown blouse with short sleeves.",
"\n\n\"What kind of shoes are you wearing?\" ",
"Murdock asked Kat.",
"\n\n\"Shoes? ",
"Oh, one-inch heels. ",
"Sturdy enough?\"",
"\n\n\"Good, we might as well get started. ",
"We won't be back to the Kill House for a while. ",
"Let's get out there and I'll run you through it for a cold-shower approach to what you're letting yourself in for.\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"I want to do some shooting today, too.\"",
"\n\nMurdock stood, and Kat was up with him.",
"\n\n\"You have any gear?\" ",
"he asked.",
"\n\n\"Just one bag in the booth.\"",
"\n\n\"Bring it,\" Murdock said, and headed for the door. ",
"Kat looked confused for a moment, then hurried to the booth, picked up her black travel bag, and ran out the front door. ",
"When she got to the Buick, Stroh held open the rear door for her.",
"\n\nOn the drive out to the range, Stroh said he'd arranged for Kat to have quarters at the Amphibious Base Officers Quarters.",
"\n\n\"On the books, Kat, you'll have the temporary rank of Lieutenant,\" Stroh said. \"",
"That's not a field rank, but in the SEALs rank doesn't count anyway. ",
"As the President told you, your main job is to stay alive going in so you can do the job on the nukes.\"",
"\n\n\"So it doesn't matter a hell of a lot if I make it out of the country alive or not?\" ",
"Kat asked.",
"\n\n\"Getting those nukes destroyed and the rest of their nuclear capacity blasted into rubble is our only job,\" Murdock said. \"",
"If we do that, it isn't important if any of us come out.\" ",
"He hesitated and watched her shiver. \"",
"Of course to each one of us it's damn important to get out of there in one chunk.\"",
"\n\nKat lifted her brows and smiled. \"",
"I like that last part the best.\"",
"\n\nThey pulled up at the Navy bus on the range, and Kat and Murdock got out. ",
"Kat carried her bag.",
"\n\nMurdock talked to Stroh through the open front window. \"",
"Remember, I need a month to get this crew put together, and to safeguard Kat. ",
"Won't do any good to get to the target in there if we lose her going in. ",
"Make your boss and the President understand that. ",
"A month. ",
"No less.\"",
"\n\nThe platoon was still out on one of the training exercises. ",
"Murdock motioned to Kat. \"",
"Over this way, sailor. ",
"Leave your bag in the bus, and we'll take a look at the Kill House.\"",
"\n\nHe went with her to the bus, picked up a Colt .45 pistol and three extra magazines and the new H&K G11 they had been testing. ",
"Kat looked at the weapons. ",
"He pushed the safety on, on the .45, and pulled out the magazine, racking back the slide and catching the forty-five round that spun out. ",
"He handed the weapon to her.",
"\n\n\"Get the feel of it. ",
"This could be one of the weapons that you'll carry.\"",
"\n\nShe took the gun and frowned. \"",
"Heavy, isn't it?\"",
"\n\n\"Heavier with a loaded magazine in it.\"",
"\n\nThey stopped twenty yards from the Kill House. ",
"It was especially built of bullet-absorbing material so the rounds wouldn't go all the way through and outside where they could hurt anyone. ",
"It had a roof and four rooms all rigged with the \"terrorist\" dummies.",
"\n\nMurdock took the weapon from her and pushed in the magazine. ",
"Then he gave the forty-five back to her.",
"\n\n\"Grab the slide on top and pull it backward.\"",
"\n\nShe tried. ",
"It didn't move. ",
"He put her hand forward and showed her how to grip it.",
"\n\n\"This weapon is no good unless you can rack the slide back. ",
"That pushes one round from the spring-loaded magazine into the firing chamber. ",
"Then it's ready to fire.\"",
"\n\nShe tried again, and this time pulled the slide back, and let it snap forward.",
"\n\n\"Locked and loaded,\" Murdock said. \"",
"That means you're ready to fire.\" ",
"He reached over and pushed off the safety. \"",
"This is the safety. ",
"You can't pull the trigger when this is on. ",
"Now it's off. ",
"Always keep the muzzle of a loaded weapon pointed down-range.\"",
"\n\nShe lifted the forty-five and pointed it at the building. ",
"She held it in her right hand. ",
"It wavered a little, but she was strong.",
"\n\n\"Fire it,\" he said.",
"\n\nShe looked at him and lifted her brows. \"",
"Remember you've got a virgin here. ",
"My very first time.\"",
"\n\n\"So we go slow and gentle.\"",
"\n\nShe grinned, and pulled the trigger. ",
"The weapon went off, and the recoil swung her hand well above her head.",
"\n\n\"Wow. ",
"I did it, I shot a firearm. ",
"What a kick. ",
"I didn't expect that much.\"",
"\n\n\"With an automatic you have a new round every time you pull the trigger. ",
"Try another shot, and try to hold the muzzle down a little this time.\"",
"\n\nThey worked for fifteen minutes on the forty-five. ",
"Toward the end she used two hands to hold the heavy weapon. ",
"He showed her the overlapping grip.",
"\n\nAs they finished the last magazine in the forty-five, Lieutenant (j.g.) ",
"Ed DeWitt brought the platoon up to the side of the Kill House. ",
"DeWitt's cammies were sweat-soaked on the chest and under each arm. ",
"He carried a Colt M-4A1 with the 40mm grenade launcher over his right shoulder, and stared at Murdock and Kat.",
"\n\n\"DeWitt, get over here and stop gawking.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt walked up and kept staring at Kat.",
"\n\n\"Kat Garnet, I'd like you to meet Lieutenant (j.g.) ",
"Ed DeWitt, second in command of the Third Platoon. ",
"Ed, this is Katherine Garnet, Lieutenant Garnet to you.\"",
"\n\nEd saluted sharply and stepped forward. \"",
"Pardon me for staring, Lieutenant, but it isn't often that we have a pretty lady on our little training site out here in the desert.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll be around from now on, Lieutenant. ",
"Call me Kat. ",
"I'd expect that Murdock has some interesting news for you and the rest of the platoon.\" ",
"That half little smile edged her face again, and Murdock wasn't sure if she were really smiling or laughing at him.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, there's that. ",
"Kat, maybe you'd like to tell the troops?\"",
"\n\n\"Not a chance, Murdock. ",
"I'll be interested to see how you handle the news.\"",
"\n\n\"Me, too,\" Murdock said and they both laughed. ",
"DeWitt didn't understand what was going on.",
"\n\n\"Murdock, past chow time,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\nMurdock chuckled. \"",
"Oh, yeah, great idea. ",
"Put this off, and let me think on it a minute.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt called, and the platoon broke out of its position on a run and converged on the bus.",
"\n\n\"While we're here, let me show you the new H&K G11. ",
"It's an automatic rifle. ",
"Works this way. ",
"Two positions on the fire selector. ",
"Fully automatic and three-round bursts.\"",
"\n\nMurdock moved the selector to three-round and charged a round into the chamber, then leveled the boxlike weapon at the Kill House and blasted out three rounds.",
"\n\n\"Fully auto it works this way.\"",
"\n\nHe pushed the selector lever to auto, and chattered out a dozen rounds into the Kill House.",
"\n\nShe tried it. ",
"He fit the butt to her shoulder and she fired. ",
"The three rounds stuttered out, and the barrel hardly moved. ",
"When he shifted the selector to automatic she looked at him.",
"\n\n\"I just pull the trigger and hold it back?\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"It fires up to fifty rounds as long as you hold back the trigger.\"",
"\n\nShe looked at him, then set her mouth. ",
"Her finger closed around the trigger, and she aimed at the Kill House. ",
"The first three rounds hit it, then the rounds climbed into the sky. ",
"Murdock caught the weapon and brought it back down. ",
"She eased off the trigger.",
"\n\n\"Forgot to tell you that you have to really hold this one steady or it climbs on you.\"",
"\n\n\"Now you tell me.\"",
"\n\n\"Enough for today. ",
"You'll need daily training on weapons. ",
"Now how about a delicious meal at the mess hall?\"",
"\n\nHer dark brown eyes evaluated him. \"",
"Murdock, how can I figure out when you're teasing me and when to believe you?\"",
"\n\n\"Tough question, Kat. ",
"So far few people have figured that out.\"",
"\n\nThe mess hall was the bus. ",
"The delicious meal was the famous MRE, Meal Ready to Eat. ",
"This particular one was Menu No. ",
"6. ",
"The MREs are stable, long-lasting field rations and not the favorite of most of the GI's who use them now and then. ",
"For the SEALs they were a lot easier than hauling a kitchen out to the firing/training range at Niland.",
"\n\n\"Thought we were getting McDonald's takeout this time,\" Harry \"Horse\" Ronson called. ",
"The SEALs shouted him down.",
"\n\nMurdock gave Kat one of the dark brown MREs and sat in the dust on the shady side of the bus with one of his own.",
"\n\n\"Have a seat, anywhere,\" he said.",
"\n\nMurdock cut open the heavy brown plastic envelope on Kat's MRE, which was a foot long and seven inches wide. \"",
"Enjoy.\"",
"\n\nKat poured out the contents. ",
"The largest olive drab plastic envelope was the main course: \"Chicken à la King, #2117.\"",
"\n\n\"Heat it up or eat it cold,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nShe investigated the rest: one plastic package of cocoa beverage powder, a plastic spoon, a paper package of beverage base powder, a plastic package of peanut butter, crackers, and an accessory brown envelope. ",
"Inside it was a small bottle of one-eighth of an ounce of Tabasco sauce, paper matches, a moist towelette, instant coffee, salt, toilet paper, sugar, nondairy creamer, and chewing gum.",
"\n\n\"All this for lunch?\" ",
"Kat asked.",
"\n\n\"If we ever had time to heat it up and eat it,\" Murdock said. \"",
"No fire, no coffee. ",
"Cocoa maybe. ",
"Peanut butter on crackers for sure. ",
"The chicken à la king isn't bad with a little of the Tabasco sauce on it.\"",
"\n\nThe men kept looking at Kat. ",
"Ed had told them only her name and rank. ",
"That made them even more curious. ",
"Murdock finished his quick meal and stood.",
"\n\n\"You may have been wondering about our guest. ",
"Her name is Katherine, call me Kat, Garnet. ",
"She's a G-12 in government service, and for this assignment holds the temporary rank of full Lieutenant. ",
"You will at all times treat her with proper respect.",
"\n\n\"Kat is going to be training with us for the next three or four weeks. ",
"No, this isn't for a movie. ",
"As you saw, Don Stroh, our old buddy from the CIA, was here this morning. ",
"He brings us some news. ",
"Part of it is that we have an upcoming mission. ",
"We'll be going into Arab lands somewhere to deactivate, dismember, and generally destroy that nation's nuclear bomb building program.",
"\n\n\"How many of you know how to deactivate a nuclear bomb and destroy the plutonium inside it?\" ",
"He looked around, but no hands went up.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, me, too. ",
"Kat is a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from M.I.T. Not a bad school but their football team stinks.\" ",
"He waited for the laugh that came.",
"\n\n\"What this all means is that Kat will be training with us for what we hope will be the next four weeks, then she will be going with us, infiltrating into this Arab nation, where we will find, and Kat will destroy, the nuclear capability, and take care of the plutonium.\"",
"\n\nHe heard some groans from the troops.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, I know how you feel. ",
"By the way, Kat won the second Hawaiian triathlon for women. ",
"She keeps in shape running marathons for fun. ",
"That's over twenty-six miles, girls. ",
"Our job will be to try to keep up with her.",
"\n\n\"She's with us. ",
"That's on special Presidential orders. ",
"Not exactly a rank we can buck. ",
"She'll train with us, go in with us, do her job while we play guard dogs, and then we'll come out with her and all the rest of you. ",
"Now, any comments?\"",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant, ma'am. ",
"Did you check first with Demi Moore?\" ",
"Magic Brown asked.",
"\n\nA smattering of laughter.",
"\n\n\"No, but I did see her movie.\"",
"\n\n\"Will you hold us back, ma'am? ",
"Meaning no disrespect?\" ",
"Jaybird Sterling asked it.",
"\n\n\"Not if I can help it. ",
"I'm tougher than I look. ",
"I could have said no to this offer. ",
"The President didn't order me in here. ",
"I have no problem with swimming. ",
"I'm a SCUBA instructor. ",
"Jumping, I've made twenty jumps, want to do more. ",
"Damnit, SEALs, I'll be trying as fucking hard as I can.\"",
"\n\nThe SEALs gave a shout of approval.",
"\n\nMurdock took over. \"",
"That's a wrap, folks. ",
"Let's get on the bus and head back. ",
"We need to outfit Kat and set up a new training sched. ",
"Things will change, but they will be the same, only tougher. ",
"You may think the next four weeks are going to be worse than hell week from the Grinder days. ",
"Let's get to it.\"",
"\n\nThree hours later, they were back in Coronado at the SEALs training base. ",
"Lieutenant (j.g.) ",
"DeWitt took Kat to base operations, where he found arrangements had already been made for Lieutenant Garnet. ",
"A complete set of SEAL uniforms and gear had been put in her quarters.",
"\n\nShe stared at the pile of uniforms and equipment.",
"\n\n\"So, you're set, Lieutenant. ",
"Uniform of the day tomorrow will be cammies like I have on, and boots. ",
"Report to the quarterdeck promptly at oh-eight-hundred and you'll be brought to our area.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt hesitated. \"",
"Oh, Kat. ",
"Out here in Navy world, your temp rank will carry weight. ",
"Inside SEAL country rank doesn't mean squat. ",
"Some of the guys might get on you. ",
"Take it in good spirit. ",
"These men depend on each other for their very lives when we're out there on a mission. ",
"Somebody fucks up, somebody dies. ",
"We don't want that to happen. ",
"That's why we've got four weeks to make you into the best SEAL there ever was.\"",
"\n\nKat bit her lip and squinted her brown eyes. \"",
"Lieutenant DeWitt, I like to think I'm a fast learner. ",
"I'll do my damnedest to learn what I must, to do what I have to, and to make sure that I don't cause any glitches in the traditional SEAL procedures. ",
"Thanks for the escort, and I'll see you bright and early at oh-eight-hundred tomorrow.\"",
"\n_4_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 0932 hours \nTehran, Iran\n\nGeorge Imhoff didn't believe his eyes or his ears. ",
"The four-hundred-pound man had demanded to know who he was. ",
"This Brooklyn blubber ball was an American.",
"\n\nYasmeen moved into the void quickly. \"",
"Please let us in, and I'll explain everything. ",
"Come on, Tauksaun, it's an emergency.\"",
"\n\nThe huge man waddled back from the door and made a narrow passage for them to enter. ",
"It was a single room, with a small kitchen on one side, a bed on the other, and two chairs in between. ",
"The bed was a mattress on the floor. ",
"George figured no bedsprings or frame could support all that weight.",
"\n\nThe man she had called Tauksaun settled down on the bed and stared at George.",
"\n\n\"He's a fucking American government man, FBI or the damned CIA or something. ",
"I don't want him in my place.\"",
"\n\n\"Tauksaun, he just shot two, and maybe more, Secret Police. ",
"They have a dragnet out to find him. ",
"I figure he must be on our side.\"",
"\n\n\"So he is CIA. ",
"I can spot you guys a mile away. ",
"What the fuck you looking for?\"",
"\n\n\"Where are you from, Tauksaun?\" ",
"George asked. \"",
"Where in Brooklyn?\"",
"\n\n\"What do you mean, Brooklyn. ",
"I'm from Hempstead out on the Island.\"",
"\n\n\"Sure you are. ",
"My guess would be Flatbush Avenue, down toward the Marine Park. ",
"Maybe Nostrand Avenue.\"",
"\n\n\"Hey, man, you're way off. ",
"No fucking Flatbush Avenue. ",
"We had more class than that. ",
"Hey, you are CIA, right?\"",
"\n\n\"Why else would I be in this hellhole? ",
"What are you doing here?\"",
"\n\n\"Hiding from the damn IRS. ",
"Claim I owe them over a hundred thousand, with all of their penalties and interest. ",
"CIA, damn. ",
"What the hell you looking for?\"",
"\n\n\"Important shit. ",
"I don't know if Yasmeen thought you could help me, or just hide me for a couple of days.\"",
"\n\n\"Hey, anything I can do to put a hot poker up the ass of the Secret Police, I'll do in a second.\"",
"\n\nYasmeen looked at George. \"",
"Tauksaun knows a great many people in Tehran. ",
"He's lived here for five years. ",
"Most of the protest groups seek his advice.\"",
"\n\n\"Is there a protest group against nuclear weapons?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\nTauksaun laughed and slapped his bare thigh. \"",
"Now we're getting down to where the rubber meets the road. ",
"Nuclear weapons, of course. ",
"What else would the CIA be interested in? ",
"I have contacts, but they are not easy to locate. ",
"I'm not good at running through the rat warren this town has become. ",
"They should starve half the people here, and start over.\"",
"\n\n\"You know about the work the Iranian government is doing to make nuclear weapons?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, we hear talk. ",
"We go to meetings. ",
"We have some sources of information, but sometimes they turn out to be spies for the Secret Police. ",
"Then that whole cell is wiped out. ",
"As in gravestones.\"",
"\n\n\"We need a little information,\" George said. \"",
"Yasmeen said her father had done some heavy hauling deep into the southern section of Iran. ",
"We think it was building materials and supplies, and tools for work on a nuclear bomb.\"",
"\n\n\"You want to pinpoint the location of the facility,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"Yes, we, too have been working toward that end. ",
"We have little. ",
"Somewhere in the mountains of lower Iran. ",
"We also know that it is carefully camouflaged and can't be detected from the air by plane or satellite.\"",
"\n\n\"That makes it tougher,\" George said. \"",
"It must have a road that leads into it.\"",
"\n\n\"We've heard of a road, but it ends abruptly at the side of a mountain. ",
"There's a sheepherder's cabin there. ",
"The problem is there are thousands of sheepherders' cabins in those southern mountains and the high plateau. ",
"Finding the right one would be a wonder.\"",
"\n\nA door opened a few inches at the back of the room. ",
"Yasmeen watched it, then lifted from her chair and, without a word to the two men, went through the door and closed it.",
"\n\n\"Tiny,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"My woman and Yasmeen are good friends. ",
"Haven't seen each other in a month or two. ",
"We've been busy.\"",
"\n\n\"Do the Iranian authorities know you're here?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\n\"Hell no. ",
"If they did they'd deport my ass in a minisecond.\"",
"\n\n\"How do you survive?\"",
"\n\n\"Tiny works at a store. ",
"Slave wages, but it's enough for us. ",
"I'm not what you'd call easily employable.\"",
"\n\n\"I've had a deadline kicked in my face,\" George said. \"",
"I have six more days to find the exact location of that nuke facility. ",
"I've been working on it two months, and thought we had it knocked. ",
"Then my rep here goes to meet this engineer we know works at the plant. ",
"Next thing I know I'm up to my asshole in Secret Police shooting at me.\"",
"\n\n\"Your rep?\"",
"\n\n\"Either in jail or in the morgue.\"",
"\n\n\"They don't have morgues here. ",
"If they killed him, he's probably on a trash heap somewhere. ",
"If the family finds him, they can bury him. ",
"Did he have any U.S. dollars with him?\"",
"\n\n\"Fifteen hundred.\"",
"\n\n\"He's dead.\"",
"\n\n\"I figured.\"",
"\n\nThey sat there for five minutes without a word. ",
"Then George broke the silence.",
"\n\n\"Tauksaun, can you help me?\"",
"\n\n\"You have a radio in that kit?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\n\"You have plenty of U.S. dollars?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\n\"Either one of those could get all of us in the place killed in a heartbeat. ",
"First we hide the radio, and all but twenty bucks of the cash. ",
"They won't burn us for a twenty. ",
"The fucking Secret Police keep all the dollars they find. ",
"Always have, always will.\"",
"\n\n\"Hide them?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"I'll know where they are. ",
"So will Tiny. ",
"A way to keep you alive. ",
"You have papers?\"",
"\n\nGeorge nodded and handed over his tourist visa and other papers, including a U.S. passport and a letter ascertaining that he was a professor of Middle Eastern history at New York University on leave to study some ancient manuscripts.",
"\n\n\"Ever had to show them to anyone?\"",
"\n\n\"Just some hick cop to the north.\"",
"\n\n\"Parachute in?\"",
"\n\n\"No, came across the border from Russia.\"",
"\n\nThey were silent again.",
"\n\nThe door opened, and Yasmeen came in followed by an extremely small woman. ",
"She was only a little over four feet tall, delicately proportioned, with long black hair to her waist, and flashing black eyes. ",
"Her skin was the color of toasted almonds.",
"\n\nYasmeen took her to George, who hurriedly stood. ",
"Tiny stepped back. ",
"Yasmeen told her in Farsi that in America a man standing when a woman entered a room was a mark of politeness and respect. ",
"Tiny frowned but nodded.",
"\n\n\"George, I want you to meet Tiny. ",
"She takes care of Tauksaun. ",
"Tiny, this is George.\" ",
"Tiny bowed briefly, her eyes downcast. ",
"At last she glanced up at him, smiled, and hurried back through the door they came in.",
"\n\nTauksaun smiled. \"",
"Usually Tiny doesn't meet my friends. ",
"She's shy.\"",
"\n\nYasmeen went back to her seat.",
"\n\n\"Can you help us?\" ",
"she asked, looking at the huge man.",
"\n\nHe waved, moved a pillow on the couch, and took out a cordless phone with an antenna. ",
"He dialed a number, and waited. ",
"He spoke rapidly in Farsi. ",
"The conversation lasted no more than thirty seconds. ",
"He smiled and hung up.",
"\n\nTauksaun's bloated face was serious for a moment, then he smiled thinly. \"",
"There is a chance. ",
"We may have someone who knows something. ",
"He grinds lenses for glasses. ",
"A year ago he was pulled off his job, and sent to Chah Bahar. ",
"He went into the hills, and did much the same work, only not on glass, on some kind of metal that he had never seen before. ",
"He's still not sure what he did or where he was. ",
"Still he might help us.\"",
"\n\n\"Lens grinding?\" ",
"Yasmeen asked.",
"\n\n\"Some of the metal in a nuclear bomb is similar to stainless steel,\" George said. \"",
"It takes careful machining, but any skilled craftsman, like a lens grinder, can do the job.\"",
"\n\n\"Exactly,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"This little man can be contacted tonight. ",
"He's extremely cautious. ",
"He'll talk only to Tiny. ",
"If he's convinced he'll be safe, she'll bring him here. ",
"Then he'll talk only to me.\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds promising. ",
"Your phone. ",
"I thought they were few and far between in this town.\"",
"\n\n\"True, but I can't get out, so I call out. ",
"Easier that way. ",
"Fact is I have two lines, three extensions.\"",
"\n\nGeorge smiled. \"",
"Good plan. ",
"Hey, I need to check in with the office. ",
"Is there a balcony or a roof where I can use my little SATCOM without being seen?\"",
"\n\n\"Let's see it,\" Tauksaun said.",
"\n\nGeorge took out the latest development in the satellite communications field. ",
"The dish traveled folded like a fan that extended into a circle six inches in diameter. ",
"It had a small tripod three inches high. ",
"The send/receive set was minimal, with only voice/data capability. ",
"It had sensors to angle the antenna at the orbiting Milstar satellite at 23,300 miles over the equator in a geosynchroness orbit.",
"\n\nThe small keyboard had a built-in crypto unit that automatically scrambled the message. ",
"He would type it out, approve it, then hit a button to scramble the message. ",
"A few seconds later it was shot out of the small antenna in a data burst of no longer than a tenth of a second. ",
"It was almost impossible to triangulate the signal, even if one listening post picked it up.",
"\n\n\"That one's a lot more advanced than the old ones I used to use,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"Don't be surprised, these are off the shelf now. ",
"Not calibrated to the mil frequency, but good for the satellite.\"",
"\n\n\"The roof?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\nTauksaun nodded, and Yasmeen led the way through the closed door into a second bedroom, and up a steep flight of open stairs to a pull-back door on the roof. ",
"There were no taller houses close by. ",
"He found a good spot behind the structure that topped the stairs, and settled down.",
"\n\nYasmeen sat beside him. ",
"He set up the small antenna aiming it generally southward. ",
"He turned on two switches and checked the glowing lights. ",
"He plugged the lead from the four-inch-square transceiver unit into the antenna, turned on the set, and began to type in his message.",
"\n\n\"George. ",
"One contact might be productive. ",
"Name: Tauksaun. ",
"American. ",
"Suspect location still southernmost area. ",
"Shahpur KIA. ",
"Any intel for me?\"",
"\n\nHe read over the message on the small screen, nodded, and punched the crypto button. ",
"A moment later an indicator light glowed, telling him the transmission had been completed.",
"\n\n\"That's all there is to it?\" ",
"Yasmeen asked.",
"\n\n\"That's it. ",
"Shoots it directly to a satellite which relays it to a receiver in the States.\"",
"\n\n\"Can they talk to you?\"",
"\n\n\"On a schedule. ",
"Midnight and noon local time. ",
"I set up the antenna, turn the set on to receive, and wait for ten minutes. ",
"If nothing comes through, they aren't sending.\" ",
"He folded up the antenna and put the unit back in the heavy plastic carrying case. ",
"He stuffed it in the shoulder bag that held everything he owned in Iran. ",
"His clothes and some other items were by now in the Iranian Secret Police hands.",
"\n\n\"What now?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"We wait and see if Tiny can talk this lens grinder into coming to see Tauksaun. ",
"We don't have enough. ",
"We could wander around those desert roads down there east of Chah Bahar for months, and never find the right sheepherder's shack.\"",
"\n\n\"For my father's trucks, the road would have to be wide, and well made, not the narrow little trails that the shepherds use. ",
"The road should stand out from a light plane flying over.\"",
"\n\nGeorge agreed. ",
"Also it would show up well on a satellite photo. ",
"He'd send that on his next transmission. ",
"Have them move the satellite enough to cover the Iranian southern area on an every hour basis. ",
"The road had to be there. ",
"You couldn't camouflage a heavy truck road through the mountains and across some desert plateau. ",
"They had to find it.",
"\n\nThey went downstairs, and into the front room, where Tauksaun now lay on the bed snoring softly.",
"\n\nTiny looked up and put her finger over her lips. ",
"She motioned them back into the other room and showed them to chairs.",
"\n\n\"Coffee?\" ",
"she asked in English. ",
"They said fine, and watched her work on a small hot plate to boil water.",
"\n\n\"I practice English,\" she said.",
"\n\n\"You're doing very well,\" George said.",
"\n\n\"You wait here. ",
"Tauksaun say. ",
"Maybe tonight the lens grinder comes. ",
"Now, we wait. ",
"You want sugar?\"",
"\n_5_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 1730 hours \nCoronado, California\n\nLieutenant (j.g.) ",
"Ed DeWitt watched Katherine Garnet walk away and through her door in the officers quarters. ",
"It hadn't really hit him yet, a woman on a SEAL mission. ",
"Unthinkable. ",
"Impossible. ",
"Outrageous. ",
"Dangerous as hell.",
"\n\nBut they were going to do it.",
"\n\nHad to. ",
"The President said so.",
"\n\nHe turned and walked out the gate, and across the highway to the SEAL headquarters. ",
"A few minutes later he entered the small offices where the Third Platoon hung out when they were on base.",
"\n\nPlatoon Chief Jaybird Sterling worked over some papers on his desk, and only looked up and nodded. ",
"They were informal where they could be.",
"\n\nDeWitt walked into Murdock's office and dropped into a chair beside the battered desk.",
"\n\n\"We have to go through with this?\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked up and laughed. \"",
"Just how in hell are we going to get out of it? ",
"Not a chance.\" ",
"He threw a wadded-up sheet of paper at the wastebasket across the room. ",
"He missed. ",
"DeWitt saw that there were a lot of misses around the target.",
"\n\n\"Makes sense, in a way. ",
"Having her go in with us. ",
"But why couldn't they have found a man just as good at taking apart nukes? ",
"Now, that I could have lived with a lot easier.\"",
"\n\n\"Living with it, the key phrase,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"How much is she going to compromise us? ",
"Are we going to take any extra KIAs because she's along? ",
"Can we get in there, and out, without getting her killed?\"",
"\n\n\"Wish I knew. ",
"If I did, I'd ask for another two months to make her the best shot in the outfit.\"",
"\n\nThe two career naval officers looked at each other. ",
"The silence stretched out.",
"\n\n\"So, what we have to do is turn Kat into a damn good SEAL in a month,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"About the size of it.\" ",
"Murdock kept staring at DeWitt.",
"\n\n\"You wouldn't.\"",
"\n\n\"I would. ",
"Lieutenant, your new task for the Third Platoon is to be personal training officer for Kat Garnet. ",
"You will be with her twelve to fourteen hours a day. ",
"You will train her until her little buns fall off. ",
"You will make her an expert shot with pistol, and the MP-5 sub-gun.\"",
"\n\n\"How in hell...\"\n\n\"You will do it. ",
"Start with the most important first—shooting. ",
"Work her with the five and a pistol, probably a nine-millimeter with fourteen rounds. ",
"Work out a training sched to show me in the morning. ",
"Hot rounds first. ",
"Might take two weeks. ",
"Then we'll work her into the first squad as our ninth man and try to get her integrated into the platoon conscience. ",
"She has to know what we do and how we do it, so she'll know instinctively what to do and when to do it.\"",
"\n\n\"It's a three-month job, Murdock.\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"So we'll be lucky to get four weeks out of the brass back on the fucking Middle Eastern desk and from State.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn.\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"Hey, what's Mildred going to say you ass-to-elbows all day and half the night with a pretty, sexy woman like Kat?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn. ",
"I won't tell her. ",
"No, I have to. ",
"No secrets. ",
"Damn, already I'm going to be sleeping on the couch.\"",
"\n\n\"Milly might surprise you.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, you're right. ",
"I'll be sleeping in the garage and eating on the patio. ",
"We don't have a dog house.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt yelped and looked at a small notebook he took out of his pocket. \"",
"Oh, damn. ",
"Murdock, I need a favor. ",
"Tonight you were due at our place for a fried chicken dinner. ",
"Call Milly and cancel out. ",
"I've got at least five hours of work to get a training sched to map out for my CO tomorrow.\"",
"\n\n\"Done.\"",
"\n\n\"Don't say anything about Kat. ",
"I'll have to break that news to Milly a little at a time.\"",
"\n\n\"But don't tell her why Kat has to go with us.\"",
"\n\n\"Naturally,\" DeWitt said. ",
"But both he and Murdock knew that he'd have to tell Milly. ",
"There was no way around that kind of a challenge.",
"\n\nEd arrived at his Coronado apartment off base at 1815. ",
"Milly was pacing the kitchen. ",
"She scowled at him, and her fists went onto her hips. ",
"Ed wished he was a religious man so he could say a prayer.",
"\n\n\"I know, I know, he had to cancel out. ",
"That leaves more chicken for me.\" ",
"He swept forward and kissed her, then kissed her again until her akimbo arms dropped and she grinned.",
"\n\n\"Hey, maybe this isn't such a bad deal, after all.\"",
"\n\nMilly looked at his sandy, dirty cammies. \"",
"Shower,\" she said and pointed.",
"\n\nA half hour later, they were eating the fine meal, when Ed began.",
"\n\n\"We had a double whammy, Navy style, today. ",
"We got a new assignment, almost, but Murdock told them we needed another month for training.\"",
"\n\n\"Will you get the extra time?\"",
"\n\n\"I hope so. ",
"Think we will. ",
"Murdock can be damn convincing when he's talking about the platoon.\"",
"\n\n\"What was the other whammy?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, that. ",
"We have a new person to work into the platoon for this assignment, a damned civilian.\"",
"\n\nMilly stopped the fork halfway to her mouth. \"",
"You're joking. ",
"The SEALs have never taken along a civilian on a shooting mission. ",
"What is Washington thinking of?\"",
"\n\n\"Whatever it is, they don't tell me. ",
"Now, how did your day go?\"",
"\n\nMilly looked at him and smiled. \"",
"Hey, did I tell you that I'm just delighted that you're back from your little three-day camping trip. ",
"I missed you. ",
"I don't want you ever to go away again.\"",
"\n\nThey both laughed. ",
"It was a standing joke. ",
"She knew he had to go away, and he did, too. ",
"But in more than a year now, the two of them had weathered the separations. ",
"Twice he'd asked her to marry him. ",
"Twice she had said no.",
"\n\n\"Ed, this is a dangerous game that you're playing,\" she'd said the last time. \"",
"I know it. ",
"You know it. ",
"I've read all the books about the SEALs. ",
"I know now that you do some covert work that nobody can be told about. ",
"I can accept that for now, this way. ",
"But I just can't marry you, and start a family, knowing that you might come home the next time in a damn body bag.\" ",
"Tears had welled up in her eyes and spilled over. ",
"She slashed them away with her hand.",
"\n\nFor now they both accepted that, and made the best of what they had. ",
"Long, quiet walks along the crashing Pacific Ocean. ",
"Dinners out at curious and different eateries around the San Diego area. ",
"Bicycling up and down the streets of Coronado and then playing racketball. ",
"Going to plays and concerts. ",
"Walking through the zoo and Balboa Park. ",
"For now it was enough. ",
"Ed wasn't sure how much longer it would be. ",
"She had never asked him to quit the SEALs, but he was sure that was what she was hoping for.",
"\n\nHe helped her with the dishes, and cleanup, then they sat on the sofa, their thighs touching.",
"\n\n\"So, tall Navy officer, what's on the agenda for tonight?\" ",
"Before he answered, she leaned over and kissed him, and eased him down on the sofa, so she lay on top of him.",
"\n\nThe kiss lasted a long time. ",
"When she came up for air, he chuckled. \"",
"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?\"",
"\n\nShe hit him on the shoulder. \"",
"That's from an old, old movie. ",
"And yes, I am. ",
"After three good sessions, what do you have to do?\"",
"\n\n\"About three hours of planning out a training schedule for this civilian so nobody in the platoon gets killed. ",
"First weapons, then conditioning, parachute jumping, under-water—the works. ",
"Never know what we'll need to do once we get in the field.\"",
"\n\n\"But you're not going to tell me why it's so important that this civilian go along with you on the mission.\"",
"\n\n\"Absolutely not. ",
"Top secret. ",
"Anyway, I don't want to tell you anything to upset you while you're looking and sounding this sexy.\"",
"\n\n\"Like the way you think, sailor. ",
"So, roll me over in the clover, big guy. ",
"As the English song used to go. ",
"Do they still sing that anymore?\"",
"\n\nHe didn't know. ",
"He didn't care. ",
"He had more important things to do right then.",
"\n\nMilly agreed with him, passionately.",
"\n_6_\n\n# Saturday, October 22\n\n## 0700 hours \nSEAL training base \nCoronado, California\n\nKat Garnet had been up since 5 A.M. She frowned. ",
"No, that would be 0500 Navy time. ",
"She had to immerse herself totally, unrelentingly, in Navy now, specifically Navy SEALs. ",
"She could do that. ",
"She had a fast breakfast, then tried on her clothes. ",
"They almost fit, probably the smallest that the Navy issued. ",
"Not exactly from some fancy down-town store. ",
"She grinned when she looked at the beige boxer shorts. ",
"So they were a long way from Jockey ladies' briefs. ",
"She pulled them on. ",
"They nearly fit.",
"\n\nShe rolled up the cammies legs two narrow turns, then put on the Navy bra and the cammie shirt. ",
"It didn't nearly fit. ",
"She stuffed it in the pants and tightened the belt, then looked in the mirror and saw silver bars on her collar. ",
"She took them off and put them in her shirt pocket. ",
"The black jungle boots came next, with the socks rolled down over the tops to keep them from snagging. ",
"Like the boxers, the boots almost fit. ",
"Somebody must have checked. ",
"She realized she'd be spending a lot of time walking and running in those boots, so they better fit right. ",
"She'd know after the first day.",
"\n\nShe put on the cammie-splotched floppy hat and took another look. ",
"It would have to do. ",
"She picked up the plastic-enclosed pass she had been given, and an ID card, also sealed, and put both in the big front-flap shirt pocket.",
"\n\nKat paced the floor of her small quarters a minute, saw that her waterproof wide-plastic-banded watch set for military time showed that it was 0730. ",
"Time to move.",
"\n\nShe pushed open the door and headed for the main gate, to go across the highway to the SEAL headquarters on the other side of the road.",
"\n\nWhen she stepped into the SEAL \"quarterdeck,\" she found it to be only a lobby for the headquarters. ",
"She showed her ID card to a sailor behind a counter and he snapped a salute.",
"\n\n\"Good morning, Lieutenant. ",
"I'll have a man take you down to SEAL Team Seven, Platoon Three.\"",
"\n\nAt once a sailor in blue dungarees appeared at a locked door to her left and motioned to her.",
"\n\n\"This way, ma'am.\"",
"\n\nFor a moment, Kat felt almost pampered, but she knew that wouldn't last. ",
"She had to become \"one of the guys\" to make this mission work. ",
"She had made up her mind about one thing: She was going to be so damn tough nobody would question her, and she wasn't going to get herself or anyone else killed on this mission.",
"\n\nA short walk later and she was shown into a building and to an open door. ",
"She stepped inside an office.",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant Garnet, we were just talking about you,\" Murdock said from behind his desk in the eight-by-eight-foot room. ",
"He didn't get up. ",
"Two others were in the room. ",
"She knew one was the other officer in the platoon, DeWitt. ",
"The third was an enlisted man she remembered seeing. ",
"They all wore desert cammies.",
"\n\n\"Good morning, Lieutenant Garnet,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"Good morning,\" she said, trying to keep her voice even, neutral.",
"\n\n\"One suggestion, Kat. ",
"While we're at the base and in training, we all wear our rank. ",
"For you it will mean a certain amount of on-base respect, and some protection. ",
"The regular Navy likes to know who is who. ",
"Do you have the bars?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes.\" ",
"She took them out, and DeWitt pinned them on for her.",
"\n\n\"As I said, we've been talking about you, Kat. ",
"You must have figured that out. ",
"Lieutenant DeWitt has been assigned as your personal trainer. ",
"He'll turn you into a SEAL so fast you'll wonder why you run those marathons.\"",
"\n\nHe handed her an H&K MP-5SD. ",
"It was almost two feet long and weighed a ton. ",
"She reconsidered—maybe five or six pounds.",
"\n\n\"This is called an MP-5. ",
"It's a Heckler & Koch submachine gun. ",
"It can be set for single-round, three-round fire, or fully automatic. ",
"Don't be afraid of it. ",
"This weapon is going to be your constant companion. ",
"You'll work with it, shoot it, swim with it, hike with it, sleep with it if you want to.",
"\n\n\"The first priority for you is to learn to fire this weapon, to get good with it so you can hit what you aim at. ",
"This is a form of insurance for you, and for the rest of the SEALs who will be with you. ",
"That's first up for you this morning—lots of weapons training, and live-round firing. ",
"DeWitt.\"",
"\n\n\"Right this way, Kat. ",
"We've got packs waiting.\" ",
"They left the office and picked up backpacks.",
"\n\n\"Usually we don't use these on a mission, they're for training. ",
"Oh, carry that weapon in both hands with the muzzle facing left at a forty-five-degree angle across your chest. ",
"Easiest way to carry it, and it's ready to use in a half a second.\"",
"\n\nShe lifted the pack.",
"\n\n\"Only ten pounds, Kat. ",
"Mostly ammo. ",
"Want to get you started off easy.\"",
"\n\nShe slipped into the pack, adjusted the straps, and held the submachine gun the way she had been told.",
"\n\nThey walked away from the buildings, through a gate and onto the sand. ",
"A sand dune had been dozered up to replace the sand ripped out by winter storms. ",
"They went down to the hard sand along the water and turned south.",
"\n\n\"We've got about three miles down to a spot we use for live firing. ",
"Since time is important, we'll run. ",
"How about a six-minutes-a-mile pace.\"",
"\n\n\"That I know about,\" Kat said. ",
"She had resolved to talk as little as possible, to record everything, and to remember everything. ",
"She started off at the six-minutes-a-mile pace, and was soon glad it wasn't a five-minute mile he wanted. ",
"The pack bounced and jolted on her back until she worked out a slightly different stride to move with its sliding motion.",
"\n\nDeWitt looked at her and smiled. \"",
"Yes, you know what a six-minutes-a-mile pace is. ",
"Can you do that for twenty-six miles?\"",
"\n\n\"Not with this pack on, for damn sure.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt grinned. \"",
"Good, you're human, after all.\"",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later they stopped at a twenty-foot-high sand dune with grass and shrubs growing on the top. ",
"The face of it had been bulldozed out almost vertical to set up a safe twenty-yard shooting range. ",
"DeWitt got down to business.",
"\n\n\"At this point we don't care if you can field strip the MP-5 or not. ",
"All we want you to be able to do is shoot it, and hit what you're aiming at. ",
"That's our job this morning. ",
"This weapon has a folding stock so you can hold it close or, if you have time, pull out the stock for a better aim. ",
"It has a thirty-round magazine, and will fire single-shot, three-round bursts, or fully automatic. ",
"However, we like to think that SEALs are better shots than to have to hose down a spot with thirty rounds to hit one man.\"",
"\n\nHe watched her. ",
"She had a slight frown, and seemed to be memorizing everything he said.",
"\n\n\"Understand yesterday you fired a weapon for the first time. ",
"First a forty-five pistol, and then the G-eleven. ",
"This isn't quite so hot as the G-eleven. ",
"But it will do the job. ",
"Now, let's do some dry firing for position.\"",
"\n\nBack in the office of Third Platoon, Murdock had tried again to lay out a training schedule. ",
"He and DeWitt had worked over it since seven that morning, and it still didn't look right.",
"\n\n\"This whole thing might be useless if Stroh says we have only ten days to get on that plane,\" Jaybird Sterling said.",
"\n\n\"Not a chance. ",
"Stroh saw how serious I was. ",
"I'll call the President direct if I have to. ",
"No sense slaughtering a whole platoon and still not get the mission accomplished. ",
"We'd just show our hand, and the Arabs could throw a division of troops around wherever the factory is and make it impossible for any outfit to get in there.\"",
"\n\n\"So, we keep the same sequence for Kat: weapons, fitness, water training and rebreather, then jumping?\"",
"\n\n\"Still looks the best. ",
"We can modify it as we go along. ",
"After her individual training, we still need two weeks to work her in with the rest of the troops.\"",
"\n\n\"At least. ",
"In our combat formation, where does she walk?\" ",
"Sterling asked.",
"\n\n\"With our squad. ",
"Lampedusa out front, then me, then Holt with the radio. ",
"You're behind Holt and right in back of you is Kat. ",
"You'll baby-sit her.\"",
"\n\n\"Figures. ",
"By the time Mr. DeWitt gets her trained, I hope to hell she'll be able to work right along with the rest of us.\"",
"\n\n\"To be prayed for. ",
"Now for the rest of the troops. ",
"Get them up and ready—we're hitting the obstacle course. ",
"No tadpoles over there this morning. ",
"Every man gets timed. ",
"Anybody who doesn't do it in ten minutes, drops, and does a hundred pushups. ",
"Ten minutes later he does the course again—until he's under ten. ",
"I'm the first one out of the chute.\"",
"\n\nTwo hours later, all but two of the men of Third Platoon had done the beast of an obstacle course in under ten minutes. ",
"Those two ran it again. ",
"This isn't any ordinary course. ",
"It includes the usual barriers, plus a twenty-foot vertical wall climb, a go up and down a sixty-foot-high cargo net, a rope climb, a shinny up a sixty-foot tower, a slide down from it on a rope, the stump jump, parallel bars, a rope climb up a wall, a thirty-foot barbed-wire crawl, the weaver, a rope bridge, the log stack, the five vaults, and the swing rope combo. ",
"When the men finish, they are told their time, then drop, and do twenty push-ups.",
"\n\nMurdock gave the last two men through the obstacles a five-minute break, then he stood.",
"\n\n\"Gentlemen, let's go for a little run.\"",
"\n\nThey hit the hard sand and ran south for a mile at a seven-minute pace, then moved into the soft sand and did another mile. ",
"When they were two miles from the gate, Murdock turned them around.",
"\n\n\"Too damn hot out here today,\" he said. ",
"He led the twin line of SEALs into the surf, running, splashing along at the seven-minutes-per-mile pace in sometimes wet sand, sometimes a foot of swirling ocean water, depending on when the waves broke.",
"\n\nWithin two minutes the SEALs were soaked to the skin from head to toe.",
"\n\nMurdock watched the men as he ran backwards. ",
"Yes, they were doing it, holding up. ",
"The three new men had settled into their places now that they knew an assignment was coming up. ",
"His wounded troops were responding as well. ",
"In two weeks they would all be hard and fit, and ready to try something new: like working with a civilian woman on a mission where the smallest misstep could mean death to yourself, and some of your fellow SEALs.",
"\n\nIt was entirely new territory. ",
"No woman had ever participated in a SEAL covert operation before.",
"\n\n* * *\n\nBy 0900, Kat's right shoulder was sore from firing the submachine gun. ",
"She had lost count how many 30-round magazines she had burned up. ",
"She liked the three-round burst. ",
"Only twice had she fired it on full auto. ",
"In two bursts she emptied a full magazine.",
"\n\n\"All right, Kat. ",
"You have a full mag. ",
"We're hiking along this trail. ",
"I'll be behind you. ",
"Without warning we start taking enemy fire from the left. ",
"I'll say 'Fire from the left!' ",
"When I shout that, you drop to your stomach, have the MP-5 up, and return fire into the dune. ",
"Use up the magazine with three-round bursts. ",
"Got it?\"",
"\n\nKat nodded.",
"\n\nThey moved back to the start of the range and began walking across the face of the big dune. ",
"DeWitt waited until they were almost across the mouth of the range before he called out.",
"\n\nKat dropped to her stomach, broke her fall with her elbows, aimed, and fired at the carved-out sand dune within three seconds. ",
"She fired all thirty rounds, ejected the empty magazine, slammed in a new one, and worked the slide to push a round into the firing chamber the way DeWitt had showed her.",
"\n\n\"Cease fire,\" DeWitt said. ",
"He squatted beside her. \"",
"Yes, Kat. ",
"Good. ",
"I didn't even tell you to change magazines, but that's a basic. ",
"In any firefight you keep a loaded magazine in your weapon at all times. ",
"If you can change from a partly used one to a full one, do that. ",
"Never get caught with an empty magazine, or you and half the platoon could be dead.\"",
"\n\n\"Got it,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nThey did the firing on command six more times, three from each side so she learned how to twist her body to return fire to the right. ",
"Each time she did it quickly and the right way.",
"\n\nDeWitt sat down across from her and stretched out his legs. ",
"He watched her. ",
"She looked at him.",
"\n\n\"What?\"",
"\n\n\"Nothing. ",
"It's break time. ",
"In your pack is a canteen. ",
"I filled it with Coke and ice cubes before we left the Grinder. ",
"Strongest thing we have on base.\"",
"\n\nA grin flashed across her face as she grabbed the canteen and drank. ",
"She smiled. \"",
"Oh, yes, I needed this. ",
"Like Navy grog of old.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, I know you have a Ph.D. in physics. ",
"Any minors like law?\"",
"\n\n\"How did you know? ",
"I went into prelaw for two years, then switched.\"",
"\n\n\"How did I know? ",
"You have a sharp analytical mind, I'd guess. ",
"What I've seen this morning is that I don't have to tell you or explain anything to you twice. ",
"You listen, you see, you learn, you memorize I'd bet, and then you do. ",
"Traits of a good trial lawyer. ",
"I had prelaw and then a year of law school before I went to the Academy.\"",
"\n\n\"Still happy with your choice?\"",
"\n\n\"Remarkably. ",
"I'm so Navy that it hurts sometimes.\"",
"\n\nShe nodded. \"",
"I can see that, DeWitt.\"",
"\n\nThey worked on the canteens of Coke.",
"\n\n\"What's next?\" ",
"Kat asked.",
"\n\n\"Easy, we have all day. ",
"You seem determined.\"",
"\n\n\"I didn't really want this job. ",
"They told me I was the best person to do it. ",
"Now that I'm into it, I'm determined not to get anybody killed, and to get in and out, and stay alive myself.\"",
"\n\n\"That's exactly our plan. ",
"So, you ready to work with a pistol?\"",
"\n\n\"I'll be carrying one besides the MP-5?\"",
"\n\n\"Right, we all have at least two weapons. ",
"Some of the guys also have a hideout, a little twenty-two or a thirty-two.\"",
"\n\nHe reached in his pack, and took out a pistol. ",
"DeWitt gave it to her. \"",
"This is an H&K P7. ",
"It fires a nine-millimeter round and holds eight of them in the magazine in the handle. ",
"It doesn't have the hitting power that the forty-five you shot yesterday does. ",
"But neither does it have the weight or the recoil.\"",
"\n\nShe held it, careful to keep the muzzle pointing down-range.",
"\n\n\"One interesting feature on this weapon is that it has no safety. ",
"Most pistols have a safety. ",
"You can't just draw and fire like in the old westerns. ",
"You have to push off the safety, then fire.",
"\n\n\"This pistol has a unique grip catch in the front edge of the butt. ",
"When your hand grips this, it engages the trigger with the cocking and firing mechanism. ",
"That all means that to fire the weapon you simply grip the handle and pull the trigger. ",
"If you drop it, the weapon's grip catch isn't engaged, so it can't go off accidentally.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt stood. \"",
"Give it a try. ",
"It's loaded.\"",
"\n\nShe stood, aimed at the sand dune, and pulled the trigger. ",
"Nothing happened.",
"\n\n\"That's an automatic,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"First you need to pull the slide back like you probably did on the forty-five. ",
"You need to do this on any automatic just after loading an empty weapon with a fresh magazine.\"",
"\n\n\"Right,\" she said. ",
"She pulled back the slide and let it snap forward, then lifted the weapon, gripped the handle, and squeezed the trigger. ",
"It fired. ",
"She nodded. ",
"Aimed again, and fired. ",
"Soon the 8-round magazine was empty and the slide stayed open.",
"\n\nDeWitt handed her a full magazine. \"",
"How do I get the empty one out?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"The magazine catch is at the left side of the butt, behind the trigger. ",
"Push it and the magazine drops out. ",
"Slide in the new one.\"",
"\n\n\"Then I pull the slide back to chamber a round. ",
"Got it.\"",
"\n\n\"Now hold your fire while I set up some man-sized targets.\" ",
"He went to the face of the sand dune, pulled six targets from a closed wooden box, and leaned them against the back of the carved-out sand.",
"\n\nBack beside her, he motioned at the targets twenty yards away.",
"\n\n\"This is a common target distance, twenty yards. ",
"That's sixty feet, three times as far as the Old West gunmen liked to be for a gunfight. ",
"Twenty feet was plenty for those old six-guns.",
"\n\n\"We'll move up to ten yards and give you a try. ",
"No weapon is any good if you can't hit what you're aiming at. ",
"Anyone we start shooting at won't be afraid of the sound. ",
"It'll take hot lead to discourage him. ",
"We use the point-and-shoot technique with pistols and handguns. ",
"It works.",
"\n\n\"Just push out your finger and point at something. ",
"You'll do the same thing with the H&K in your hand. ",
"When you are pointing at your target, pull the trigger. ",
"Give it a try on the first target. ",
"Hold the pistol at your side. ",
"Then lift your hand almost shoulder high and point at the target. ",
"When you're on target, squeeze the trigger.\"",
"\n\nKat did. ",
"The first two shots hit the first target. ",
"Then she missed three, and the last three she hit.",
"\n\n\"Yes,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\nThey fired forty rounds through the P-7 then tested two other handguns, both with 14-round magazines. ",
"Kit liked the H&K P-7, without a safety to worry about.",
"\n\nThey packed up, finished the canteens of rapidly warming Coke, and cleaned up the brass from the rounds they had fired. ",
"Then they headed back down the beach.",
"\n\n\"Packs are a lot lighter this time,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nThey ran back the three miles to the Grinder and dropped into chairs in Murdock's office.",
"\n\n\"Boots,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"How do they feel?\"",
"\n\n\"Blisters,\" Kat said. \"",
"They're half a size too big. ",
"I need eight-and-a-halfs instead of nines.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm on it,\" Jaybird Sterling said. \"",
"I'll pick up a pair this afternoon.\"",
"\n\n\"How's the shooting eye?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\nKat shrugged and pointed to DeWitt.",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Point and shoot with the pistol was right on. ",
"Kat likes the H&K P-7. ",
"We'll keep at it. ",
"The MP-5 is coming along. ",
"Didn't do much on accuracy. ",
"Down the road. ",
"What about longer guns? ",
"We still have that friendly rancher up by Boulevard?\"",
"\n\n\"Last time I knew,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"Think Kat and I'll slip up there in the morning for some work on the long guns. ",
"Kat, we want you to be able to fire any weapon we carry in an emergency. ",
"Not that you have to qualify, but you should be familiar enough to pick up one and use it if you lose yours or you run out of rounds.\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds reasonable. ",
"What's next?\"",
"\n\nDeWitt looked at Murdock.",
"\n\n\"A run?\"",
"\n\n\"We did six miles already,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"What about the obstacle course? ",
"I'd like to try it.\"",
"\n\n\"Not on your agenda,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"You don't think I can do it,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"Might be a good welcome to the SEALs,\" he said. \"",
"Yes, Kat, I'll lead you on a tour of the obstacle course. ",
"Any one of the stops you don't want to try will be fine.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll do the whole course. ",
"Let's go.\"",
"\n_7_\n\n# Friday, October 21\n\n## 2242 hours \nTehran, Iran\n\nGeorge Imhoff sat in the second room of the small apartment and tried to make sense out of what went on between the huge fat American and the Iranian lens grinder. ",
"George belched and his stomach growled at him. ",
"He hadn't had anything to eat since that morning. ",
"The four warm French beers hadn't helped any. ",
"He had no idea where Tauksaun, the huge one, found French beer in Tehran.",
"\n\nGeorge looked at Yasmeen for the hundredth time and lifted his brows. ",
"They sat near the door that had been opened three inches so they could see, and Yasmeen could hear. ",
"Most of the conversation was in Farsi.",
"\n\n\"They still talk about the soccer match. ",
"Each time Tauksaun brings up the lens grinding, the man changes the topic.\"",
"\n\nGeorge swore softly, and watched Yasmeen's eyes light up. ",
"She seemed to be excited by the dirty words, but he didn't have time for that now. ",
"He slipped the forty-five from his pocket and checked the magazine. ",
"Full. ",
"He held it in his right hand and reached for the door.",
"\n\n\"No,\" Yasmeen said softly.",
"\n\n\"Yes, I don't have time for this shit. ",
"Past time for some action.\" ",
"He stepped through the door and cleared his throat. ",
"Both men near the bed looked at him. ",
"Tauksaun shook his head when he saw the weapon.",
"\n\nGeorge didn't hesitate. ",
"He pulled the forty-five's slide back and let it snap forward, slamming a round into the firing chamber. ",
"He carried the pistol low as he walked up to the Iranian.",
"\n\n\"Tell him the bullshit is over. ",
"Do it, Tauksaun.\"",
"\n\nThe huge man tried to roll to one side a little to ease the pressure on his hips. ",
"He sighed, then stuttered out some Farsi.",
"\n\nGeorge brought the forty-five up to aim at the lens grinder's chest.",
"\n\n\"Now, tell him I want to know exactly where he was taken to do the grinding work on the polished steel. ",
"Exactly. ",
"None of this blindfolded crap.\"",
"\n\nGeorge waited as the translation came. ",
"Then he put the pistol's muzzle against the lens grinder's chest, directly over his heart.",
"\n\nThe Iranian was thin, small, with a full dark beard and bushy brows. ",
"He slumped back toward the bed and George moved with him, increasing the pressure of the forty-five. ",
"The Iranian looked up with black eyes that showed stark fear.",
"\n\nHe chattered once, and paused, then came out with a flood of Farsi.",
"\n\nGeorge waited.",
"\n\nTauksaun nodded. \"",
"He says he knows they went to the southern port city of Chah Bahar. ",
"From there they drove north by truck into the mountains on a good gravel road. ",
"He says they never got all the way through the mountains into the great plain. ",
"So the spot must be in the mountains.\"",
"\n\n\"Could he find the place again?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\nWhen the Iranian heard the translation, he looked at George and shook his head.",
"\n\nThe translation came that they had been kept in covered trucks all the way from the port. ",
"He only knew they went north. ",
"They did not go into Pakistan.",
"\n\nThe questioning went on.",
"\n\nThe man had no idea what kind of project he had worked on. ",
"He was grinding some kind of metal. ",
"He never saw a finished product. ",
"He and ten others had worked around the clock on twelve-hour shifts.",
"\n\nYes, they had completed the project and then were sent home. ",
"Yes, they each received wages, and a bonus of 210,000 rials. ",
"That would be about seventy dollars, not a lot of money for a lens grinder.",
"\n\n\"That's all he knows, CIA agent,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"I don't appreciate your use of the weapon in my house. ",
"It wasn't needed.\"",
"\n\n\"It worked, nobody got hurt.\"",
"\n\n\"So far,\" Tauksaun said. ",
"He spoke with the lens grinder for a few moments, then Tiny came. ",
"They put a blindfold around the small man's eyes, and Tiny led him out the front door.",
"\n\nIt would take Tiny a half hour to get the man out of the area and safely away. ",
"Tauksaun didn't talk to George. ",
"He tried to find some American music on his short-band radio. ",
"He got mostly static, then located an American station on one of the Air Force bases in Germany. ",
"The music came through loud and clear.",
"\n\nThe Andrews sisters had just finished a golden oldie, when Tiny came in. ",
"She closed the door, then tried to turn, but staggered a step before she fell to the floor. ",
"George went down beside her and held her head.",
"\n\nHer eyes rolled for a moment, then steadied in place.",
"\n\nBlood seeped from her mouth.",
"\n\n\"Police,\" she whispered in English, then passed out. ",
"George carried her to a pallet beside the floor bed and stretched her out. ",
"He had tears in his eyes. ",
"Yasmeen knelt beside Tiny on the pallet, making a quick examination.",
"\n\n\"She's been shot in the chest,\" Yasmeen said. \"",
"Probably hit one lung, and for sure lots of internal bleeding. ",
"If she doesn't get to a hospital, she'll die.\"",
"\n\n\"No hospital,\" Tauksaun said. \"",
"The police would recognize her and let her die there. ",
"Tiny isn't exactly unknown to the authorities. ",
"This is all on your head, CIA man.\"",
"\n\nHe stared at Tiny for a moment and blinked rapidly. ",
"He nodded to himself, and then used the telephone. ",
"He spoke quickly in English and Farsi, then hung up.",
"\n\n\"A friend, a nurse, will be here quickly. ",
"Before she comes, you two must go. ",
"Now.\"",
"\n\n\"Can I help?\" ",
"Yasmeen asked.",
"\n\nTauksaun watched her; his eyes seemed to narrow as a frown tainted his round face. \"",
"Perhaps. ",
"Your father is wealthy. ",
"We always need money. ",
"Yes, you can help. ",
"Twenty million rials would be good. ",
"That's only a little over sixty-six hundred dollars, George, don't look so surprised.\" ",
"He rolled, and sat up straighter with a great effort.",
"\n\n\"Now both of you out of here with your radio and your American dollars that could get us all shot on sight. ",
"The Secret Police will be here shortly. ",
"Somebody will always rat on me for a few thousand rials. ",
"Out.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks for the help,\" George said. ",
"He picked up the radio and put it away in his shoulder bag, then pocketed the forty-five after making sure the safety was on.",
"\n\n\"No thanks needed. ",
"I just hope you haven't got me killed.\"",
"\n\nYasmeen and George went out the front door and hurried down the street. ",
"George could almost smell the Secret Police coming. ",
"He frowned as they rushed along. ",
"He had a little more information, but not nearly what the Company demanded. ",
"How the hell was he going to find out anything else without going into the region? ",
"The idea of a small plane was good, but he'd have no chance at all renting such a plane down in that area. ",
"There might not even be an airfield down there. ",
"He didn't know that much about Iran.",
"\n\nThey saw a military vehicle moving down the street toward them. ",
"It was still two blocks away. ",
"Yasmeen pulled at his arm, and they drifted into an alley, then ran full speed to the next street. ",
"Yasmeen looked both ways, then they darted across the street into the alley, and ran through it until they both were panting so hard they had to stop. ",
"They leaned against a wall.",
"\n\n\"I think we got away from them,\" George said.",
"\n\nYasmeen scowled at him, her eyes almost closed. \"",
"I hope nothing happens to Tauksaun. ",
"He's a friend. ",
"He helps with the protest movement.\"",
"\n\nGeorge shook his head. \"",
"Tauksaun will come out smelling like a bunch of violets. ",
"He's a survivor. ",
"Not even the Secret Police will be able to hurt him.\"",
"\n\n\"What are you going to do now?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"Not the faintest.\"",
"\n\n\"Come to our house. ",
"It's big and I'll tell Papa that you're teaching me better English. ",
"He wants me to be good in English. ",
"But we can't even touch at my home. ",
"You understand. ",
"Iranian women aren't that free. ",
"We have tremendously strict rules.\"",
"\n\n\"You mean, we can't make love in your father's house?\"",
"\n\n\"He'd chop off your head if he caught us.\"",
"\n\nGeorge chuckled. \"",
"I think I can keep my hands off you. ",
"Which way do we go?\"",
"\n\nBefore they could move, a man jolted around the corner twenty yards from them and shouted in Farsi for them to put up their hands.",
"\n\n\"Run,\" Yasmeen barked. ",
"She went right, he went left. ",
"The Secret Policeman with the submachine gun tracked his best target and fired a 6-round burst. ",
"Four of the slugs caught Yasmeen in the back and she stumbled, tried to call out, and pitched into the dirt. ",
"Yasmeen died before she hit the ground, where her face dug a foot-long furrow in the dust and garbage of the Tehran back alley.",
"\n\nBefore the Secret Policeman could turn his weapon on the second person, George had sprinted around the corner to safety. ",
"He ran hard down the block to the next alley and surged into it. ",
"He paused. ",
"No one chased him. ",
"George panted. ",
"He had to get more exercise and stay in shape.",
"\n\nHe'd seen Yasmeen fall. ",
"Damn them. ",
"She was dead or as good as dead by now. ",
"Which left him absolutely at the end of his string of contacts. ",
"He was running in fucking hostile Tehran. ",
"The Secret Police were hunting him. ",
"He had lost his luggage, all of his clothes, and personal gear. ",
"He had only his \"vitals\" in the shoulder bag. ",
"He had a deadline of six days to find out for sure where the Iranian nuclear manufacturing site was situated. ",
"How in the hell was he going to do that?",
"\n_8_\n\n# Saturday, October 22\n\n## 1622 hours \nSEAL training base \nCoronado, California\n\nBy the time Murdock and Kat returned from the obstacle course, it was nearly 1700. ",
"Murdock dropped in his chair, and looked at DeWitt and Jaybird.",
"\n\n\"So, how did Kat do?\" ",
"Jaybird asked.",
"\n\nKat came in the door standing as tall as she could, and grinned. \"",
"I did it all except the ten-foot wall.\"",
"\n\n\"That takes good upper body strength,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"Hey, I'm a long-distance swimmer, remember.\"",
"\n\n\"Any word from Don Stroh on our request for more time?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\nDeWitt shook his head. \"",
"Not a word, which might be good news. ",
"He should be fighting for those four more weeks.\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked at the chart in front of him. ",
"He passed it to Kat.",
"\n\n\"Your schedule. ",
"First things first in case we get short sheeted. ",
"Weapons training the next two days. ",
"Then two days of parachute jumping. ",
"Can't see any other way we can get into Iran fast and quietly. ",
"Then comes rebreather work in the ocean, and some underwater techniques. ",
"Last we'll get you working in the first squad, so you'll know who does what and when.\"",
"\n\nThe phone rang.",
"\n\nMurdock picked it up.",
"\n\n\"Third Platoon, SEAL Team Seven. ",
"Murdock.\"",
"\n\n\"Stroh here. ",
"Murdock, you've got friends in high places. ",
"You get your four weeks. ",
"State is unhappy, but my boss said we don't have the target tied down for you yet. ",
"That has to come first.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll make good use of the time.\"",
"\n\n\"We're having another small problem. ",
"Lost our local in Tehran. ",
"We might need some fast muscle in that area and I'm touting the idea of sending in two of your men to help protect and cover our sales representative there. ",
"If he can't pinpoint the target, the whole operation is off.\"",
"\n\n\"Two men? ",
"To serve as backup and some firepower? ",
"Remember, we're action guys, not your average Company spook.\"",
"\n\n\"Our man's still there—he'll lead the way and do the digging, but he's lost his cover and been chased twice now. ",
"He needs some backup with some firepower. ",
"Nothing definite that we can drop two men in. ",
"We'll know by Monday. ",
"Pick out two men who can use a radio and who can take care of themselves. ",
"Anybody speaking Arabic or Farsi would be helpful.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh hell yes, half our guys speak Farsi. ",
"Anything else?\"",
"\n\n\"No. ",
"You've got four weeks, and hang loose. ",
"How is Kat doing?\"",
"\n\n\"She just came back from the range and the obstacle course. ",
"She's looking good, for a Ph.D.\"\n\n\"Remember, she has a round-trip ticket to Iran. ",
"You'll be hearing.\"",
"\n\nThey hung up.",
"\n\n\"So, we got our four weeks?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\n\"We have. ",
"They still haven't located the target. ",
"Might need some help in Tehran. ",
"Soon you guys will be taking a pleasure cruise into Iran.\"",
"\n\n\"Iran?\" ",
"Jaybird said. \"",
"Already they don't like us there.\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"Jaybird, find out if any of our guys speak Arabic or Farsi.\"",
"\n\n\"Should be in the personnel files.\" ",
"He left the office.",
"\n\nMurdock looked at Kat and DeWitt. \"",
"We've got a job to do, so let's revise that training schedule. ",
"Kat, we'll want you to check it out and see how fast we can push you.\" ",
"He watched as she flexed her shoulders.",
"\n\n\"Your arms and shoulders getting sore?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah. ",
"I haven't been swimming enough last few weeks.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll take care of that. ",
"Of course, you'll be swimming in your cammies most of the time and with your boots on. ",
"It's harder.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll start tomorrow. ",
"Now, where's that training schedule?\"",
"\n\nJaybird came back in. \"",
"Found a guy who speaks Farsi—Colt Franklin, one of the new guys.\"",
"\n\n\"Who else can run a SATCOM besides Holt?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Joe Douglas, second squad.\"",
"\n\n\"Get Franklin and Douglas in here now. ",
"We've got something coming up.\"",
"\n\nKat looked up from the training schedule on Murdock's desk. \"",
"I want to do a mile swim and a three-mile run every day besides the other training. ",
"Unless it doesn't fit in.\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"Young lady, we'll try to arrange it. ",
"No solo swimming. ",
"You'll have to have a buddy. ",
"We don't want to lose you to a Great White.\"",
"\n\n\"I'd like to take that swim now, Lieutenant Murdock. ",
"Who wants to go with me?\"",
"\n\n\"Now?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Unless it interferes with your schedule, Lieutenant.\"",
"\n\nMurdock lifted his brows, and pointed at his platoon chief. \"",
"Jaybird, take Kat on the one-mile course on the bay side. ",
"Then see that she gets to her quarters.\"",
"\n\n\"Now, sir?\" ",
"Jaybird said, surprised.",
"\n\n\"Now, sailor. ",
"A SEAL is always ready for the unexpected.\"",
"\n\nJaybird snapped a salute at his commanding officer. ",
"Murdock was so surprised to see it, that he only half returned it.",
"\n\n\"Get out of here, Jaybird.\"",
"\n\nWhen they left, DeWitt concentrated on the schedule a moment. \"",
"Murdock, I think Kat is going to fit in nicely. ",
"She's tough as old leather, has lots of heart, and is a worker. ",
"No wonder the brass wanted her along. ",
"She'll do a lot better than most of the men the AEC could have sent us.\"",
"\n\n\"Agreed. ",
"But she's still a civilian. ",
"We can't get her SEAL trained in four weeks, so there will be a lot of chances to fuck up. ",
"Our job is to make damn sure we get her into the target with all of her bodily parts working.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt checked his watch and moved toward the door. \"",
"Thanks for sending Jaybird on that swim. ",
"I didn't want to be late getting home tonight. ",
"Time I tell Milly about Kat. ",
"Last night I just told her the person was a civilian. ",
"Sure you don't want to come over for dinner?\"",
"\n\nMurdock waved. \"",
"Count me out. ",
"I hate bloodshed among the civilian population. ",
"Let's hope Milly is tremendously understanding. ",
"Starting tomorrow, you'll be with Kat twelve to fourteen hours a day. ",
"Be sure Milly understands that.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, easy. ",
"Maybe I'll just sleep on base tonight.\"",
"\n\n\"Sure you will.\"",
"\n\n\"Right, I better get home and face the firing squad.\"",
"\n\n\"Won't be that bad. ",
"We'll have Doc Ellsworth ready with his medical kit for you first thing in the morning.\"",
"\n\nAt the end of the Navy Amphibious Base pier extending into San Diego Bay, Jaybird looked at Kat.",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant, you have anything in your pockets you don't want to get wet?\"",
"\n\n\"Just have my I.D., which is sealed. ",
"I'm ready when you are.\"",
"\n\n\"Let's do it.\"",
"\n\nThey dove into the bay and both gasped at the coolness of the October water. ",
"Jaybird did his famous side stroke until he saw Kat surface from her shallow dive and strike out with a strong crawl. ",
"He kicked into one himself, and caught up and stayed with her. ",
"She went out much faster than the usual SEAL crawl, but he didn't say anything.",
"\n\n\"We'll go east to that first point of land,\" he called. ",
"She nodded, and angled to the right.",
"\n\nFive minutes later, Jaybird saw that he was falling behind. ",
"Kat's strong crawl stroke had picked up in tempo, and she pulled away from him.",
"\n\nWhen she came to the turnaround down from the point, she stopped and treaded water waiting for him to catch up.",
"\n\n\"This the turnaround?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\nJaybird said it was, and she kicked out for the pier.",
"\n\nBy the time Kat went up the ladder to the pier they had left, she was three minutes ahead of Jaybird. ",
"He came up the ladder puffing. ",
"He squeezed water out of his cammies, and nodded.",
"\n\n\"Lady, you won't have any trouble keeping up if we have to take a swim getting in or out of country over there.\"",
"\n\n\"Good, Jaybird. ",
"Next time maybe we can try the ocean side.\"",
"\n\nEd DeWitt made it home ten minutes before Milly came from her job as a computer network analyst at Deltron Electronics. ",
"She was an expert in her field, and was making a salary twice what Ed made even counting his housing, food, and uniform allowance.",
"\n\nHe checked the menu written out on a pad on the refrigerator door. ",
"They tried to specialize in healthy yet quick-to-fix meals. ",
"Tonight it was Spanish rice, a green salad, French cut green beans, and rolls. ",
"Whoever got home first always started dinner cooking. ",
"Sometimes it was murder for Milly to get across the Coronado Bay Bridge from San Diego. ",
"Tonight, DeWitt thought, must be one of those times.",
"\n\nHe had the Spanish rice simmering when Milly came in the door.",
"\n\n\"Don't ask,\" she said, tossing her purse on the kitchen table and dropping into a chair. \"",
"Everything went wrong. ",
"I've never seen such a foul-up. ",
"I never get the little problems, just the ones nobody else knows how to fix.\"",
"\n\nHe kissed her and put his arms around her, chair and all. \"",
"Bet you solved the problem in a rush. ",
"Hey, you have to earn the big bucks they pay you.\"",
"\n\nShe sighed, and kissed him back. \"",
"I guess. ",
"Sometimes I just wish that I could stay home and raise babies. ",
"There, I said it. ",
"My nesting instincts are high right now.\" ",
"She gently moved his arms and went to the stove.",
"\n\n\"Smells good. ",
"Spanish rice always is great the first day, but a bummer for warming up. ",
"I wonder why.\"",
"\n\nShe turned. \"",
"Hey, I'm sorry. ",
"Me, me, me. ",
"So how was your day? ",
"How is that new civilian working out?\"",
"\n\n\"Need to talk to you about that.\" ",
"He led her back to a chair and pulled one up facing her. ",
"He sat down.",
"\n\n\"Hey, you look serious. ",
"You proposing or something?\"",
"\n\n\"Something, yes. ",
"I never tell you much about what I'm doing, or where we go. ",
"I can't. ",
"This time I've got to. ",
"Top secret—not even your best friend can find out about this. ",
"Our civilian is from the AEC or some such group. ",
"This person is an expert at dismantling nuclear warheads and bombs. ",
"This person is a woman.\"",
"\n\nHe stopped, and watched her. ",
"Milly frowned. \"",
"You mean the CIA is sending a woman with you on your next mission to dismantle some atomic warheads or bombs?\"",
"\n\n\"Exactly right.\"",
"\n\n\"No woman can take all the physical punishment you guys go through. ",
"I've seen you black and blue with bruises from head to foot. ",
"I've watched your bones knit back together and changed bandages on your bullet wounds. ",
"They must be crazy sending a woman in with you.\"",
"\n\n\"That's what we thought. ",
"The problem is the President said that this woman is going. ",
"We can't really get around an order from our Commander in Chief.\"",
"\n\nMilly eyed him seriously, then her face melded into a small frown. \"",
"Have you met this woman?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, she's on base, began training this morning.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm curious. ",
"What's she like?\"",
"\n\nHe gave a quick description of Kat.",
"\n\n\"Yes, yes, but is she pretty? ",
"You said she was about thirty. ",
"Is she pretty?\"",
"\n\n\"Pretty? ",
"A vague term. ",
"She's attractive, fit, seems to have a good attitude. ",
"Did I tell you she's a Ph.D. in nuclear physics?\"",
"\n\n\"No. ",
"How can she hold up on your long marches, your swims? ",
"Can she parachute?\"",
"\n\n\"She won the second Hawaiian Iron-Man woman's triathlon—the swim, bike riding, and marathon. ",
"Yes, she's fit and strong.\"",
"\n\n\"I just don't understand why they would pick a woman for this job.\"",
"\n\n\"Evidently she was the best person to get the work done.\"",
"\n\n\"So you got the job of training her in SEAL techniques.\"",
"\n\n\"Afraid so. ",
"We were on the small arms range this morning. ",
"We ran both ways, six miles round trip. ",
"She never faltered.\"",
"\n\nTears welled in Milly's eyes. ",
"They spilled over. \"",
"You want me to move out?\"",
"\n\n\"Milly, of course not. ",
"Why on earth would I want that? ",
"She's not personal. ",
"It's my job to train her well enough so we can get her to the target. ",
"After her work is done, she has to be able to get out of there with us, and not be such a liability that half the platoon gets killed.\"",
"\n\nMilly began sobbing, and reached out and clung to him.",
"\n\n\"Oh, God, not that. ",
"I pray every time you leave me. ",
"I know you're doing something important for our country— but it's so dangerous. ",
"I don't sleep much while you're gone. ",
"Did I ever tell you that? ",
"I'm not sure if I eat anything. ",
"I always lose about ten pounds when you're gone. ",
"Oh, damn, I wasn't ever going to tell you that.\"",
"\n\n\"I didn't know.\" ",
"He took her in his arms and held her.",
"\n\nAfter a while, she stopped crying.",
"\n\n\"I'll be putting in some extra time. ",
"It's my job to teach her how to shoot our weapons, show her what we do, and how we do it. ",
"If I do my job right, then she won't cause any of us to get wounded or worse. ",
"Yes, we'll be baby-sitting her, but unexpected things always happen. ",
"If she can defend herself, so much the better.\"",
"\n\n\"She, she. ",
"Does this woman have a name?\"",
"\n\n\"Katherine Garnet. ",
"She has the temporary rank of full lieutenant and she said to call her Kat.\"",
"\n\n\"How nice.\" ",
"Milly sniffed. \"",
"I'm sorry, Ed, I didn't mean to sound so snide. ",
"She's probably a fine person. ",
"I want you to invite her over to dinner tomorrow night. ",
"If you aren't having any kind of night drills.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll arrange it. ",
"Yes, good idea. ",
"I think you'll like Kat. ",
"Now, I think your marvelous dinner is ready. ",
"May I seat you at the table and serve you?\"",
"\n\nAs they ate, they talked about her work, and the new theater season coming up. ",
"All the while DeWitt remembered what she had said about losing ten pounds while he was gone. ",
"She shouldn't do that. ",
"But who could they trust? ",
"Then he remembered one of the men in his squad, Fernandez, who lived with a woman in Coronado. ",
"He'd talked to him. ",
"Maybe the two women could get together when the platoon was on a mission. ",
"He'd never met the woman. ",
"They would have one huge thing in common. ",
"It might just work. ",
"He'd talk to Fernandez in the morning.",
"\n\nThat night, Milly clung to him. ",
"She had slipped into bed beside him without wearing her usual nightgown. ",
"She kissed him, and put his hands on her, and whispered in his ear.",
"\n\n\"We're going to make love every night from now until you leave.\"",
"\n\nEd laughed softly. \"",
"We're not shipping out for a month yet.\"",
"\n\nMilly nodded. \"",
"Good, I'll keep you so worn out you won't even know that Kat is a woman. ",
"She'll just be another one of the guys you have to train. ",
"Now, roll over. ",
"I want to be on top the first time tonight.\"",
"\n_9_\n\n## Saturday, October 22\n\n## 0214 hours \nTehran, Iran\n\nGeorge Imhoff had struggled with his decision for three hours, as he went from one small cafe to another, nibbling at rolls and drinking the bitter tea. ",
"There was no other way. ",
"He had used up his best prospects. ",
"The British student he was supposed to see that afternoon might be hard to find now.",
"\n\nHe worked his way slowly to the right street and paused in the shadows for five minutes watching it and the surrounding half-block area. ",
"Nothing moved. ",
"No one walked or rode by. ",
"Only one light showed in the whole area. ",
"He moved cautiously to the front of the small building and found the gate where it was supposed to be.",
"\n\nIt was unlatched. ",
"He pushed it inward.",
"\n\nNothing happened.",
"\n\nHe darted quickly through the opening and closed the wooden gate. ",
"A walkway led to the rear of the structure. ",
"It had two stories. ",
"The front of it was some kind of a retail store with windows covered by wooden panels locked in place.",
"\n\nTrust your fellow man and he will trust you.",
"\n\nRight.",
"\n\nGeorge found the rear door and knocked on it three times. ",
"He expected no reaction. ",
"Picking the lock would do no good. ",
"Everyone in this part of the world used locks with steel bars on the inside as well.",
"\n\nTo his surprise the door opened a crack, and a small voice asked him a question. ",
"He caught only one word and that didn't make sense. ",
"He used the code word with hesitation.",
"\n\n\"Armageddon,\" he said.",
"\n\nThere was a pause, then a sucked-in breath.",
"\n\n\"Just a moment,\" the voice said in English.",
"\n\nHe heard movement inside, then the door opened more. \"",
"Not if we can prevent it,\" the countersign came.",
"\n\n\"Thank God,\" George said. ",
"The door opened to a dimly lit interior.",
"\n\n\"Come in, my friend. ",
"Come in. ",
"We have been expecting you. ",
"Things are not going well for us on this adventure.\"",
"\n\nThe tall Iranian man, dressed in work clothes, held out his hand and George shook it.",
"\n\n\"I'm George,\" he said.",
"\n\n\"Call me Peter.\" ",
"The door closed and the two men went into a small room with cushions on the floor and a single light bulb burning in the corner.",
"\n\n\"We know about Shahpur. ",
"His family claimed his body. ",
"Have you eaten? ",
"You need sleep? ",
"What can we do for you?\"",
"\n\nGeorge leaned against the wall. ",
"Suddenly he was tremendously tired. \"",
"Some sleep would be good, but first, do you know my mission here?\"",
"\n\nThe man called Peter shook his head. \"",
"None of us know.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, usually it's better that way. ",
"But now you must know. ",
"I need help in locating a facility. ",
"I have only two more contacts, and I'm afraid one of them has been picked up by the Secret Police already.\"",
"\n\nGeorge told Peter about needing the exact location of the nuclear bomb fabrication plant in southern Iran.",
"\n\nThe tall man sat on one of the cushions on the floor and rubbed his beard. \"",
"From time to time we hear stories. ",
"Nothing solid, no two alike. ",
"It's some marvelous weapon that will make Iran king of the whole Arab world.\"",
"\n\n\"With one or more nuclear bombs, Iran could threaten all of the Arab states, and ensnare them into one giant confederation that could rule all of the near east,\" George said. \"",
"It would disrupt the balance of power and pit the Muslim world against the West.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, yes, it would be even worse than that,\" Peter said.",
"\n\n\"Do you know anyone who might help us locate this facility? ",
"We know it's in the mountains somewhere north of the port city of Chah Bahar.\"",
"\n\n\"That is many hundreds of miles away.\"",
"\n\n\"Do you know anyone who has traveled down there, or used to live there? ",
"Anything we can learn will help.\"",
"\n\n\"I know of no one who could aid us. ",
"Let me talk tomorrow to several friends who will not betray me. ",
"Now it's time for you to sleep.\"",
"\n\n\"First I need to get to your roof. ",
"I must send another radio message. ",
"Don't worry, not the best radio receivers in Tehran could intercept the message and pinpoint it here.\"",
"\n\nPeter led him to the roof, where George set up the small dish antenna, aligned it, and sent off his message in a half-second burst.",
"\n\nThe message said: \"George. ",
"Out of contacts. ",
"Site is in mountains north of Chah Bahar. ",
"Check satellite photos. ",
"Good road to it a must. ",
"Am at sight A. So far not compromised. ",
"Any ideas? ",
"George out.\"",
"\n\nDownstairs, George fell on a floor mattress, and went to sleep in minutes. ",
"Peter carefully checked the contents of the shoulder bag. ",
"There was no money in it—a few personal items, the radio, and a blank notebook and pens.",
"\n\nPeter watched the American for a time, then went to his own pallet. ",
"He would do some talking at the market tomorrow. ",
"If he could tie down the exact location, he could charge the Americans a year's wages. ",
"Peter smiled at the prospect. ",
"If everything worked out right tomorrow, he could be well on his way to achieving his retirement.",
"\n\nAcross town in the Minister of Defense's office, four-star General Reza Ruhollah sat back at his desk, and frowned. ",
"His Secret Police had uncovered something sinister that made him nervous. ",
"They had caught a suspected agent for the United States with more than fifteen hundred U.S. dollars on his person.",
"\n\nHe had tried to talk to, and probably bribe, an engineer who worked in the south on Project Equalizer. ",
"The engineer had told them of the traitor, and they had grabbed him and the money. ",
"When they went to the place where the spy's control was known to be, they were shot at, and whoever had been there escaped.",
"\n\nCould that person have been a U.S. CIA agent? ",
"General Ruhollah pondered it. ",
"There was a good chance. ",
"He stood, paced to the window, and stared out over his beloved Tehran. ",
"Well over seven million people lived here now. ",
"His nation held almost seventy million. ",
"Iran should be leading the Arab world in a once-and-for-all battle to drive the Western powers out of the Middle East.",
"\n\nWhen Project Equalizer was finished, they would have the power to do just that. ",
"It had been difficult. ",
"Iran had no history of such scientific wonders. ",
"Neither did it have the agencies, and the mechanics, to keep such a huge project secret. ",
"Somehow traces of news had leaked out. ",
"He knew the U.S. and Israel had agents in his country trying to gain the critical information they would need to halt or destroy the project.",
"\n\nHe would not permit anything to happen to his facility the way it had near Baghdad, Iraq, in 1981. ",
"There Israeli jet fighters destroyed a nuclear reactor. ",
"Israel claimed the reactor would produce plutonium which could then be used for Iraq's nuclear weapons program already in development. ",
"They had been wrong. ",
"Iraq had no such program, and the Iraqis were too stupid to even try for something so complicated.",
"\n\nThe problem was that Israel got away with the act of war against the traditional power in the Middle East without any world censure. ",
"It would not happen again. ",
"One Israeli agent had been caught and killed in a gun battle late last month. ",
"Now one U.S. agent—true, an Iranian—had been caught and eliminated. ",
"But where was his control, his master from the U.S.?",
"\n\nAn aide came in after knocking. ",
"He was a trusted friend. ",
"He stopped three feet in front of the desk and waited to be recognized. ",
"The Defense Minister turned and nodded at him.",
"\n\n\"General Ruhollah, we have good news. ",
"The huge American we have so long sought has been found. ",
"We haven't brought him here, because he's so big he won't go through the door to his quarters. ",
"But we have questioned him.\"",
"\n\n\"This is the American we have been watching for, the one who supports every wild-eyed student protest, and several small groups agitating for rights for women?\"",
"\n\n\"The same, my General.\"",
"\n\n\"Is he a spy for the United States?\"",
"\n\n\"We don't believe so, my General. ",
"He had no radio, no spy equipment, no code books, that sort of thing.\"",
"\n\n\"What about U.S. currency?\"",
"\n\n\"Only ten dollars U.S. He said his mother sent it to him in a letter. ",
"Not enough to bother with, and U.S. dollars are not illegal in this country.\"",
"\n\n\"On the other hand, Colonel, the U.S. dollar is much sought after by our oilmen, and merchants looking for hard currency. ",
"So, does this huge one have any tie-in with the U.S. spy your men did catch today?\"",
"\n\n\"Not that we know of, my General.\"",
"\n\n\"Very well. ",
"Release the man. ",
"Put a camera in a hidden place and take pictures of everyone who enters or leaves his rooms.\"",
"\n\n\"It shall be done.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah waved the colonel away. ",
"At least they knew where this huge American was now. ",
"He'd heard the man weighed more than six-hundred pounds. ",
"How much must he eat every day to keep up that much weight? ",
"Amazing.",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah took a file out of a locked drawer in his desk and looked over the engineer's last report.",
"\n\nThe machining of the metal similar to stainless steel was well under way. ",
"They still needed blanks for the manufacturing process.",
"\n\nHe looked at some sketches the head engineer had done. ",
"One showed a folded cylinder of plutonium. ",
"Situated around this was a cylinder of beryllium. ",
"This is a very light, stiff metal, which would form an X-ray window, and become a neutron reflector.",
"\n\n\"Beryllium is difficult to machine,\" the engineer wrote. \"",
"We must use cubic boron-nitrate tools. ",
"Anything else, such as carbon or steel tools, will not give satisfactory results. ",
"We still need the powder form of tungsten-rhenium. ",
"We will sinter this into cylindrical segments.\"",
"\n\nThe General stopped. ",
"Sintering, sinter. ",
"What did that mean? ",
"He checked a dictionary. ",
"Sinter: heating matter just hot enough so it will form.",
"\n\n\"The tungsten-rhenium will be used to form a cylinder around the beryllium for density. ",
"Around this cylinder goes our explosive-lens assembly.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah put down the report and rubbed his eyes. ",
"He had never taken science classes at the military academy. ",
"It was enough to learn to read and write, and then study the history of their country, the _military_ history, and then to learn the ways of warfare. ",
"He had been trying to catch up ever since. ",
"Most of the reports by the engineers made no sense to him whatsoever. ",
"He did have two trusted scientists at the university who checked the reports weekly and gave him advice.",
"\n\n\"Why does the project move so slowly?\" ",
"he asked out loud. ",
"He knew that the science, the physics, of a nuclear bomb was no longer a secret. ",
"There were schematics of bombs on the Internet, and papers and manuals telling how to build a crude one.",
"\n\nThey wanted one step up from crude, so it was taking longer. ",
"He dreamed of the day he would have the first operational bomb ready. ",
"He would tell the world about it, then threaten one neighbor with the total destruction of their capital city, if they did not surrender and become a part of the Greater Iranian Islamic Republic. ",
"What a day that would be!",
"\n\nThere would be outrage around the world, but no nation would challenge him with its own nuclear weapons. ",
"He would use his if he had to, and the whole world knew it. ",
"Who would be the first Arab nation to capitulate and join forces with him? ",
"Iraq with its 25 million people? ",
"Maybe Syria with ports on the Mediterranean would be good. ",
"Then Jordan and Saudi Arabia. ",
"Yes!",
"\n\nHe would put together a united nation of over 135 million people! ",
"That would be enough strength so the other world powers would have to recognize him.",
"\n\nIsrael, with only 5 million people, would be a terrible problem. ",
"They never would capitulate. ",
"He might have to waste a bomb on them, or simply ignore them, and in time, bit by bit, drive them all into the sea.",
"\n\nHe stared out the window, and dreamed his dream of great power and wealth. ",
"No one could stop him once he had the might of the nuclear bombs under his control. ",
"No one.",
"\n\nHe looked back at his desk and saw the report on the dead Iranian who had been working for the U.S. Who had his control been? ",
"Where was the American CIA spy who pulled the man's strings? ",
"He had to find that infidel American spy quickly.",
"\n_10_\n\n## Sunday, October 23\n\n## 0730 hours \nSEAL training base \nCoronado, California\n\nMurdock looked up as Jaybird Sterling came through the door.",
"\n\n\"You called, L-T?\"",
"\n\n\"Right, we've got traveling orders for two men, Douglas and Franklin. ",
"They're flying out of North Island at thirteen hundred riding shotgun in a pair of Tomcats.\"",
"\n\n\"This is a workday. ",
"The platoon knows. ",
"Everyone to report at oh eight hundred.\"",
"\n\n\"Cut some orders for those two going to Saudi Arabia.\"",
"\n\n\"What uniform, what gear?\"",
"\n\n\"Send them in cammies. ",
"To take small arms. ",
"Give them both MP-5's and thirteen-round H&K P7 automatics. ",
"They'll be going in by air, HALO, and will be outfitted with Iranian clothes, and I.D. in Saudi. ",
"They'll get rials there as well for cash, and changes of clothes. ",
"They can get ammo in Saudi, so don't bother with that. ",
"Get both of them in here as soon as they show up.\"",
"\n\n\"Aye, aye, L-T. This have any bearing on our month of training?\"",
"\n\n\"Probably not, Jaybird. ",
"Unless they can help root out some vital intel that the bombs are farther along than the brass thinks they are. ",
"We'll keep to our sched for now at least.\"",
"\n\nMurdock paused and gulped at his coffee. \"",
"Seen DeWitt yet?\"",
"\n\n\"No, sir. ",
"Shall I get Doc Ellsworth up here just for laughs?\"",
"\n\n\"Better not. ",
"This could be a damn touchy situation. ",
"Depends on Milly.\"",
"\n\n\"Right, sir. ",
"I'll bring in the guys when they come.\"",
"\n\nWhen Murdock looked up from his desk a minute later, a pretty face surrounded by short brown hair poked around the door frame.",
"\n\n\"Any room at the inn?\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, come in. ",
"How many sets of cammies do you have?\"",
"\n\n\"Two.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll order you six more. ",
"You'll need them. ",
"You on for long-gun shooting today, right?\"",
"\n\n\"That's what Lieutenant DeWitt said.\"",
"\n\n\"He should be here shortly. ",
"Jaybird has ordered a car, and has laid out enough weapons, and ammo to sink a battleship. ",
"How was the swim?\"",
"\n\n\"Fine, but I'm a little out of shape.\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"Really? ",
"That's not what Jaybird said. ",
"You left him in your wake.\"",
"\n\n\"He's not used to competitive swimming. ",
"When I get in the water, I hate to have anybody ahead of me.\"",
"\n\n\"Even the men triathlon swimmers?\"",
"\n\n\"Especially them.\"",
"\n\n\"Swimming shouldn't be a problem for you here. ",
"We'll go in by air, almost for sure, but I'd guess our only way out will be to fight our way to the coast of southern Iran and take a long swim.\"",
"\n\nJaybird came in towing his two SEALS. \"",
"Captured a pair for you, L-T.\"\n\n* * *\n\n\"Good. ",
"Kat, I want you to listen to this.\" ",
"Murdock went over what he knew about the mission.",
"\n\n\"So, that's about it. ",
"You don't have to play spy, although you will be going in with civilian clothes and gear, international brand weapons, and lots of rial to spend judiciously so you don't attract attention. ",
"You'll be meeting a man named George at site B, wherever that is.\"",
"\n\n\"So we back up this guy, as he tries to tie down the exact location of the nuke plant?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"Iran is tough with its Secret Police. ",
"We lost our native contact there, and George is feeling lonely. ",
"CIA would rather risk some of us than send in two more of their own. ",
"So we get the assignment.\"",
"\n\n\"We HALO in,\" Franklin said. \"",
"How the hell do we get out?\"",
"\n\nMurdock waved them over to look at an eight-by-ten fax of a map of Iran.",
"\n\n\"Advice on the wire this morning is that once your mission is over, you radio out the pinpointed location, and then exfiltrate out of the area. ",
"They say the least sensitive route is to the north of Tehran, to the Caspian Sea. ",
"It borders Iran and Russia. ",
"The water is about sixty miles from Tehran. ",
"Then you should be able to find a boat, or work your way along the coast north to the border with Russia, and get across.",
"\n\n\"At Baku, in Russia, there will be a CIA man. ",
"Baku is about two hundred miles north of the border with Iran.\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds like a walk in the park,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Yeah or a long hike,\" Franklin said. \"",
"We volunteered for this duty, right?\"",
"\n\n\"Right, Franklin, and brush up on your Farsi—you'll be the mouthpiece for your twosome,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nFranklin laughed. \"",
"Grandma said I'd be glad someday that she taught me to speak the old country language.\"",
"\n\n\"You fly out of here at thirteen hundred, so get moving it,\" Jaybird said. ",
"The three walked out of the office.",
"\n\nAt the stroke of 0800, Ed DeWitt came in the door. ",
"His uniform was crisp and fresh, his face cleanly shaven but showing traces of strain and fatigue.",
"\n\n\"Well, shipmates, look what my pit bull dragged in off the beach,\" Murdock said. ",
"He grinned. \"",
"Or is it roadkill?\"",
"\n\n\"Roadkill is closer to it,\" DeWitt growled. ",
"He sat in the chair across the desk and glanced up at Kat.",
"\n\n\"Good morning, Lieutenant Garnet. ",
"I believe we're going to be doing some long-gun shooting today.\"",
"\n\n\"Looking forward to it, Mr. DeWitt.\"",
"\n\nJaybird came in and motioned to Kat. \"",
"Ma'am, we didn't set you up with a locker for your gear and personal things. ",
"We even have locks to show you how much we are a family here. ",
"Let me get you set up before you go on your picnic.\"",
"\n\nKat nodded, and followed Jaybird into the squad room. \"",
"So, what did Milly say?\" ",
"Murdock asked when they had left.",
"\n\n\"About what I expected. ",
"She cried. ",
"She asked if I wanted her to move out. ",
"All the damn female emotional things. ",
"Then she seduced me three times last night. ",
"But the real surprise was this morning at five A.M. The alarm went off and she was all over me again. ",
"She said she'd totally satisfy my male libido so I'd think of Kat as nothing but another one of the guys. ",
"Oh, damn, she's right. ",
"It's really working.\"",
"\n\nMurdock chuckled. \"",
"One of Hollywood's leading men in the fifties had the same problem. ",
"His wife did him every morning before he went on the shoot. ",
"They were married for twenty-seven years.\"",
"\n\n\"Sorry to hear it.\" ",
"DeWitt took a long breath, then grabbed the cup of coffee Jaybird handed him. \"",
"If I pass out on one of our training runs, don't call just any doctor, get me straight to my urologist for a hormone transplant.\"",
"\n\nJaybird came back in grinning and tossed DeWitt a small plastic bottle. ",
"He read the label. \"",
"Might help,\" he said holding it up. \"",
"One-a-day vitamins.\" ",
"They all laughed.",
"\n\n* * *\n\nKat stowed the gear that Jaybird had issued her in her locker. ",
"It included all sorts of items she wasn't familiar with, including some kind of a SCUBA device she figured must be a rebreather for underwater swimming. ",
"She had everything in shape when Jaybird came back.",
"\n\nHe had a black tow bag beside an assortment of weapons.",
"\n\n\"Long guns, today, Lieutenant. ",
"I'll drive the car around and load this for you. ",
"Also I've included some MREs and two six-packs of Coke. ",
"I think the L-T will take along a cooler with some ice. ",
"Might as well make it a real picnic. ",
"Not many fast-food places where you'll be going.\"",
"\n\nKat went back to Murdock's office.",
"\n\n\"The atmosphere in here has changed since yesterday,\" she said. \"",
"Now there's an excitement, an electrical charge. ",
"Reminds me of the last few minutes before a race.\"",
"\n\n\"True,\" Murdock said. \"",
"We've got those two men heading for Saudi Arabia. ",
"It's like this is the real start of our mission. ",
"Now all we have to do is get the rest of the troops ready and get into Iran. ",
"Let's hope they do a good job.\"",
"\n\nJaybird ordered the additional cammies for Kat, got the travel chits cut for the two SEALs, and grinned at the open-ended orders. ",
"The two men were to report to an Air Force base near Ridyah, Saudi Arabia, for an indeterminate time period, and would SEE to the base commander for further instructions. ",
"He'd never seen orders quite so vague before.",
"\n\nKat and DeWitt got off on their drive to the east country, where the Navy had an unofficial firing range.",
"\n\nMurdock and Jaybird drove Franklin and Douglas to North Island with five minutes to spare before flight time. ",
"They put on flight suits and stowed their MP-5's beside their feet. ",
"Five minutes later, the two Navy F-14 Tomcats raced down the runway and lifted off. ",
"They would do midair refueling three times and set down in Saudi Arabia, nonstop. ",
"The Tomcat can do about two-thousand miles to a tankful on a hop in ferry mode.",
"\n\nThe Toms carried minimum arms—two Sparrow missiles and two Sidewinders. ",
"They would be flying over no disputed territory. ",
"At a top speed of 1,500 mph they would be doing nearly Mach 2.34 and searching for favorable tailwinds.",
"\n\nYeoman Second Class Colt \"Guns\" Franklin sat in the rear seat of the F-14 and marveled at the wonder of it all. ",
"It was his first ride in a supersonic fighter of any kind. ",
"He'd almost lost his lunch when they took off from North Island. ",
"He listened to the chatter between the pilots. ",
"He could see the other F-14 to his right, just far enough away so the two planes wouldn't interfere with \"clean\" air ahead of them.",
"\n\nHe knew they would do air-to-air refueling. ",
"That would be something to see. ",
"He'd watch the other plane get the fuel, since he couldn't see much out the front.",
"\n\nGuns wasn't even sure where they were flying. ",
"He figured they'd have to cross the U.S., pick up some fuel partway there, and then head for where—Greenland? ",
"They weren't going over the pole; he knew that from their talk.",
"\n\nFifteen hundred miles an hour. ",
"In two hours they would be all the way across the U.S. Damn! ",
"That was moving. ",
"He didn't even want to figure how fast that was in feet per second. ",
"He looked at the radar and intercept instruments in front of him but didn't touch anything. ",
"They fascinated him but scared him, too. ",
"He didn't want to push a button and fire a missile. ",
"Could he do that? ",
"He didn't know.",
"\n\nA little over six hours later, the two fighters contacted the control tower at a U.S. Air base outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ",
"Both pilots had landed there before. ",
"Guns couldn't figure out why.",
"\n\nOnce out of the planes, Franklin and Douglas were taken to the field's commanding officer. ",
"He sent them down the hall to a small room where a civilian sat waiting for them. ",
"He shook hands with them and began chattering in Farsi.",
"\n\nDouglas shrugged.",
"\n\nFranklin cocked his head to one side, then replied in the same language: \"Sir, your accent is rather weird, or maybe it's mine, but I can understand you with no trouble. ",
"Is you accent the correct one for modern-day Tehran?\"",
"\n\nThe CIA man smiled. \"",
"Mine is out of date, I'm sure, in a growing, changing language, but the important thing is that you understand, and can communicate. ",
"Your friend isn't so lucky.\"",
"\n\n\"He knows no Farsi, but he's a whiz with a SATCOM.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"We'll need you both.\"",
"\n\nThey went back to English.",
"\n\n\"Welcome to Saudi Arabia, men. ",
"I understand you're both SEALs from San Diego. ",
"Yes, we know that you're not spies, not trained to gather intelligence on foreign soil. ",
"What we'll want you to do is to back up and protect our man who is in country doing that job.",
"\n\n\"You'll get civilian clothes, and two changes. ",
"You have H&K M-5's, I understand. ",
"Good German make. ",
"There will be nothing except your English to tie you to the U.S. Now, we'll get you fed, and then you can catch some sleep. ",
"You passed several time zones, so you'll take a day or so to adapt.",
"\n\n\"You'll have identity papers if you need them, but try to stay away from anyone who might ask for them. ",
"You were told you might go in HALO. ",
"A change here, gentlemen. ",
"We have too far to fly to penetrate the Iranian airspace at that altitude, which would show up on their radar.",
"\n\n\"Instead we'll go in low and mean, hope to stay under their radar. ",
"You'll be riding in a big mother, a specially equipped MC-130 Combat Talon. ",
"It's also called a Hercules and can carry seventy-four troops fully combat-ready. ",
"You'll have the space all to yourselves.",
"\n\n\"This plane is especially equipped for exactly this type of deep-penetrating covert missions. ",
"She's painted all black and with no U.S. Air Force markings or insignia. ",
"The crew will be carrying no U.S. identity and their uniforms are strictly non-U.S.\"\n\n\"So if we get shot down, nobody can say we're Americans,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Quite right and for good reason we won't claim you are. ",
"You'll get on board, and jump off, a rear loading ramp on the plane. ",
"Plenty of room. ",
"We'll be dropping you off at no more than a thousand feet, depending on the terrain. ",
"Your chutes will be on static lines for instant deployment. ",
"You should have fifteen seconds before you reach the ground, so be ready. ",
"Have you ever jumped this low before?\"",
"\n\n\"Ten times or so,\" Franklin said. \"",
"No problem.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll go in at night, right?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"You'll get a ride up to Kuwait, and from there the MC-130 will take off for Tehran. ",
"We plan on dropping you about fifty miles this side of the city. ",
"Tehran has seven million people now and growing. ",
"We'll try to hit near a main highway where you can catch a bus to get to the city, and find the meet. ",
"It will all be spelled out on a paper for each of you. ",
"Don't let anyone see that paper.\"",
"\n\nThe civilian looked at them for a moment. \"",
"That's about it. ",
"Any questions?\"",
"\n\n\"Does the Company put any restrictions on us? ",
"We're basically a shoot-and-scoot-type operation. ",
"This won't quite be that, I'd guess.\"",
"\n\n\"No restrictions. ",
"However, if there's a body count, it will bring out the Secret Police by the hundreds. ",
"They don't like anybody but themselves killing people in Iran.\"",
"\n\n\"Foul-ups,\" Douglas said. \"",
"Say we get to the meet, and this George isn't there? ",
"Say George got himself killed. ",
"What do we do then?\"",
"\n\n\"You have a SATCOM. ",
"I'd hole up somewhere and ask for instructions. ",
"We'll be listening for you twenty-four hours a day. ",
"You should listen for us at midnight and six A.M.\"\n\n\"We know what George is trying to find out,\" Franklin said. \"",
"We're not spooks, but we'll do what we can to help him, as well as protecting his ass.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"You'll be shown to quarters now for some food, and then sleep. ",
"Tomorrow you'll get a ride up to Kuwait.\" ",
"The man pointed at the door, and two Air Force men came in.",
"\n\n\"Right this way to your quarters, men,\" a corporal said.",
"\n\n\"Where's the food?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\nThe corporal grinned. \"",
"Hey, you get to order what you want, and we'll bring it to you. ",
"How about that for service?\"",
"\n\nThe tension, the long flight, and the change in time all hit Douglas at the same instant. \"",
"Hey, if I drop facedown into my steak and go to sleep, just roll me over and let me snore. ",
"I've never been so damn tired in my life.\"",
"\n_11_\n\n# Monday, October 24\n\n## 1004 hours \nKuwait City, Kuwait\n\nFranklin and Douglas had been outfitted with Iranian clothing an hour before. ",
"Now they looked over their I.D. and other papers that made them out to be Iranians.",
"\n\n\"We don't even look Arabic,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Make that Persian, Kurd, or Azerbaijani,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Whatever. ",
"We going to be able to pass?\"",
"\n\n\"We damn well better, or we'll be dead meat.\"",
"\n\nDouglas groaned. \"",
"We go in tonight as soon as it gets dark?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah. ",
"What a kick. ",
"That great big bird for just the two of us. ",
"Think they would have used something smaller, faster.\"",
"\n\n\"Could, but we wouldn't have any way to bail out. ",
"Hell, they say this plane has been prepped especially for runs like this. ",
"Covert as all hell.\"",
"\n\n\"Just so it gets us in without getting shot down. ",
"We'll worry about how to get out.\"",
"\n\nDouglas scowled. \"",
"You still have that map? ",
"Let's take another look. ",
"Tehran is a humongous place, seven million bodies. ",
"We've got to find one certain apartment?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, if we're gonna do any good.\"",
"\n\nThey both were surprised when Don Stroh, their CIA guardian, walked in the room two hours before flight time.",
"\n\n\"Any problems?\" ",
"he asked.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, Stroh. ",
"I'd like to get some of your frequent flyer miles.\" ",
"Franklin said. \"",
"You must have built up a few million by now.\"",
"\n\n\"No such luck, mostly military aircraft. ",
"Problems?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, the handguns they gave us. ",
"A piece of shit,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"We got the Polish copy of the Makarov, the P-64. ",
"A nice light little nine-millimeter with six rounds. ",
"Best part is it can't be traced to the U.S. Everything you have is sterile of any U.S. tie. ",
"We planned it that way.\"",
"\n\n\"Rather have fourteen rounds in my magazine,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Sure, and you'd rather take the MP-5 you brought, but no chance. ",
"Anything else?\"",
"\n\n\"We get out via Russia, right?\" ",
"Franklin asked. \"",
"Baku?\"",
"\n\n\"Correct. ",
"First we need to know exactly where that nuke plant is. ",
"If our man in there can't find it, you two will have to. ",
"I know you aren't trained for this. ",
"Mostly it's just common sense. ",
"Find the people who know what you need to know, and persuade them to tell you.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll get the damn intel some way,\" Douglas said. \"",
"Otherwise there can't be a mission.\"",
"\n\n\"That's the rub.\" ",
"Stroh brightened. \"",
"But our man said he had a new lead, so maybe all you'll need to do is be backup for him. ",
"Oh, he'll have some more weapons for you when you get inside.\"",
"\n\n\"When do we leave?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"A half hour,\" Stroh said. \"",
"Let's get out to the plane. ",
"You'll take off a half hour before dark. ",
"The plane will move north up through Kuwait, and then through the no-fly zone in Iraq. ",
"After that it turns to the right into Iran. ",
"This means we'll have only about two hundred and fifty miles to penetrate into Iran before you drop.\"",
"\n\n\"How low?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"You're set for eight hundred feet. ",
"Takes about three hundred feet for a round chute to open, then twenty seconds or so to the ground.\"",
"\n\n\"Damn, I feel naked going in like this. ",
"No weapons, no gear, almost nothing.\" ",
"Douglas shook his head.",
"\n\n\"This is the way that it should work best. ",
"Let's get out to the flight line.\"",
"\n\nTen minutes later, they were in the big plane. ",
"The Hercules C-130 is a monster, especially for two passengers. ",
"It has four Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines, good for 4,591 horsepower each. ",
"It has a high wing and has flown off aircraft carriers. ",
"It has a 132-foot wingspan, is 98 feet long, and the tail extends up 38 feet.",
"\n\nThe C-130 has a crew of five, cruises at 375 mph, and with a maximum fuel load can cover 4,894 miles without gulping more juice.",
"\n\nDouglas looked at the cave-like interior of the big ship, and then at the Air Force sergeant who was the load master.",
"\n\n\"How in hell do we get out of this thing?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Easy. ",
"We lift the rear cargo door and you run down the wide ramp, and one step later you're outa here. ",
"We've got you attached to static lines so you'll have instant opening of the chutes. ",
"Nothing to get in the way except our prop wash.\"",
"\n\n\"How long we got, Sarge?\"",
"\n\n\"Our flight time to the DZ is an hour and twenty-three minutes. ",
"I'll alert you fifteen minutes before drop time.\"",
"\n\nThey nodded, and the crew chief went back to the cabin. ",
"Douglas looked out the small round windows. ",
"It had grown dark quickly after they took off, and now he could see nothing but pure blackness.",
"\n\nThe two men slumped in the bucket seats, and worked their own thoughts. ",
"Douglas had been restoring a 1931 Model A Roadster in a garage near his apartment in Coronado. ",
"It had yellow wire wheels, a rumble seat, and a cloth top. ",
"He wanted to keep it all original but soon found that parts for a sixty-seven-year-old car were almost impossible to find. ",
"So he had been replacing some with remanu-factured parts from specialty houses. ",
"He'd keep it as pure as he could, especially the outside. ",
"He loved the gas tank that sat over the engine next to the inside of the fire wall. ",
"No fuel pump. ",
"Gravity flow.",
"\n\nHe looked at the SATCOM radio he carried. ",
"It was much smaller than the multiple-use one that Ron Holt had for the platoon. ",
"This was a simple transceiver for the satellite only. ",
"He would turn it on to receive at midnight, and at noon. ",
"He could send at any time.",
"\n\nThat was the one item that could tie the team to the U.S. If they faced capture, that was the first destroy job he had. ",
"He had been with the Third Platoon for almost two years now, had been through three big operations before. ",
"He'd get through this one if he had to walk every damn step to Baku.",
"\n\nFirst they had to find where the Iranian nukes were being made. ",
"South, somewhere south. ",
"At least this was something different from the shoot-and-scoot he'd been involved with so far.",
"\n\nHe knew Iran was a mountainous place. ",
"One hill went over eighteen hundred feet, which was higher even than Mammoth Lake, where he came from in California. ",
"Mammoth was around eight thousand feet, in the middle of the Sierra Nevadas. ",
"He yawned—no time for a nap.",
"\n\nColt Franklin took out the pistol again from deep inside his three layers of strange clothes. ",
"It wasn't even in a holster, just nestled into some folds of cloth. ",
"Safer that way, they told him.",
"\n\nSkydiving and parachuting were not new to him, but this low jump would be a first. ",
"Sport jumping usually makes you go out at least twenty-five hundred feet. ",
"He thought of writing a letter, but didn't have any gear. ",
"He'd write when he got back. ",
"He'd heard about the mountain near Tehran. ",
"They said it was 18,934 feet. ",
"Damn. ",
"He'd love to get a shot at climbing it. ",
"But not this tour.",
"\n\nRock climbing was his passion, but he'd never seen a mountain almost nineteen thousand feet high. ",
"Maybe later he'd have a shot at it. ",
"If he didn't get shot on this run. ",
"He looked out the window again, but there was nothing out there. ",
"Just blackness. ",
"Good. ",
"He'd hate to see the slash of a jet fighter slamming past them. ",
"Much prefer to be alone in the dark, and get to the damned DZ in one fucking piece.",
"\n\nTen minutes later the load master came back and yelled.",
"\n\n\"Time: We're about fifteen away from the Drop Zone. ",
"I hate this low-level stuff. ",
"You probably felt us rolling around a little. ",
"So far we've not had any radar tracking us, which is great. ",
"About five minutes until drop, I'll open the rear hatch and get you hooked up on the static line.\"",
"\n\nHe vanished. ",
"They tried the windows again. ",
"Nothing.",
"\n\nWhen the load master came back into the cabin, the two SEALs stood. ",
"He hit a switch somewhere and there was a grinding, whirling sound and the rear ramp section of the big transport swung down revealing a square of pure black space. ",
"For a moment Franklin thought he saw lights below, but he wasn't sure.",
"\n\nThe Air Force sergeant hooked up the SEALs to the static line, one on each side of the wide hatch. ",
"The static line would automatically pull the rip cord, and their round chutes would deploy as soon as they jumped out the door. ",
"Douglas had heard that it took a chute three hundred feet to fully deploy and start slowing a man's decent. ",
"Then within a few seconds they would drop through the other five hundred feet to the ground.",
"\n\nThey couldn't use the rectangular steerable chutes this close to the ground. ",
"The round chutes would spill air on one side or the other for some control. ",
"But not much. ",
"Soon now. ",
"They were both hooked up to the static line and ready.",
"\n\n\"Stand by,\" the load master shouted against the roar of the wind behind the plane. ",
"They watched the red light on the bulkhead over the door. ",
"In a heartbeat it turned to green.",
"\n\n\"Go, go go,\" Douglas shouted.",
"\n\nThe two SEALs ran the ten feet to the gaping hole in the back of the big transport and raced into space.",
"\n\nThe slipstream of the big transport battered Douglas for a moment, then he felt the chute open behind him. ",
"The big round chute caught the wind with a shrilling crack. ",
"At the same time the parachute harness jerked at his legs, thighs, and shoulders. ",
"He'd been halfway upside down in the slipstream, the chute yanked him savagely upright. ",
"It was harder than Douglas had ever felt on a chute opening, even with sixty pounds of gear.",
"\n\nHe shook his head, and looked above him. ",
"The glorious jet-black canopy billowed there, fully open, and cutting his rate of descent to a modest speed. ",
"He looked around, but couldn't find the other chute.",
"\n\nThe ground. ",
"He looked down, and in the faint moonlight he could see it. ",
"What appeared to be some kind of a road showed to the left maybe half a klick. ",
"That might be the highway they were to use to get to Tehran.",
"\n\nSuddenly there were trees ahead of him. ",
"He pulled the cord on the right side of the chute, spilling some air on that side and drifting him to the right of the trees.",
"\n\nThen the ground rushed at him. ",
"He took it the way he had dozens of times, with his knees slightly bent and his hands on the chute release. ",
"He hit the ground and ran, dumped the chute, and began pulling it into a big wad. ",
"For a moment he didn't make a sound, and listened. ",
"He heard a grunt from his right.",
"\n\n\"You okay?\" ",
"he said, half aloud.",
"\n\n\"Hell yes,\" the short reply came.",
"\n\nThe found each other a minute later. ",
"Franklin used the entrenching tool he carried to dig a hole for his chute and harness. ",
"He covered the spot with some branches and dead leaves. ",
"Douglas did the same with his chute and gear, then pushed the digging tool under the pile and looked around.",
"\n\n\"Thought I saw a road when we came in,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"To the left, half a klick,\" Franklin said. \"",
"We better move.\"",
"\n\nThey found the road twenty minutes later. ",
"There was little traffic. ",
"It was paved and two lanes, looked like a main highway for this country. ",
"Half a dozen trucks sped by. ",
"The two SEALs moved down closer. ",
"The route ran generally northeast by southwest. ",
"From there they had to go northeast.",
"\n\nAfter a half hour's wait near the road, they heard an older rig coming that had to be smaller than the others. ",
"Franklin watched it come through the darkness, then walked out near the side of the road and waved both arms in the glare of the headlights. ",
"The old, much used farm truck, with a stake body, slowed, then stopped.",
"\n\nFranklin chattered for a moment in Farsi with the man in the small truck, then waved at Douglas. ",
"They both crawled into the cab, They saw the rig had crates of live chickens in the back.",
"\n\nFranklin took some bills from his pocket and gave the farmer two 10,000 rial notes. ",
"The old man grinned, showing snaggle teeth, and then he nodded. ",
"He said something to Franklin. ",
"They both laughed.",
"\n\n\"Told him we missed our bus to Tehran,\" Franklin whispered.",
"\n\nThey got to the big city before daylight. ",
"Franklin told the farmer where they wanted to go, and he explained how to get there. ",
"The farmer stopped at an open-air market that was almost filled already with merchant booths.",
"\n\nThe sun had been up for two hours when Franklin knocked on a door in a falling-apart neighborhood. ",
"A small man answered, and stared at Franklin in surprise. ",
"Before he could say anything, the small man was pushed aside, and a tall man who looked remarkably American stepped into his place. ",
"He carried a huge-looking .45 automatic in his right hand and waved it at Franklin.",
"\n\n\"George?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Oh, God, yes,\" the man said, and motioned them inside.",
"\n\nDouglas checked out the place. ",
"It was sparsely furnished—no modern appliances, a cot, a small cooking area, and a mattress on the floor.",
"\n\nThey introduced themselves and George sighed.",
"\n\n\"Am I glad to see you guys. ",
"The Secret Police have been hounding me the past two days, and I haven't made any progress. ",
"I was afraid you'd get lost.\"",
"\n\n\"Okay, George, we're here,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Now what the fuck happens?\"",
"\n_12_\n\n# Tuesday, October 25\n\n## 1032 hours \nSafe house \"B\" \nTehran, Iran\n\n\"What are we going to do?\" ",
"George asked. \"",
"We're going to find out exactly where that damned Iranian nuke plant is. ",
"I've been on the phone this morning. ",
"The damned Secret Police can't keep tabs on every one of the seven million people in town.\"",
"\n\n\"So?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Peter, my last contact was a total bust. ",
"Now I have a noon meet with a guy who says he worked at the nuke plant. ",
"He may have; he may just be looking for some cash.\"",
"\n\n\"Or he may be ready to turn you in to the cops if you don't pay him,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"That's why I'm glad for some backup. ",
"I've got this one laid out just right.\"",
"\n\n\"Stroh said you'd have some better firepower for us,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"What are you packing?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\nThey showed him.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, good for a hideout, not much on stopping power. ",
"I like a forty-five.\"",
"\n\n\"We saw it. ",
"Where's ours?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\nGeorge chuckled. \"",
"They told me you might be a little gung ho. ",
"Look, one thing I don't need is a bunch of bodies around here. ",
"The cops here are tough as shit about that. ",
"I need security, not a couple of hit men. ",
"Understood?\"",
"\n\n\"Roger, that,\" Douglas said. \"",
"So what do we do?\"",
"\n\n\"This is my last safe house. ",
"I want to keep it safe. ",
"The Secret Police don't know a thing about it. ",
"My other two were raided. ",
"Two of my friends were killed. ",
"I don't know about the third one, Tauksun.\"",
"\n\n\"Tauksaun?\" ",
"Franklin asked. \"",
"Sounds like the Japanese word for big, large, a lot.\"",
"\n\n\"That he is, maybe six hundred pounds. ",
"The point is he's compromised now and I can't use him even if he is alive.\"",
"\n\n\"So, how close are you to getting the exact spot down south?\"",
"\n\n\"Not far enough. ",
"We know it's inland somewhere from that port city down there. ",
"The satellite is supposed to get some better pictures of the area. ",
"We're trying to follow roads. ",
"There has to be a big hairy road leading into the site. ",
"Unless they bulldozed it out after they got the place built, and all the structures in place.\"",
"\n\n\"Camouflaged?\" ",
"Rogers asked.",
"\n\n\"The main plant, yes. ",
"It's either that or underground in a big natural cave, or a dug-out one.\"",
"\n\n\"So who is this guy you meet this noon?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"I know him only as Lefty. ",
"He's another lens grinder. ",
"They used a lot of locals to grind some of the finely tuned parts of the bombs. ",
"Not sure what parts, but it's our best local tie-in.",
"\n\n\"I'm talking with him in the middle of a soccer field. ",
"I'll tell him the location fifteen minutes before the meeting time. ",
"He won't have time to set up anything with anybody if he's crooked. ",
"I'll want you two on the sides of the place to give me some support. ",
"Anybody who tries to get on the field, you stop. ",
"Gently, not with bullets.\"",
"\n\n\"What can this guy tell us, if he's for real?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"What we need to know is what highway they took out of the port city, how far they went, how long they drove. ",
"We know the trucks were closed so the riders couldn't see out except occasionally. ",
"Time will be a big factor. ",
"If we know they traveled north for over an hour up into the mountains, we're starting to get a general idea on the location, but that's about all.\"",
"\n\nBoth the SEALs nodded.",
"\n\n\"Now, how about something to eat? ",
"My man, Coman, has been working on it. ",
"Figured you haven't eaten since yesterday sometime. ",
"Not your usual American meal, but we have some goodies.\"",
"\n\nAs if on command, the small Iranian, who had vanished through a curtained door, appeared with a tray. ",
"It was filled with food: two kinds of meat, thick slabs of bread, a jar of American peanut butter, and steaming cups of coffee. ",
"On another platter were four kinds of fruit.",
"\n\nA half hour later most of the food was gone.",
"\n\nGeorge watched them eat, had some himself, and then asked the question of the day: \"The meat sandwiches, how did you like them?\"",
"\n\nBoth said they were good. ",
"Different, but good.",
"\n\nGeorge grinned. \"",
"Probably the first time you've ever had a dog meat sandwich.\" ",
"He held it for a moment then laughed at the wild expression on the two men's faces. \"",
"Just kidding. ",
"I don't think they eat dog meat over here. ",
"It was most likely goat or lamb. ",
"I try never to ask what I'm eating.\"",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later they had walked to the soccer field. ",
"It was bare brown earth with no chalk lines but with goalposts on either end. ",
"No one was there practicing. ",
"George left the SEALs on the side where small buildings evidently housed equipment. ",
"Franklin went around the end of the field to the shacks on the far side, where he vanished. ",
"Both had their 9mm pistols.",
"\n\nDouglas saw the Iranian come from the other side of the field. ",
"He came partway, looked around, saw only George and then slowly walked up, and evidently began to talk with George. ",
"Douglas watched around him—the street, half a block away—and checked out anyone walking nearby. ",
"One man came directly toward the field, then when he saw the two men there, he turned and walked away quickly.",
"\n\nDouglas kept one hand on the gun under his outer garment, but relaxed when the stranger left.",
"\n\nHe looked back at the conference in the middle of the field. ",
"All seemed to be going well. ",
"They did not shake hands, but he saw a curt nod from each man. ",
"The contact went back the way he had come, and George waved at Franklin, who followed him back to where Douglas watched.",
"\n\nGeorge smiled. \"",
"All right. ",
"So far, so good. ",
"This lens grinder said he was sure that they traveled fifty miles almost due north on a new road. ",
"There were no seasonal gullies washed through it, so it was new or finely maintained. ",
"From the fifty miles, he isn't sure where they went next.",
"\n\n\"This does nothing more than corroborate information we already had. ",
"But it's good to know we have at least two witnesses who put the work north and into the mountains. ",
"He thinks he fell asleep after the fifty miles. ",
"He does know a woman here in town who he thinks may be able to help us. ",
"She's at one of the city's good restaurants. ",
"He will meet us there tonight and introduce us.\"",
"\n\n\"How did he come up with fifty miles?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Time and speed. ",
"He said the truck had a governor on it so it couldn't go over forty miles an hour. ",
"The roads would support that speed, but not much more. ",
"He says he had a stopwatch feature on his wristwatch, and timed it at an hour and fifteen minutes. ",
"That would be fifty miles at forty miles per hour. ",
"But where did they go after that? ",
"This woman might be able to help us.\"",
"\n\n\"I thought women were like slaves in this country,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Oh, they are, believe me. ",
"Can't vote, can't drive a car, can't hold a job worth anything. ",
"They are baby makers and child raisers. ",
"That's about it.\"",
"\n\n\"But this woman you want to meet?\"",
"\n\n\"She's remarkable. ",
"I've heard of her. ",
"Something of a star performer in this country. ",
"She's married with two boys, and is one of the best belly dancers in the country. ",
"Persia, remember, the heart of the belly dancing trade. ",
"Because of that, she has been given certain allowances and privileges.\"",
"\n\nThey went to the cafe that night. ",
"George's man, Coman, led the way and eased them into the place. ",
"He knew someone there. ",
"It was more like a nightclub than a restaurant, but there was no alcohol. ",
"Not in a Muslim country. ",
"The surroundings seemed typically Persian to Douglas: curtains, drapes, incense, low lighting, strange music on even stranger stringed instruments, and far off some woman's singsong voice echoing through the eatery.",
"\n\nThey met the man George had talked to in the soccer field. ",
"He kept looking around as if someone were after him. ",
"At last he relaxed. ",
"He had them seated in a corner away from most of the other diners. ",
"A few minutes later he brought a beautiful woman to their table and introduced her to them. ",
"He didn't used their names. ",
"She said her name was Murrah, the Arabic equivalent of Mary.",
"\n\nMurrah smiled at them, and spoke in heavily accented English. \"",
"My friends. ",
"I will see you later and dance for you. ",
"Enjoy yourselves. ",
"Perhaps we can do something good for Iran and the rest of the world. ",
"It could start tonight.\"",
"\n\nShe left then, and their food came. ",
"Again the Americans weren't sure what they had for their dinner. ",
"It was good. ",
"Soon, Coman stood and motioned the five of them to a private room, where they sat down at a low table. ",
"The room had heavy drapes, more incense, and soft lilting music. ",
"On the table were five tall glasses of some kind of special drink. ",
"They sampled it and talked quietly. ",
"A few moments later the music changed, and then took on a throbbing, intense beat. ",
"From the drapes, a belly dancer came out and did her dance to the accompaniment of the faster and faster sensual music. ",
"It was Murrah.",
"\n\nDouglas tried to figure out how old she was. ",
"He'd heard that belly dancing was an art that took years to learn. ",
"This woman had to be in her forties, he decided. ",
"Yet she was still slender, with well-rounded hips, which are the featured part of the body for the dance. ",
"She had changed from the dress she had worn in the cafe. ",
"Now it was the traditional belly dancer's skimpy and revealing costume.",
"\n\nBefore it was over, the four men were tapping the low table in front of them to the beat of the music.",
"\n\nShe came to the end of the dance, but the music continued, and she sat down close to George. ",
"She whispered to them in English.",
"\n\n\"I can help you,\" she said. \"",
"But not here. ",
"Too many know me and watch me. ",
"They pay to watch me.\" ",
"She laughed. \"",
"I know what they are doing in the south. ",
"I don't like it. ",
"The devil bombs are too many already. ",
"Iran does not need them. ",
"I will help you. ",
"Come to my house later tonight.\" ",
"She gave Franklin a piece of paper.",
"\n\n\"Be there at midnight, and we can talk in private.\"",
"\n\nThen she was gone.",
"\n\nThe five men stood. ",
"Franklin looked at the note. \"",
"It's an address.\" ",
"He showed it to George, who smiled.",
"\n\n\"Yes, a good address in the better part of town. ",
"The three of us will go; Coman will keep the home fires burning.\" ",
"They said good-bye to the man from the soccer field, after giving him a sheaf of rial notes.",
"\n\nThey took a taxi most of the way back to the safe house, then walked in twos the last eight blocks. ",
"They paused, backtracked, and circled around. ",
"No one followed them.",
"\n\nDouglas sat in the safe house and field-stripped, cleaned, and oiled his pistol. ",
"It didn't need cleaning. ",
"He looked up at George, who was reading a newspaper, trying to understand the Farsi.",
"\n\n\"George, how far are we from Chah Bahar?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"What? ",
"How far? ",
"To hell and gone way down there in the south almost in Pakistan. ",
"Must be fifteen hundred miles.\" ",
"He frowned. \"",
"Won't do. ",
"We have to find the location here. ",
"Somebody here knows exactly where that facility is. ",
"All I have to do is make the right contact. ",
"Maybe Murrah is the one. ",
"She seems to know that they are working with nukes down there and doesn't like it.\"",
"\n\n\"So there are a few people here who know the spot. ",
"How do you find them, George, out of seven million foreigners?\"",
"\n\n\"With a whole lot of luck.\"",
"\n\n\"We don't believe in luck, George,\" Franklin chimed in. \"",
"I'm with Douglas. ",
"Be one hell of a lot easier to pinpoint the spot if we were in the neighborhood. ",
"So how can we get down there to that southern town?\"",
"\n\n\"Practically impossible. ",
"You don't just waltz up to a ticket counter and get an airline ride down there. ",
"I don't even think it has an airport. ",
"It's a port, but it would take a month to sail down there the way these coast boats run. ",
"That leaves a car. ",
"You know how much trouble it would be to drive from here to Chah Bahar?\"",
"\n\n\"No, George, tell us,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nGeorge stood and walked to the window, then came back. \"",
"You're serious, aren't you? ",
"I'm about tapped out up here, true. ",
"I've gone through four leads, and nothing but those damn fifty miles. ",
"What happens tonight, I don't know, but I'm not overly enthused. ",
"What could this dancer know?\"",
"\n\n\"Could we drive down there?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Possible. ",
"If we had some good reason for going, and a car and the permits we would need.\"",
"\n\n\"What about flying partway?\" ",
"Douglas said. \"",
"Didn't I see a big town about halfway down the country, Shiraz, something like that.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, it's down there, about halfway. ",
"But they check papers on all commercial flights. ",
"Travel in this country isn't automatic. ",
"Our papers wouldn't stand up to a detailed inspection.\"",
"\n\n\"I still think we need to go down there,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Maybe Murrah will have some ideas,\" George said. \"",
"At least I hope she will. ",
"If she knows there are nukes down there, she may know more about it than we do. ",
"She's evidently in some group that is fighting the nuke development. ",
"Lots of luck to her.\"",
"\n\nThe played poker for matches for two hours, then took off to find the address Murrah told them about. ",
"They walked away from the safe house almost a mile, then caught a taxi, and arrived on the right street.",
"\n\nAgain they left the cab several blocks from the address and walked in a roundabout way. ",
"When they were sure no one was following, they went to the side door of the address and knocked.",
"\n\nThis was in the more modern section of Tehran, which had business buildings right beside ancient bazaars and markets, with winding mazes of narrow streets and lanes that came up against circle highways around the city. ",
"Now broad avenues cut through most large towns in Iran, such as Tehran, in contrast to the traditional labyrinth of crooked streets and cul-de-sacs lined with narrow arcades of individual shops, grouped according to the products or services sold.",
"\n\nThis building looked like a single house, but was large by most Iranian standards. ",
"It was two stories, and made of some kind of stone.",
"\n\nThey were early, but soon a woman with a long white robe came to the door and let them in. ",
"She had led them to a living room that looked much like one in the States.",
"\n\n\"Pleased to sit,\" the woman said. \"",
"She will be with you in a minute.\"",
"\n\nGeorge looked around with a slow grin. \"",
"This could be in Portland or Denver, or Washington, D.C. It's so damn American.\"",
"\n\nGeorge bobbed his head. \"",
"It is well known that Murrah is a fan of the Western world, and would like to go there someday when travel restrictions are lifted.\"",
"\n\nThey looked up as a woman came into the room from the shadows beyond. ",
"The three men stood quickly. ",
"She wore a body-hugging blue dress with sequins, and that draped off one shoulder. ",
"It looked like something off a Paris runway at a big fashion designer's show. ",
"Her dark hair was formed high on her head, in a frothy buildup.",
"\n\nShe smiled. \"",
"Gentlemen, welcome to my home. ",
"Please sit down. ",
"Yes, I'm a mere woman in Iran, but still I have the clout to demand a few things, and those who love my dancing can't deny me them.\"",
"\n\nShe came on into the room and sat in the ornamental chair the others had avoided. ",
"It was her chair and she settled into it, and waved her hand.",
"\n\nThe same woman they had seen before, in the long white robe, came in with a tray of drinks.",
"\n\n\"Sorry, no bourbon on the rocks or old-fashioneds or even gin and tonic. ",
"This is Iran.\" ",
"She watched them for a moment, sipped from her drink, and then a small frown touched her face.",
"\n\n\"I hope I was not wrong in my assumption. ",
"I have the impression that the United States government knows more than I do about the nuclear facility Iran has built far to the south. ",
"It is my hope that we can work together to help damage or destroy that plant without unleashing a rain of deadly radiation clouds that would sweep across the Middle East.\"",
"\n\nGeorge took the lead.",
"\n\n\"Murrah, your intel is right on target. ",
"We have hopes of doing some work at that plant that will indeed leave it in such a state that the Iranian government will need to start over in its drive to build a nuclear-powered weapon.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Then we are in agreement. ",
"How can I help you?\" ",
"She sipped the drink, and watched them over the rim of the delicate stemware.",
"\n\n\"We need to know the exact location of the nuclear plant,\" George said.",
"\n\n\"When do you need this information?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"As soon as possible. ",
"We understand the construction phase is nearing completion. ",
"We have at the most three weeks.\"",
"\n\nThe woman shook her head, then stood gracefully and paced the room, more like a ballet dancer than a stalking tiger. ",
"She shook her head a second time, then looked at the Americans.",
"\n\n\"Impossible. ",
"I've been trying to find out that same fact now for almost two years. ",
"I have seen two of my friends killed by the Secret Police. ",
"Another man I talked to was severely beaten and is still recovering.",
"\n\n\"Yet the Secret Police do not suspect me. ",
"They can't see past my dancing. ",
"Since I am not suspect, I can learn more. ",
"But I am tremendously careful. ",
"Did you know that I had someone follow you here tonight?\"",
"\n\n\"Follow us?\" ",
"Douglas asked. \"",
"We were careful, we saw no one following.\"",
"\n\n\"That's what I pay my people for. ",
"You were followed by my man to be sure that you were not followed by the Secret Police. ",
"I know, of course, where your last safe house is, George.\"",
"\n\nGeorge chuckled to relieve some of his anger and frustration. ",
"He had no idea how she did it. ",
"He moved ahead smoothly.",
"\n\n\"We're grateful for your help, Murrah. ",
"Now, what can we do here in Tehran to find out the location of that nuclear site?\"",
"\n\nShe frowned, and held up her hands. \"",
"George, I have no idea.\"",
"\n_13_\n\n# Tuesday, October 25\n\n## 0730 hours \nSEAL training base \nCoronado, California\n\nLieutenant Murdock put down the phone and looked at Ed DeWitt and Jaybird Sterling, who had been listening to this end of the conversation with their CIA contact, Don Stroh.",
"\n\n\"Our boys are in Tehran. ",
"Franklin and Douglas checked in by SATCOM this morning. ",
"The CIA guy there isn't making much progress. ",
"They're not sure what they will do. ",
"A chance they make a move fifteen hundred miles to the south, and try to find the nuke plant in person.\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds dangerous moving over that much enemy territory,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"Like walking through hell with an ice cream cone,\" Jaybird said.",
"\n\nThey all looked up when Kat Garnet walked in wearing her spanking new cammies.",
"\n\n\"Morning,\" she said.",
"\n\n\"Good morning to you, Kat. ",
"How's the shooting eye?\"",
"\n\n\"Better after yesterday. ",
"Two days with the long guns is about all I get, Ed tells me. ",
"I might want some more in a week or so.\"",
"\n\n\"Good swim last night?\"",
"\n\nKat grinned. \"",
"I'm not used to an open-ocean swim at night. ",
"Different, especially on the surface. ",
"Soon I get to use the rebreather, I hope.\"",
"\n\n\"Before you know it, Kat,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"Today you get to blow up things. ",
"Ever throw firecrackers as a kid?\"",
"\n\n\"Not many. ",
"They were outlawed early on in Virginia. ",
"Hand grenades?\"",
"\n\n\"Right,\" Jaybird said. \"",
"And then there's plastique C-4, and the new stuff TNAZ.\"",
"\n\n\"A long ride?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"Just down the beach to the pit,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"First the run? ",
"It gets me loosened up.\"",
"\n\n\"We can set up each day with the run first, if you want,\" Murdock said. \"",
"You're getting up to speed, how about ten miles today?\"",
"\n\n\"In the sand?\"",
"\n\n\"Soft or hard, your pick. ",
"You lead.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Who do I run with today?\"",
"\n\n\"Ron Holt is your patsy. ",
"He's our communications man, and works right behind me in the squad formation. ",
"You'll be right behind him, so I want you to know his moves inside out. ",
"Jaybird, give Holt the word. ",
"Holt will know the five-mile point to the south.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks, Murdock,\" she said, and snapped him a proper salute.",
"\n\nHe returned it. \"",
"Hey, you even learned how to salute the right way.\"",
"\n\nShe laughed. \"",
"Got caught on the amphib base a couple of times, and had to return salutes to some men. ",
"Figured if I was going to play the part, I better get it all down right. ",
"See you in about an hour.\" ",
"She went out the door.",
"\n\nJaybird came back. \"",
"She's doing the ten miles in an hour? ",
"Ron Holt is gonna be sweating by the time they get back. ",
"That's a six-minute mile.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, be good for him,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Wait until you see what I've worked up for the rest of the platoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Skipper, that must be the planning session I missed,\" Jaybird said.",
"\n\nMurdock tossed him the clipboard. \"",
"Check it out.\"",
"\n\nJaybird looked down the six lines on the paper, and collapsed on the platoon leader's desk. ",
"He revived, and staggered to a chair.",
"\n\n\"If that was a dive from the ten-meter board, I'd give you no more than a six,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"All of this, today?\" ",
"Jaybird finally stammered out.",
"\n\n\"That's just the morning drill,\" Murdock said, and laughed at the expression on Jaybird's face.",
"\n\n\"Of course, we could always add a few problems and marches to get the new men totally integrated.\"",
"\n\nJaybird dropped the clipboard on the desk. \"",
"L-T, it looks just dandy to me.\"",
"\n\n\"Waves are kicking up out there this morning from a storm. ",
"Be a good time to get in some refresher work on the IBS. ",
"We'll start with that just after oh-eight-hundred, Jaybird. ",
"Have the men on the beach ready to get wet at oh-eight-ten.\"",
"\n\n\"Boats, sir?\"",
"\n\n\"Two reserved for us in the yard. ",
"Take your pick.\"",
"\n\nJaybird went into the squad room and let the men know the first order of business. ",
"It would be with full combat gear, vests, full ammo load and issue weapon, including the heavy H&K Mark 23 .45 pistol with silencer on the belt of each SEAL.",
"\n\n\"Hey, Jaybird, you don't make it easy, do you?\" ",
"Magic Brown called.",
"\n\n\"Sure I do. ",
"The only easy day around here was yesterday, remember? ",
"We've got ten minutes to pick up those two boats. ",
"Let's move.\"",
"\n\nBack in the platoon commander's office, Murdock looked at DeWitt. \"",
"How is Milly taking your official duties?\"",
"\n\n\"She's still pissed. ",
"Says there isn't any excuse to have the expert be a woman, and no reason you gave her to me to train except that you're trying to split up me and Milly.\"",
"\n\nMurdock chuckled. \"",
"Milly knows that's a bunch of crap. ",
"She's just playing female for a while. ",
"She doesn't have a worry. ",
"You look so wrung out every morning no other woman would stand a chance. ",
"Thought you and Milly had Kat over for dinner.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat said she didn't think that would be such a good idea the first couple of days. ",
"Put her off for a week. ",
"I think Milly thinks that by then she'll crash and burn, and get out of the operation, and go home.\"",
"\n\n\"You really think so, Ed?\"",
"\n\n\"Hell no. ",
"She's tougher than half our guys. ",
"The only thing I'm worried about is how she'll stand up under actual enemy fire. ",
"We've seen some good SEALs come apart at the seams when the bastards start shooting at us.\"",
"\n\n\"True, 2IC. ",
"But that's one test you can't give a SEAL. ",
"You have to wait and have that trial under fire to be sure. ",
"My guess is that she'll be twice as good in action as she is in training. ",
"Let's go jump some waves and surf in on some of those five footers out there.\"",
"\n_14_\n\n# Wednesday, October 26\n\n## **0112 hours \nMurrah's house \nTehran, Iran**\n\nJoe Douglas watched the dancer for a moment, then snapped his finger against the expensive stemware. ",
"It rang like a silver bell. ",
"Everyone at the table looked at him.",
"\n\n\"If we can't find out from here where the damn plant is, then it's logical that we have to get down there to the south and dig out the location on the spot.\"",
"\n\n\"But it's fifteen hundred miles or more all the way to the southern border of the country,\" George said. \"",
"How can we get down there?\"",
"\n\n\"Hitchhike, steal a car—I don't know, but we've got to be on-site down there to find the damn place,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"I might be able to help,\" the dancer said. \"",
"Tomorrow I have to go far south to the town of Bandar-e 'Abbas. ",
"It's on the Straight of Hormuz. ",
"That's only about four hundred miles north of Chah Bahar.\"",
"\n\n\"Going down there,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Could I ask how?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"I rent a plane at the airport here and fly down. ",
"I understand there's a small airport at Chah Bahar, but the four of us arriving for no obvious reason would stir up a lot of Secret Police and military questions.\"",
"\n\n\"You mean we could ride in your plane down to Bandar-e without the authorities asking about us?\"",
"\n\n\"I do have a little bit of influence in this country. ",
"You'll be going as my bodyguards. ",
"I always travel with one or two. ",
"Three is not unheard of.\"",
"\n\nGeorge frowned. \"",
"So we get that far, how do we get on to Chah Bahar?\"",
"\n\n\"Rent a car,\" Murrah said. \"",
"I can do so without a question. ",
"I'll tell them it's for a vacation, and I've never been that far south before. ",
"You'd be surprised how many people, and officials, will let me break a lot of the rules.\"",
"\n\n\"If we're voting, I'd say it's a go,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Sounds good to me,\" Douglas chimed in. \"",
"Once we get to that town, we can start working our way out those roads and feel our way along until we find the sucker.\"",
"\n\nGeorge still had his frown. \"",
"I don't know. ",
"I'm not comfortable exposed that way. ",
"In Tehran, I can melt into the community. ",
"I'm going to have to check with the Office on this.\"",
"\n\n\"Don't bother,\" Douglas said. \"",
"You stay here and we'll go with Murrah down south and find the damned location.\"",
"\n\nGeorge sighed, and at last nodded. \"",
"Yes, you're right. ",
"I haven't done the job up here. ",
"I'd say it can't be done here. ",
"So we go south. ",
"If it's still all right with Murrah.\"",
"\n\n\"I'd be delighted. ",
"You'll stay here tonight. ",
"I'll outfit you in some different clothes, and we'll take two or three suitcases. ",
"I have jackets that are just alike that should fit the three of you. ",
"Yes, let's do it. ",
"I have some phone calls to make. ",
"Lotus will show each of you to your room. ",
"We'll be up early. ",
"I like to fly out before seven A.M. It's an hour to the airport in my car.\"",
"\n\nLotus, the maid, arrived on cue, and motioned the three men to follow her. ",
"Murrah took a cordless phone from its set in a drawer in the arm of one of the large sofas, and made her calls.",
"\n\nA half hour later, Joe Douglas had turned off the light in the room he had been shown to. ",
"He had stripped to his shorts and slid between white sheets. ",
"Murrah lived like a queen in this poverty-drenched country.",
"\n\nHe had just closed his eyes, when he heard his door open. ",
"Damn. ",
"His pistol was halfway across the room.",
"\n\n\"Don't be alarmed, Joe Douglas,\" Murrah said softly. ",
"She turned on one of the small lamps and sat down on the bed beside him. ",
"She wore a thin, wispy see-through gown.",
"\n\n\"Joe Douglas, did you enjoy my dancing tonight?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, fantastic. ",
"I still don't see how you can shake that way.\"",
"\n\nShe laughed. \"",
"It is a gift and a craft. ",
"Tell me, was I sexy?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yes, absolutely.\"",
"\n\n\"Did you fantasize about me just a little?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\n\"Good.\" ",
"She slipped off the light robe and stood naked in front of him. ",
"Then she slid into the bed beside him.",
"\n\n\"Joe Douglas, tonight I want you to dance with me many times.\"",
"\n\nDouglas couldn't stop a big grin. \"",
"Hey, that's one dance I think I can do good enough to keep you happy.\"",
"\n\n\"Enough talk, Joe Douglas. ",
"Enough talk.\"",
"\n\nThe early morning at Murrah's house was a blur for Colt Franklin and Joe Douglas. ",
"They were awakened about four, fed, given new clothes with matching brown jackets, then ushered into a Mercedes Benz sedan and driven swiftly to the Tehran airport. ",
"They went through a side gate to a private hangar.",
"\n\nIn ten minutes, they had loaded onboard a six-passenger aircraft, of some European make not even Joe Douglas could determine, and taken off. ",
"Douglas checked his watch. ",
"It was a little after 0653.",
"\n\n\"We'll be flying at one hundred seventy-five miles an hour, and have to make one stop for fuel in Shiraz,\" Murrah told them.",
"\n\n\"When will we get to our destination?\" ",
"George asked.",
"\n\n\"It's about seven hours with the stop,\" she said. \"",
"We should land in Bandar-e 'Abbas a little after two in the afternoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Then what's the program?\" ",
"Douglas asked. ",
"She had made sure to sit beside him in the rear two seats, and when no one was looking, her hand strayed over to his thigh.",
"\n\n\"In Iran, speed is not important. ",
"If we try to move too quickly, we could stir up some suspicion. ",
"I have canceled my performance for tomorrow night, a case of the flu. ",
"We'll stay tonight at a small inn where I have friends. ",
"That will give them time to find a car for me that won't be noticed. ",
"We'll leave early in the morning. ",
"Will that be fast enough?\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds fine,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Take us most of the day to drive on to Chah Bahar, I'd guess,\" George said.",
"\n\n\"The farther we go south, the worse the roads become, but we should be able to maintain a forty miles per hour average.\" ",
"Murrah hurried on. \"",
"I know that's not fast by American standards, but it's the best we can do on our secondary roads.\"",
"\n\n\"Only a ten-hour car ride,\" Franklin said. \"",
"We'll be getting on-site faster than I had hoped.\"",
"\n\n\"Tonight I'll find a spot, and send our plans to Don Stroh and company, unless George wants to unlimber his SATCOM,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThe CIA agent waved. \"",
"Help yourself.\"",
"\n\nConversation tapered off then. ",
"Murrah went to sleep with her head on Joe Douglas's shoulder, and her hand halfway up his thigh. ",
"He moved it away gently.",
"\n\nThey made their fuel stop, and took off without incident. ",
"Later they landed at the small airport at Bandar-e 'Abbas. ",
"They taxied to a small private hangar where a car waited for them.",
"\n\n\"Nothing like traveling first class,\" Guns Franklin said. ",
"The other two Americans agreed with him.",
"\n\nThere was no military security at the airport, which surprised Douglas.",
"\n\nTwo miles later, they drove into a courtyard and a big door closed behind them. ",
"A woman rushed out of the inn and hugged Murrah. ",
"They talked for a minute, then the men got out of the car. ",
"There were brief introductions, then they went inside.",
"\n\nTen minutes later, on the roof of the three-story inn, Douglas set up the SATCOM and worked on his message.",
"\n\n\"Flew three-quarters of the way to Chah Bahar. ",
"Going on there tomorrow by car. ",
"Have help of famous person who is sympathetic. ",
"George is with us. ",
"Will listen at regular times. ",
"Any suggestions?\"",
"\n\nHe read it over twice, let George look at it, then hit the send button, and the burst of energy shot out of the antenna in a millisecond, straight to the satellite.",
"\n\nThe men stayed inside the compound. ",
"Douglas and Franklin were feeling antsy, so they had a push-up contest. ",
"Franklin, the former gymnast, won with a hundred and forty-seven. ",
"After a short rest they ran around the courtyard until they sweat through their clothes.",
"\n\nAt midnight, Douglas had the SATCOM set put up, the antenna tuned in, and the radio turned to receive. ",
"The message came through promptly at midnight, local time. ",
"Douglas had no idea what time it was wherever Don Stroh had landed.",
"\n\nThe encrypto mechanism in the set spilled out the message in plain English on the readout screen.",
"\n\n\"Douglas. ",
"Approve move south. ",
"Keep body count low. ",
"Make any KIAs look like accidents. ",
"Security is high all over Chah Bahar area. ",
"Douglas is CO of operation. ",
"New satellite photos of area coming in. ",
"Will give you layout of major roads out of Chah soon. ",
"We need location of target to within a quarter mile. ",
"Be careful. ",
"Stroh.\"",
"\n\nGeorge and Franklin read the message. ",
"George waved. \"",
"Hey, down here I'm out of my element. ",
"I'm not a country kind of guy. ",
"I'll follow your lead.\"",
"\n\n\"The fucking highways out of town are the key,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Wish we had a fax on this thing. ",
"We'll have to use compass directions. ",
"Can't be many roads to go nowhere.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, but getting on them, following them without being stopped by those military guards, will be the trick,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nAbout the same time in Tehran, General Ruhollah paced his office. ",
"They were too close now to permit anything to go wrong. ",
"Another three weeks and the men at the plant said the first device would be ready.",
"\n\n_Only three weeks!_",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah could hardly believe it. ",
"He had pushed hard for the development of their own nuclear capability. ",
"He had had trouble at times, but had bulled through every roadblock. ",
"He had pinched money from many sources to fund the program. ",
"Now only three weeks away!",
"\n\nBut there was something going on that he didn't like. ",
"The U.S. CIA had been too active lately. ",
"One Iranian agent had been killed, the top CIA man was on the run. ",
"They had quashed three small Iranian groups who had fought the very idea of a nuclear facility. ",
"The large man, Tauksaun, was contained in his apartment. ",
"Anyone who came to see him was picked up for questioning. ",
"They would soon have a phone tap on his three phone lines.",
"\n\nStill there was something else. ",
"It was more a feeling than any hard facts he had. ",
"The dancer, Murrah, was one he had not been able to touch. ",
"He knew she was involved with one of the small anti-nuclear groups. ",
"He wasn't sure which one or what they could do. ",
"His last report today was that she was not at her usual performance restaurant.",
"\n\nHe checked and found that she had a series of dance engagements in Bandar-e 'Abbas. ",
"Yes, his men reported that she had rented the usual plane she often used and flown out that morning with the southern city her destination on the flight plan.",
"\n\nHer plane had landed there earlier today.",
"\n\nStill he wondered. ",
"It was only four hundred miles on to Chah Bahar. ",
"There were no indications that she was going to go there. ",
"Still it worried him.",
"\n\nMore and more people knew that \"something\" had been built in the mountains above the southern city. ",
"A project this big could not be done in secret. ",
"The construction people alone numbered over a thousand. ",
"But they didn't know what they were building.",
"\n\nThe lens grinders had been the biggest security leak. ",
"They didn't know what they worked on, but educated guesses could be made. ",
"Secrecy plus the intricate grinding process must have led many to speculate.",
"\n\nOnly three more weeks.",
"\n\nHe made up his mind in a flash, the way he always did. ",
"Tomorrow he would fly to Chah Bahar. ",
"The small airstrip was large enough for his personal plane to land. ",
"In the morning he would order two more companies of infantry troops to report to the main security building in Chah Bahar. ",
"That would make four companies, about eight hundred men. ",
"He wished he could station some of their jet fighters there, but the runway wasn't long enough. ",
"Perhaps at the Bandar-e 'Abbas airport. ",
"He would have to check it. ",
"He could send six attack helicopters to Chah Bahar. ",
"The French ones they bought last month would do fine.",
"\n\nIf anyone tried to disrupt the work at the nuclear plant, they would be in for a huge surprise. ",
"He had no idea what to expect. ",
"He guessed that the CIA knew of the program by now. ",
"Such a huge undertaking was hard to keep totally under wraps.",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah went to his telephone and made three calls. ",
"The plane would be ready in the morning at six o'clock. ",
"It was the smaller one that could land at Chah. ",
"At 200 mph top speed, it would take most of the day to get there. ",
"Then he would look over the security, and welcome the new troops that would arrive in three days.",
"\n\nIf anyone tried to get within ten miles of the plant, they would be met with deadly force.",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah poured a small glass of bourbon from a secret bottle in his desk. ",
"No good Muslim drank liquor. ",
"He sighed and tipped the glass. ",
"He had spent too much time in England as an attaché. ",
"Maybe he wasn't a good Muslim. ",
"It didn't matter one way or the other. ",
"He had little patience with the old-timers, the hard-liners who wanted Iran's 70 million people to turn back the clock and live the way their grandfathers had.",
"\n\nIt was a new world.",
"\n\nIran must be ready to compete.",
"\n\nIran must be ready to defend herself with nuclear weapons.",
"\n\nIran must be ready to conquer the five big Arab states on the peninsula. ",
"Then they would speak with one voice to the West. ",
"They would dictate the terms of world commerce and the price of their oil.",
"\n\nIran must be ready!",
"\n\nWith six nuclear bombs, they would be ready.",
"\n_15_\n\n# Thursday, October 27\n\n## **1826 hours \nA safe house \nBandar-e 'Abbas, Iran**\n\nThey heard the news just after dinner. ",
"A young man on a scruffy-looking motorcycle pulled in through the inn's main doors and was met with food and a long drink of cold water. ",
"He talked quietly with the owner of the inn and Murrah. ",
"Douglas watched the conversation from his second-floor window looking into the courtyard, and he could tell it was bad news.",
"\n\nDouglas took the steps three at a time and ran down into the courtyard. ",
"The talk continued. ",
"It was in Farsi or something else he didn't understand. ",
"After two exchanges, Murrah turned to Douglas.",
"\n\n\"We have problem. ",
"There is an army unit at Jask turning everyone around who tries to go toward Chah Bahar. ",
"Even those who live there must stop and give details about their lives, and their identification papers. ",
"The roadblock is tight.\"",
"\n\n\"How far is Jask?\"",
"\n\n\"Halfway, about two hundred miles,\" Murrah said.",
"\n\n\"I move we get there as fast as we can. ",
"Leave in a half hour. ",
"Then we'll be there in the dark.\"",
"\n\nMurrah shook her head. \"",
"How will that help us?\"",
"\n\n\"We'll share riding the pony. ",
"We travel down that way, and as soon as we spot the roadblock ahead, the three of us will get off while you and your driver continue on. ",
"You're a star in this country. ",
"Tell them that you're going to Chah Bahar to entertain the soldiers stationed there. ",
"It's a sudden impulse you had to cheer up the troop on such rigorous duty.\"",
"\n\nMurrah began to smile as he outlined the plan, then she smiled broadly, and kissed his cheek.",
"\n\n\"Yes, it will work. ",
"I've gotten into war areas more than once in the past. ",
"Yes, they will let me through.\"",
"\n\n\"While you chat with the guards, the three of us will circle around the roadblock well into the darkness of the countryside. ",
"When we see you get through, we'll head for the road well down and out of sight of the block. ",
"We'll get back in the car and hope that's the last roadblock we meet.\"",
"\n\nMurrah nodded. \"",
"Yes, yes, it could work. ",
"I'll have a good story worked up, but we have two hundred miles for me to figure it out. ",
"Yes. ",
"I'll get talking to some people and get things ready. ",
"They have the car for us. ",
"Good enough to make the run on one tank full of petrol, but not flashy enough to get us in trouble.",
"\n\n\"You round up your two friends, and get them down here in fifteen minutes. ",
"I'll need that long to get some basic supplies and some of my performance gear packed in the suitcase. ",
"I'm never without at least two outfits. ",
"Hurry now.\"",
"\n\nMurrah questioned the cycle rider again. ",
"He told her that the roadblock was just past the far side of Jask, so it didn't interfere with local traffic. ",
"When he was stopped, there were three soldiers and an officer in a closed car. ",
"Two full-sized trucks stretched across the two-lane road from ditch to ditch. ",
"One older car had tried to run the blockade going around the side. ",
"It had been shot full of holes, and rolled into the ditch, where the driver and two passengers died.",
"\n\nThe soldiers left it there as an object lesson.",
"\n\nThe soldiers all had submachine guns. ",
"He didn't know what type, but they scared hell out of him. ",
"He turned around the first time he was ordered to do so, without a word of protest.",
"\n\n\"Love to have those sub-guns,\" Franklin said. \"",
"How can we make it look like an accident if we take out that block?\"",
"\n\n\"No way. ",
"Besides the officer in the closed car must have a radio and the word would be out on us before we could go to cover come daylight.\"",
"\n\n\"Afraid so,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Maybe the next roadblock will be smaller, and we can do some good. ",
"Hate to be here in enemy territory with only this little peashooter.\"",
"\n\n\"That's a Roger. ",
"We'll see what develops. ",
"You can't make an oyster stew without killing a few oysters.\"",
"\n\n\"Huh?\"",
"\n\n\"Nothing. ",
"Let's get in this car, and try to look like natives.\"",
"\n\nThe road south was worse than they had imagined. ",
"By the time they got to Jask, it was after midnight. ",
"Their Iranian driver found the right road south but mostly west along the shoreline of the Gulf of Oman. ",
"Five miles out of the main port of town, they spotted the roadblock ahead.",
"\n\nJust as the cyclist had said, it was a good one. ",
"The death car had been pulled away, but the two large trucks with trailers still blocked the road. ",
"A jeep sat in front of it with a mounted .30-caliber machine gun. ",
"A staff car showed to one side. ",
"Two armed soldiers stood at the barricade.",
"\n\nThe three Americans bailed out of the sedan while it kept moving. ",
"They vanished into the inland side, and moved cautiously through the sparse vegetation. ",
"It wasn't a desert land, but almost.",
"\n\nDouglas watched the sedan roll on down the road, and soon stop at the checkpoint. ",
"They jogged then, moving as fast as they could over the uneven ground.",
"\n\nGeorge lagged behind. ",
"They waited for him twice. ",
"Douglas cut the speed down so the big CIA man could stay with them. ",
"They were a hundred yards into the landscape when they came even with the barricade. ",
"There were no wires or warning devices they could see or feel.",
"\n\nThey saw the two soldiers talking with Murrah, then an officer came from the staff car. ",
"There was some laughter. ",
"Then as they hurried on past, the Americans heard one of the big trucks' engines start, and the truck pulled out of the way for the star dancer's car to slip through.",
"\n\n\"Could have taken the three of them easy,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Easy, but how would it have looked like an accident? ",
"Remember, we can't leave a bunch of bodies around, at least not until we get some backup—like the rest of Third Platoon.\"",
"\n\nThey went faster then, and slanted toward the road. ",
"They were two hundred yards down the blacktopped highway when they got back to the road. ",
"The car had moved away from the barricade slowly. ",
"Now they ran to match its ten-mile-an-hour speed, and get on board.",
"\n\n\"Made it,\" Murrah said when the three were safely in the backseat. \"",
"There's one more roadblock ahead, but the Captain said I should have no trouble. ",
"All I had to do was mention that I was coming at the specific invitation of General Reza Ruhollah. ",
"He's one of the big movers in the new Iranian Army.\"",
"\n\n\"How far to the next block?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Halfway, about a hundred miles. ",
"That's about three hours the way we're moving. ",
"At least we won't have to worry about any other traffic on the road.\"",
"\n\nIt was a little after 0300 when they spotted the next roadblock.",
"\n\n\"This one we're taking out,\" Douglas said. \"",
"We need some weapons. ",
"We'll make it look like an accident some how. ",
"Pull up the same way, go a little slower as you get close. ",
"If there's an officer, get him out to talk. ",
"We'll come in from the darkness at each side. ",
"Try not to get too close to any of them, and don't get between them.\"",
"\n\nFranklin watched the dancer. \"",
"He's saying there's going to be some shooting. ",
"The closer we can get with these little parabellums the better.\"",
"\n\nThey left the car the same way, hit the ditches on each side of the road, and ran, keeping pace with the car. ",
"It slowed more as it came up to the headlights that now shown from the two vehicles. ",
"There were no big trucks at this spot.",
"\n\nThe car stopped fifteen feet from the Army vehicle, and the driver got out quickly. ",
"He jabbered something, and the soldiers came forward.",
"\n\nWhen Murrah left the car, it was a grand entrance. ",
"The soldiers let their submachine guns swing down and gawked. ",
"An officer came out at once. ",
"He showed no weapon, and was all smiles.",
"\n\nFranklin and Douglas had agreed to shoot over the heads of the Iranians. ",
"They didn't want bullet holes showing up in the bodies later.",
"\n\nThe SEALs shot almost at the same time. ",
"Franklin barked out in Farsi, telling the men to lay down their weapons at once or they would be riddled with bullets. ",
"The soldiers did as they were told. ",
"The officer made a lunge for his car, where he must have left his weapon. ",
"Murrah's driver tackled him, and by then Franklin and Douglas were on the scene. ",
"They had noticed a cliff of sorts that dropped off here almost into the Gulf of Oman. ",
"It would be a hundred-foot fall.",
"\n\nDouglas took one of the soldiers, put him in the jeep, and backed it out. ",
"He drove toward the cliffs and parked. ",
"He kept the man under his own submachine gun.",
"\n\nDouglas found the right spot, then pushed the Iranian into the jeep's driver's seat and slashed him with the butt of the submachine gun. ",
"It took two blows to put him out. ",
"Then Douglas started the jeep, put it in gear, and steered it straight for the drop-off. ",
"It went over with a scraping of the undercarriage. ",
"He heard the crash far below, and glass breaking, then silence.",
"\n\nHe went back to help Franklin. ",
"He had tied the officer's hands, and had both men in the officer's car. ",
"Franklin drove the rig to the cliff and got out.",
"\n\nThey put the soldier in the driver's seat and the officer in the back, then slugged them with their weapons. ",
"They took the ties off the hands of the officer, then angled the small sedan off the same cliff. ",
"It crashed far below in the rocks and incoming tide. ",
"It should take the Iranian police, and the military, at least a week to figure out what happened at this poorly manned roadblock.",
"\n\nBack at Murrah's sedan, they said nothing, just motioned the rig forward. ",
"George started to say something, then thought better of it. ",
"They had the two submachine guns and found six 30-round magazines for each one. ",
"They were simple to use. ",
"George also found a 14-round pistol in the officer's gear.",
"\n\nMurrah broke the silence. \"",
"I'm glad that's over. ",
"At least now we'll have a clear run into Chah Bahar. ",
"I know a few people there. ",
"We should be able to find a safe house before morning. ",
"Then I and my driver will see what we can find out about the highways to the north. ",
"Somebody must know something. ",
"How can such a huge project be kept so secret?\"",
"\n\n\"There's a chance that most of the people living here are paid by the Secret Police and the army not to say a word about it,\" George said. \"",
"I've heard such talk.\"",
"\n\nMurrah nodded. \"",
"I've heard that talk as well, but there is no chance to keep this many people quiet about something like this. ",
"We had a small group of protesters here for a while, but three of them were killed when they were said to be trying to escape from jail. ",
"They were simply murdered. ",
"I've got a lot of scores to settle.\"",
"\n\nThe car crept into Chah Bahar with lights off. ",
"They sat in shadows watching the main street. ",
"They saw no police cars, no roving military patrols. ",
"They turned off the main street into some sparsely settled areas, and soon came to a house better than the rest. ",
"Murrah sent her driver in to knock on the door.",
"\n\nFive minutes later, they all were inside the house, and the car had been hidden behind it. ",
"A man and woman came into the room, and there was much hugging and crying by the two and Murrah. ",
"Then she wiped her tears, and introduced them to the three Americans.",
"\n\n\"These people are my dear friends who used to live in Tehran. ",
"They have kept out of trouble here with the authorities, but have been our listening post, and sent us mail reports.",
"\n\n\"Now it seems that security has been stepped up. ",
"They know the main road into the hills, but have no idea where the trucks vanish to after that.\"",
"\n\nDouglas rubbed his face and nodded. \"",
"Is there any way that Guns and me can get back in there? ",
"Fifty miles and then a turn. ",
"Do they agree with the distance?\"",
"\n\nFranklin asked the question in Farsi, and the man, who was tall with thinning gray hair, smiled. ",
"He replied in the same tongue.",
"\n\n\"I'm pleased you speak our language so well. ",
"You can't drive in there. ",
"The road is constantly patrolled and no one is allowed in that area. ",
"The only solution may be to disguise you as prospectors. ",
"There are still crazy men who risk being shot hunting for copper and chromium back here in our hills to the north. ",
"There's a huge chromium mine up by Bandar-e, and nuts think they can find another one in the mountains down here.\"",
"\n\nFranklin briefed Douglas on what the host had said.",
"\n\n\"You mean a prospector with a donkey, a pick, and a sack full of food?\"",
"\n\nThe Iranian chuckled. \"",
"More likely a beat-up old jeep or a falling-apart sedan, and a backseat full of food and water. ",
"That would give you cover, and let you move longer distances. ",
"Most of the wildcat prospectors use this kind of a rig these days.\"",
"\n\n\"They get shot at?\" ",
"Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Routinely. ",
"When they get too close to a closed area or one patrolled. ",
"The guards, and the helicopters, do it mostly for sport, and target practice. ",
"They don't really chase them unless they really move in too close.\"",
"\n\n\"Which way do you guess the big plant is, to the left or right of the end of that highway?\"",
"\n\n\"I simply don't know. ",
"It could be either way.\"",
"\n\nDouglas figured their host was in his fifties. ",
"Murrah said he was a teacher in the local school system, teacher and principal. ",
"He was a highly respected man in Chah Bahar, and had the full respect of the local authorities, and the military units posted to the town.",
"\n\n\"How much army is there here?\" ",
"Douglas asked. ",
"Murrah interpreted for him.",
"\n\n\"Roughly two hundred men,\" the host said. \"",
"They rotate in units of fifty up to guard duty around the facility. ",
"They are gone for a week, then another fifty go up to replace them and the first group returns in trucks.\"",
"\n\n\"Do you have military law here?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Yes and no.\"",
"\n\nThe woman of the house left, and soon returned with rolls and coffee. ",
"It was almost daylight outside.",
"\n\n\"We have civil law. ",
"Judges, courts, but this is strongly slanted toward the religious leaders. ",
"If there is any problem, the military have the final say, or so it would seem down here. ",
"We are a long way from Tehran.\"",
"\n\nWhen the rolls and coffee were gone, Murrah said now was the time for some sleep. ",
"She would need to put in an appearance at the town's main meeting hall the following night. ",
"The guards at the first roadblock would be sure to radio their men down here that the famous dancer was coming.",
"\n\n\"Between now and then I'll help arrange for a prospector's car for the two of you. ",
"It'll be all outfitted with food and water and supplies and ready to roll.\"",
"\n\nDouglas brought out a stack of ten-thousand-rial notes and gave them to Murrah. \"",
"I know this sort of thing costs money. ",
"Uncle Sam will pay his way. ",
"If that's not enough, we have more.\"",
"\n\nMurrah leafed through the bills and smiled. \"",
"Do you know how much money this is? ",
"It's a fortune to the average Iranian. ",
"I'll put it to good use, without tipping our hand. ",
"Now, off to bed, all of you. ",
"I need to make some early morning arrangements before I get to sleep.\"",
"\n\nDouglas went to the flat roof on the house and set up his radio antenna. ",
"He adjusted it to the satellite, then sent off a quick message to Stroh: \"Stroh: At Chah Bahar. ",
"Contacts here good. ",
"Will be moving out in old car into hills as prospectors. ",
"Many do this in these hills. ",
"Try to penetrate to the road and see which way it turns. ",
"Any satellite photos to help us? ",
"Read them and send us directions. ",
"Be a big help. ",
"All else cool. ",
"Three Iranians had an accident at a roadblock, but all is taken care of. ",
"Douglas.\"",
"\n\nDouglas folded up the fanlike antenna and stowed it, then hit his bed. ",
"It was going to be a long day even after he woke up.",
"\n_16_\n\n# Friday, October 28\n\n## 0814 hours \nSEAL training base \nCoronado, California\n\nSixteen SEALs and Kat Garnet swam fifteen feet underwater in the blue Pacific Ocean a half mile off the Silver Strand that linked Coronado to Imperial Beach. ",
"They moved forward with a steady stroke using their Drager LAR-V rebreathers. ",
"They use pure oxygen that is recycled through the device to eliminate any of the telltale bubbles that follow ordinary SCUBA divers.",
"\n\nThis new model Drager was worn on the chest, and the SEAL's personal weapon was strapped on his back. ",
"They had on their usual black wet suits, hoods and boots.",
"\n\nLieutenant Blake Murdock looked around through the clear greenish water. ",
"Visibility good, at least twenty feet. ",
"Slightly ahead, and tied to him by a buddy cord, swam Joe \"Ricochet\" Lampedusa, his new lead scout. ",
"The rest of them were also paired with six-foot-long cords so they could stay together.",
"\n\nTied with Ron Holt was Kat Garnet. ",
"Holt was the platoon radio operator who carried the fifteen-pound SATCOM set.",
"\n\nNext in line were Magic Brown and Kenneth Ching. ",
"Murdock watched Kat. ",
"She had taken the first two days of training with the Drager in stride. ",
"But then she had been an instructor with SCUBA back in Washington, D.C., so the Drager was no stretch.",
"\n\nShe carried the full load of combat gear the other SEALs had, including the combat vest with ammo for her MP-5, K-bar knife, canteen, and the belt Mark 23 MOD O .45 pistol.",
"\n\nSo far so good.",
"\n\nThey had entered the water a half hour before, swam out a half mile, and now were on the way back. ",
"This was another exercise to get Kat integrated into the platoon operation as smoothly as possible.",
"\n\nThey all had live rounds in their weapons. ",
"Kat was getting used to her MP-5 and firing it. ",
"She had daily firing practice now. ",
"During the past two days she had taken six parachute jumps at Brown Field, a civilian airport near the border with Mexico. ",
"A jump school over there contracted with the SEALs for refresher jumps and in this case shepherded Kat through her jumps with full gear. ",
"Murdock had limited her load to forty pounds, which still make a big difference in the way her rectangular chute opened and drifted.",
"\n\n\"A lot different than the round chutes I used before, with no load other than me,\" she told him.",
"\n\nThey had completed her rush training course in the elements that SEALs must know. ",
"Now they were in a crash operation to get her used to working within the group. ",
"Most was land training, since they would most likely drop into the mountains of Iran, and go by ground to the suspect facility. ",
"By now, Kat was more than trained on the Drager to make an exit from Iran by water if they needed to.",
"\n\nAs they neared the beach, Murdock held up his hand and stopped the first pair of swimmers. ",
"They passed the sign along until the platoon was assembled, then they went to the surface.",
"\n\nIt was to be a normal assault landing on a beach. ",
"They treaded water with their mouths barely out and the Dragers unhooked.",
"\n\nMurdock waved his right hand, and Lampedusa ducked underwater and swam hard for the beach. ",
"He came out of the last wave and lay in the sand without moving. ",
"Slowly, a half-inch at a time, he turned his head to scan the beach. ",
"When he was sure it was secure, he lifted his right arm and brought it down toward the sand.",
"\n\nSix more SEALs from the first squad powered toward the beach, surfed in on the last wave, and lay motionless on the wet sand, where an occasional wave washed over them.",
"\n\nHalf a minute later the rest of the platoon surfed in on the four-foot waves and lay on the beach. ",
"Kat knew exactly what to do. ",
"She had rehearsed this with Jaybird a dozen times on dry land. ",
"When she saw the hand raised, she moved with the others. ",
"They had cut their buddy cords. ",
"She swam furiously, surfed down the last breaker, and was the second man in the platoon to go to ground on the wet sand.",
"\n\nOn another signal from Murdock, the SEALs crawled forward, pulled their weapons off their backs, emptied out the water, and charged a round into the chambers. ",
"Kat was in sync with the rest of the platoon.",
"\n\nThe two snipers leaped up, charged across the dry sand to a small dune, and went prone behind it, simulating fire to the front. ",
"On signal the first squad charged the dune and spread out around it, facing the shore. ",
"Kat bellied down in the sand, her MP-5 up and ready to fire. ",
"She lay six feet from Ron Holt, where she had been assigned.",
"\n\nSecond squad raced out of the wet sand, came near the dry dune, and spread out facing the water as a rear guard. ",
"Murdock gave another hand signal and Miguel Fernandez leaped up, raced up beside the snipers, set up his machine gun, and chambered the first round. ",
"He held up his hand to show that he was ready.",
"\n\nMurdock gave him a signal and he simulated firing.",
"\n\nThe next move came as Murdock leaped up. ",
"The rest of first squad lifted as a unit with him, and charged past the machine gunner, through the sand toward the highway fifty yard inland. ",
"At the edge of the highway, Murdock went prone, and the squad followed.",
"\n\nA moment later the machine gunner Fernandez and second squad charged up beside them.",
"\n\nMurdock stood. \"",
"Gather around,\" he barked, and the SEALs pulled up nearby and sat.",
"\n\n\"Not bad. ",
"A little ragged getting the second squad to shore. ",
"Get your buddy lines cut quicker so you're ready. ",
"Kat, any problems?\"",
"\n\n\"No. ",
"That Drager is a sweetheart. ",
"I want to take one home with me.\"",
"\n\n\"You can. ",
"They price out a little over three thousand dollars.\"",
"\n\n\"On the other hand...,\" Kat said, and the SEALs laughed.",
"\n\n\"Kat, you kept up with us, you stayed in your position, you took to the sand in good form, and you charged across it like a veteran. ",
"How does it feel to swim and run with forty pounds of gear?\"",
"\n\n\"Better than if had sixty.\"",
"\n\nThe SEALs hooted and jeered at Murdock.",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. ",
"In a week this small lady had won the hearts of every man in the platoon. ",
"Now all he had to be sure of was that she could carry her load, keep herself alive, and didn't cause any of his men to get wasted. ",
"Oh, yeah, and he had to be careful that none of his SEALs put himself in danger trying to help out Kat.",
"\n\n\"Let's get back to the OP shack. ",
"I want you to change into dry cammies. ",
"We're going for a ride in forty-five, so hustle.\"",
"\n\n\"Where we riding to, L-T?\" ",
"Jaybird asked.",
"\n\n\"Didn't tell you chief? ",
"We're headed for Niland and a little bit of live firing practice, in formation. ",
"Kat, you can change in my office. ",
"Let's move it. ",
"Jaybird, a column of ducks and double time.\"",
"\n\nThe squads formed in a column of twos automatically, and Murdock and Jaybird led them the two miles down the wet sand to the SEAL Grinder. ",
"Kat ran beside Holt. ",
"She had no trouble keeping up. ",
"Holt looked over at her and gave her a thumbs-up.",
"\n\nKat Garnet, physics professor, nuclear weapons breakdown expert, and temporary SEAL, grinned.",
"\n\nFour hours later, the Third Platoon had saddled up with full combat gear, personal weapons, and regular ammo load, and headed across country from their Navy bus at the edge of the Navy's Chocolate Mountain Gunnery Range in the California desert.",
"\n\nMurdock had given them the orders before they started out from the bus. \"",
"Our mission today is to take Hill 284. ",
"It's about five miles out to the left. ",
"First we find it, then we assault it, and we hope we don't kill any of our own men—or women. ",
"This is a live-fire drill.\"",
"\n\nHe turned to Kat.",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant Garnet, do you read me?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"We have live rounds. ",
"We follow standard procedures, and fire in our designated areas, and do not endanger any friendlies.\"",
"\n\n\"Right, remember that.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked out in combat style. ",
"Lampedusa led off as scout, working a hundred yards ahead of the rest. ",
"They had two diamond formations side by side. ",
"Murdock led the point on first squad, followed closely by Ron Holt with the radio, and then Kat. ",
"She carried her MP-5, and six extra magazines.",
"\n\nFrom time to time, Kat stared down at the safety on the weapon. ",
"It was on. ",
"She didn't want to stumble and fire off a half dozen rounds. ",
"When the order to fire came, she would check to be sure her field of fire was clear of any friendly force, then fire in the indicated direction on single-shot or three-round burst. ",
"Yes. ",
"Now all she had to do was do it right. ",
"This was her first live-fire training exercise with the rest of the platoon.",
"\n\nThey were halfway out to the mountain in the hot afternoon sunshine of October, when Holt touched his mike button once, creating a one-shot _tsk_ on the radio. ",
"Sixteen SEALs hit the dirt, and lay without moving. ",
"Kat tried to look ahead. ",
"All she could see was Ron Holt's boots. ",
"She looked over at Magic Brown. ",
"She'd watch him.",
"\n\nMagic stood. ",
"Kat stood and saw the rest of the platoon on its feet and moving forward slowly toward where the scout remained on his stomach looking forward to the right.",
"\n\nThe radio receiver in her ear came on. ",
"It was Murdock. \"",
"We have some activity to the right front. ",
"First squad on the double, and form a line of skirmishers in the dirt on the scout. ",
"Move!\"",
"\n\nKat held her MP-5 in front of her and charged forward. ",
"The men raced ahead of her, but she caught them by the time they came to the scout, and all flopped on the ground with weapons pointing outward in a menacing line.",
"\n\nKat knew there would be no open-fire command. ",
"In the SEALs, when the platoon leader began firing, that was the signal for the rest of them to fire.",
"\n\nShe heard the stutter of Murdock's MP-5 and leveled in her own weapon, pushed off the safety to three-round burst, and fired six rounds. ",
"The weapon sounded strange. ",
"She fixed six more rounds. ",
"The earpiece gave three _tsks_ and the squad ceased fire.",
"\n\n\"Second squad form on our left flank,\" the radio speaker ordered. \"",
"Open fire when in place.\"",
"\n\nKat watched to her left and saw the second squad run into position, and the weapons chattered. ",
"She'd never heard so many guns firing at the same time in her life.",
"\n\n\"Cease fire, reform in diamonds,\" the radio whispered.",
"\n\nAs Kat moved back into formation behind Holt, Murdock fell into step behind her.",
"\n\n\"Good work back there, Kat. ",
"You moved well, stayed in position. ",
"Always remember before you fire to check for friendly forces in front of you. ",
"Somebody might get out of line, or get held up, even wounded. ",
"Check that field of fire first. ",
"It has to be an automatic every time you're in combat.\"",
"\n\nKat nodded, and he slapped her on the shoulder, and went back to lead the squad on toward the hill.",
"\n\nTwice more in the next mile they had fire missions. ",
"On the last one the first squad went into line and second squad formed up on their left flank at a 45-degree angle. ",
"Murdock fired, and the whole platoon fired, then stopped at the cease-fire three _tsks_ on the earpieces.",
"\n\n\"Kat,\" the earpiece spoke. \"",
"Take a look at the squad on the left, then lay down covering fire twenty yards in front of them. ",
"Now.\"",
"\n\nKat lifted her MP-5, pushed it to three-round bursts, and scattered a dozen shots in front of the Second Squad.",
"\n\n\"Cease fire, cease fire,\" the excited voice came over the radio. \"",
"Man down, we've got a man down, Second Squad. ",
"Get Doc over here fast.\"",
"\n\nKat's eyes went wide. ",
"She pushed the safety on her submachine gun. ",
"She had been the only one firing. ",
"Had she shot one of the platoon?",
"\n\nMurdock appeared at her elbow. \"",
"Kat, on me. ",
"Follow me.\" ",
"The two ran over the desert rocks, and past straggling sage and some dwarf plants to where the second squad had gathered around a man on the ground.",
"\n\nThey moved up, and the men gave way. ",
"Les Quinley, Torpedoman's Mate Third Class, lay on the rocky ground on his back. ",
"His eyes were closed, his chest a mass of red blood. ",
"Doc Ellsworth worked on him quickly, taking his vitals, trying to stop the blood flow from his chest.",
"\n\nDoc turned, and looked at Murdock. \"",
"Gonna need some help. ",
"Better have Holt ring up a chopper to get out here from North Island or Pendleton.\"",
"\n\n\"How bad is he, Doc?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Can't tell. ",
"Must have taken two right in the chest.\"",
"\n\nKat dropped to her knees and stared at Quinley. ",
"She picked up the SEAL's hand and then let it down. ",
"It was limp.",
"\n\n\"Murdock, I didn't mean to—\"\n\nHe cut her off. \"",
"Holt, get over here on the double and warm up the SATCOM.\"",
"\n\n\"Ed, was Quinley too far off line down there on the end?\"",
"\n\n\"No. ",
"He was within ten yards of the next man. ",
"Should have been safe.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, didn't I tell you to give support fire, _in front_ of Second Squad?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, sir, you did. ",
"I thought—\"\n\n\"No excuse!\" ",
"Murdock thundered. \"",
"The only answer to a fuckup like this is to say, no excuse.\"",
"\n\nKat lowered her head to her hands and blinked. ",
"She would not cry. ",
"There might not be any \"crying in baseball\" as the movie said. ",
"There sure as hell wasn't any crying in the SEALs.",
"\n\nSomebody snickered.",
"\n\nKat looked up.",
"\n\nA belly laugh launched from somewhere in the Second Squad.",
"\n\nKat stared around, wiping just-formed tears from her eyes.",
"\n\nShe looked down at Quinley, who now had one eye open.",
"\n\nMurdock's face was still grim. \"",
"Lieutenant, are you absolutely sure that you fired in front of Second Squad?\"",
"\n\nShe stared back at him. \"",
"Absolutely certain, Lieutenant. ",
"Fucking absolutely certain.\"",
"\n\n\"Atta girl,\" somebody shouted from the Second Squad.",
"\n\n\"Would you hurry this up?\" ",
"Quinley brayed from his apparent deathbed. \"",
"I've got a shithouse-sized fucking rock in the middle of my back.\"",
"\n\nKat punched Quinley in the belly and he rolled over and sat up. ",
"The blood pack fell off his cammies and the whole platoon roared with laughter.",
"\n\n\"You fuckers, you set me up,\" Kat screeched.",
"\n\nMurdock squatted beside her. \"",
"We had you, though, didn't we? ",
"Kat, I want you to check your magazine.\"",
"\n\nShe frowned, swung her MP-5 up, and pushed the mag release. ",
"She caught the magazine in her hand, and looked at the rounds still in it.",
"\n\n\"You really set me up. ",
"They're blanks. ",
"I've been firing blanks all afternoon.\" ",
"She turned toward Murdock, the weapon dropped to her knees. ",
"She balled her fists and bellowed in rage.",
"\n\n\"You whore-mongering, sonsabitching, mother-fucking, gonad-eating, umbuquatious assholes. ",
"You won't get me again. ",
"As I remember, Murdock, sir, you volunteered to load my magazines for me.\" ",
"Then she grinned. \"",
"I'm nominating the rest of you fifteen shit-kickers for a fucking Academy Award for best actors.\"",
"\n\n\"Welcome to the SEALs, Lieutenant Garnet,\" Jaybird said. \"",
"It's good to have you aboard.\"",
"\n\nEveryone cheered. ",
"Quinley cleaned up the blood pouch Doc had begged from the base infirmary, and they got ready to march.",
"\n\n\"Two more miles,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Let's get back in our diamond formation and haul ass.\"",
"\n\nGoing up the last two hundred yards to the top of the small rise, they laid down assault fire, then secured the peak and spread out in a protective formation on the reverse slope. ",
"Twice they fired down the slope. ",
"Kat had stowed magazines of blanks, borrowed hot rounds from some of the other MP-5 shooters, and joined in the exercise, glad to have live rounds again.",
"\n\nDeWitt remembered that Kat hadn't fired any of the 40mm grenades from the Colt M-4A1. ",
"Murdock approved, and she fired six HE rounds and then two WP. ",
"The white phosphorous started a small fire that Jaybird and four men attacked with entrenching tools, and had out before it had burned ten feet. ",
"The desert land offered little fuel, but at times annual grass could be a problem.",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch: 1725. ",
"He called the troops together. \"",
"Anybody want to camp out tonight, and have a twenty-mile hike tomorrow morning?\"",
"\n\nHe heard a few boos.",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"It's now 1725. ",
"We're five klicks from the bus. ",
"If we get back there by 1800, we turn turtle, and drive back to Coronado. ",
"That's six minutes to the mile. ",
"Kat will lead out; she knows this pace. ",
"Let's do it.\"",
"\n\nThey headed downhill. ",
"A six-minutes-to-the-mile pace is just a little slower than the professional marathoners go. ",
"With full combat gear it was a struggle and a strain. ",
"Kat held it for two miles, then checked the troops. ",
"They were strung out for a quarter of a mile.",
"\n\nMurdock called a halt while the stragglers caught up. ",
"When all were assembled, he relented.",
"\n\n\"Sorry some of you ladies couldn't keep up with our newest recruit SEAL. ",
"I see more hikes coming up. ",
"Okay, you've had a good drill, we'll walk the rest of the way, and still have that bus ride. ",
"Now, are we happy?\"",
"\n\n\"We're happy, sir!\" ",
"the SEALs bellowed in unison.",
"\n\n\"I asked if we're happy?\"",
"\n\nThis time the bellow came twice as loud followed by raucous cheers and shouts.",
"\n\nMurdock gave them the old Infantry signal of forward with his hand high over his head and then brought down to the front.",
"\n\nThe Navy bus pulled up in front of the SEAL quarterdeck just after 2100.",
"\n\nMurdock motioned to Kat as she stepped off the bus. \"",
"Lieutenant, there are some matters we need to discuss. ",
"Dinner tonight at the officers club at the Amphib Base. ",
"I'll meet you there in thirty minutes.\"",
"\n\n\"Cammies? ",
"That's all I have.\"",
"\n\n\"I think I can get you past the cop at the door.\"",
"\n\nAn hour later they sat at a back table next to the wall and worked on medium-rare steaks. ",
"Murdock took the lead before dessert came.",
"\n\n\"Kat, I owe you an explanation.\" ",
"He held up his hand when she started to protest. ",
"She relaxed.",
"\n\n\"Our little stunt today is standard for most of the new men we get in our platoon. ",
"A kind of wringing out and checking out. ",
"There's one thing we can't know when we train a man. ",
"How is he going to react in actual combat when the bad guys are shooting back trying to kill his ass dead.",
"\n\n\"It's the one intangible that every combat commander worries over until all of his men are blooded. ",
"This problem was magnified about tenfold when you were assigned here. ",
"You're a civilian, you had never fired a gun before, and you were a woman.\"",
"\n\n\"So?\" ",
"She watched him with a faint smile.",
"\n\n\"So far you've stood up to our training and physical regimen better than I expected. ",
"Far better, in fact. ",
"You didn't panic when you thought you might have killed one of your platoon. ",
"You took the guff and came up smiling. ",
"All A-plus in my book.\"",
"\n\n\"So far, so good, Lieutenant. ",
"You didn't buy me dinner—you did say you were buying; I don't have any money with me.\"",
"\n\nHe nodded.",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"We're not here to take a look at my report card. ",
"What else is in your craw?\"",
"\n\n\"Don Stroh, but he's another problem. ",
"I don't know if you researched us before you arrived?\"",
"\n\n\"I did. ",
"The U.S. Navy SEALs were established by presidential order in 1962 by John Kennedy. ",
"SEAL stands for SEa, Air, and Land. ",
"Most say that the SEAL teams are the foremost elite special operations forces in the world today. ",
"SEAL teams One and Two served in Vietnam. ",
"At that time they were fourteen-man platoons.",
"\n\n\"By 1990 there were seven SEAL teams to meet the expanding use of special operations and for covert work. ",
"They put teams One, Three, Five, and Seven here in Coronado at the Naval Special Warfare Group One. ",
"The rest of them, Teams Two, Four, and Eight, were headquartered at Little Creek, Virginia, in the command of the NAVSPECWARGRU-Two. ",
"The teams here were to be used in the Pacific area; the east coast teams would handle jobs in the Atlantic and Mediterranean areas.\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned as she clicked off the history of his outfit. \"",
"You have done some homework.\"",
"\n\n\"SEALs have the toughest, roughest, baddest training of any elite forces in the world, including the British SAS. ",
"It lasts six months and officers go through the same training as the other Bud guys, with one added duty. ",
"Officers must score at least ten percent higher on all tests than the enlisted men do.",
"\n\n\"This creates a strange and magnificent bonding between SEAL officers and men. ",
"SEALs know their officers have done the BUDs course—lifted the log, manned the IBS, run the obstacle course—and done it in the ocean on a ten-mile swim combat ready.",
"\n\n\"It's a spirit and motivation that few units have. ",
"These men depend on each other on every mission for their very lives. ",
"I've seen more dedication and devotion and dependent-bonding here in the past week than ever before in my life.\"",
"\n\nShe stopped and took a bite of the desert. ",
"She wasn't sure what it was, or how it tasted. ",
"She watched his eyes. ",
"They seemed to light up for a minute, then a grin spread over his handsome face and she smiled. \"",
"Coach, how did I do?\"",
"\n\n\"Glad we could have this little talk.\"",
"\n\nThey both burst out laughing. ",
"Neither of them said a word for a while. ",
"They concentrated on the desert. ",
"When it was gone and the final sips of wine vanished from their glasses, he picked up her hand and held it on the table.",
"\n\n\"Katherine, you did fine, to answer your question. ",
"One thing I noticed about you the first day you reported. ",
"We told you something once and you learned it and remembered it. ",
"We never had to repeat anything to you. ",
"It's an exceptional ability. ",
"Now for the big question of the day: Has DeWitt's lady invited you over for dinner yet?\"",
"\n\n\"No. ",
"Ed mentioned it once, but said the time wasn't quite right yet.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll see if I can get that worked out tomorrow. ",
"We got word today from Don Stroh that our men, Guns Franklin and Joe Douglas, are now somewhere near the nuclear facility north of the town of Chah Bahar in Iran. ",
"If they find that place in a rush, we won't have our month of training. ",
"I'm telling Don that as of tomorrow, we're combat ready. ",
"We can fly out anytime our boys find the target.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll probably drop in by parachute?\"",
"\n\n\"Fifty miles inland is a long walk. ",
"We'll probably go in my air for a low-level drop. ",
"Static line on the chute from a thousand to twelve hundred feet off the deck. ",
"Quick down and ready to fight.\"",
"\n\n\"Can we practice it once or twice here?\"",
"\n\nHe looked at her for several beats, then slowly shook his head. \"",
"Negative. ",
"There's a certain risk factor such as a broken arm or leg, maybe a bad landing and a broken back. ",
"We can take the risk on the actual hot drop. ",
"No way I'm risking you on a low-level training jump.\"",
"\n\nShe gave a quick sigh, and nodded. \"",
"Good. ",
"I wasn't looking forward to it. ",
"I've got bruises over half my body now from those other parachute jumps. ",
"Those straps really jerk you around when the chute opens.\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"Lieutenant, I think I better get you to your quarters. ",
"We have an oh-seven-thirty call in the morning.\"",
"\n\nAt her door, she turned to face him. ",
"She wasn't sure what he would do. ",
"He was single, she knew that. ",
"Of all the men in the platoon, she had guessed he might be the only one who would try to come on to her.",
"\n\nHe touched her shoulder. \"",
"Hey, Kat, have good dreams. ",
"See you in the morning.\" ",
"He turned, and walked away. ",
"Kat smiled faintly, and felt just a little rejected.",
"\n\n\"What the hell, Kat,\" she whispered to herself. \"",
"You're a grown-up girl, you could have reached out and kissed him first.\" ",
"Then she shook her head. ",
"He was right. ",
"They had a mission. ",
"No entanglements, no baggage. ",
"She was just one of the guys. ",
"She had to be, at least until this mission was over, and they were back in the U.S.A. Then, who knows? ",
"She grinned as she unlocked her door and went inside.",
"\n_17_\n\n# _Friday, October 28_\n\n## 1040 hours \nSafe house \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nJoe Douglas dug the sleep out of his eyes with a pair of HE fraggers and stared at the new day.",
"\n\nIran.",
"\n\nHot already.",
"\n\nWheels. ",
"He jumped off the bed and pulled on the loose-fitting Iranian clothing they had provided, stepped into his black Iranian shoes, and hurried down the stairs to the ground floor. ",
"He heard a motor kicking over in the interior of the quadrangle.",
"\n\nA minute later he saw it, a French-built Citroen sedan, at least ten years old. ",
"It had been repainted brown, but the driver's side front door was from another car, and still held the blue paint job. ",
"The motor sounded good.",
"\n\nFranklin pulled his head out from under the hood, and waved.",
"\n\n\"Damn thing looks like it's been taken good care of. ",
"Should run a ton of miles unless somebody opens up on it with an Uzi or an MP-5. ",
"Look what we have in back already.\"",
"\n\nFranklin opened the rear door on the four-door model. ",
"There were heavy plastic bottles, each holding five gallons of water. ",
"There were a dozen boxes filled with food, most of it freeze-dried or dry, two loaves of bread, baskets of fruit, four rough brown blankets, an assortment of picks and shovels, and other prospecting gear to make them look legitimate.",
"\n\nThey spent another hour going over the car and its contents. ",
"Murrah and her helpers brought more items they might need, such as a small butane bottle for cooking and a large piece of brown camouflage-painted canvas they could use to hide the car. ",
"The tank was filled with gasoline, and there were two 10-gallon tanks built into the back that were also filled.",
"\n\n\"When's the best time to leave?\" ",
"Douglas asked Murrah.",
"\n\n\"As soon as it gets dark. ",
"Seven hours from now, maybe more.\" ",
"She frowned. \"",
"We need to have a private talk before then.\"",
"\n\nDouglas smiled. \"",
"Just how private?\"",
"\n\n\"The most private—in your room.\"",
"\n\nShe left then, and the two SEALs looked at the captured weapons. ",
"Both were short, compact, with an extension stock. ",
"With the stock folded, they were less than a foot long.",
"\n\n\"It's an MGP-15, what it says on the side,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nDouglas grunted. \"",
"Yeah, heard about it. ",
"Made in Peru. ",
"Rate of fire only seven hundred rounds a minute, but you can shoot the sucker with one hand with the stock folded. ",
"Kicks out a lot of firepower with one hand.\"",
"\n\n\"Magazines look like they should hold thirty rounds, nine mike, mike,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"No three-round bursts, but can go fully auto or single.\"",
"\n\nFranklin nodded. \"",
"Yeah, I think I'll keep this one until I can rob, plunder, or steal something better.\"",
"\n\nAt high noon, Douglas set up the SATCOM in the courtyard and aimed the round antenna at the satellite.",
"\n\nWhen it was aligned, a light popped on, and he switched the set to receive.",
"\n\nA minute later a voice came loud and clear from the small speaker after the set processed the encrypted message through the code breaker.",
"\n\n\"Douglas. ",
"Uncle Don here. ",
"We've found some interesting tracks in your wilderness. ",
"Widest highway goes forty-five miles almost due north, then splits. ",
"Best road heads east toward Pakistan. ",
"Estimate fifteen miles, then comes south another five, and vanishes into what looks like a fairly tall mountain.",
"\n\n\"Gives you a place to start. ",
"Third Platoon reports ready to go when you are. ",
"Careful on that prospecting run. ",
"Stroh out.\"",
"\n\nMurrah brought out a local map, and they traced the roads. ",
"The one going north wasn't on the map. ",
"She plotted it in with a ballpoint pen, then at the forty-five-mile point, she turned it hard to the right for fifteen, then back south for five miles.",
"\n\n\"How the hell do we get in there?\" ",
"Douglas asked. \"",
"Are there any small trails or little-used roads, maybe old mines up in there?\"",
"\n\nMurrah shrugged. \"",
"I don't know this area. ",
"Let me get Tabib, he can tell you.\"",
"\n\nShe came back a moment later with the teacher, who was Iranian despite his Turkish name. ",
"He had a map of the area that did show some dirt roads and trails.",
"\n\n\"Most of these are little more than trails, and often they run into a mountain and stop. ",
"One or two go through. ",
"I'll mark those. ",
"But those will be the ones that the military guards will be watching.\"",
"\n\nThey bent over the map. ",
"He sketched in where the satellite photos had shown where the end of one wide roadway could be.",
"\n\nTabib nodded. \"",
"Yes, there could be something there.",
"\n\nThat's an exceedingly tall peak for this range. ",
"Some of them are at the ten-thousand-foot level.\"",
"\n\n\"So we should bear to the left as we head north,\" Douglas said. \"",
"If we can get within ten miles of that place on the map, we can hike in and take a look.\"",
"\n\n\"If you leave the car, camouflage it carefully,\" Tabib said. \"",
"They do have several helicopters in this area. ",
"We never know where they stay, but it isn't at our small dirt-strip airport.\"",
"\n\n\"Choppers,\" Franklin said. \"",
"That would make it hard to hide the Citroen in a wadi somewhere, but we'll try.\"",
"\n\n\"Enough,\" Murrah said. \"",
"Time for you both to get some sleep if you're going to be driving most of the night. ",
"There will be a full moon tonight, so that will help. ",
"Get some rest, now, both of you.\"",
"\n\nThe two SEALs laughed, and went up the stairs to their rooms.",
"\n\n\"This going to work?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Damn well better. ",
"George didn't get the job done, so it's up to us. ",
"No location, no drop-in by the platoon.\"",
"\n\nDouglas smacked his fist into his palm. \"",
"Damn, wish we had a small chopper. ",
"We could tie down that location in a few hours, and have the platoon on their way loaded for nukes.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, now you think of it,\" Douglas said. ",
"He turned into his room and closed the door.",
"\n\nHe figured five minutes. ",
"It was no more than three minutes before his door opened gently, and someone slipped in.",
"\n\n\"What took you so long?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"You Americans always make the jokes,\" Murrah said as she lay down on the bed beside him.",
"\n\nThey left the house a little after 1930. ",
"Darkness was gathering quickly, and Tabib rode with them to the far edge of town. ",
"He headed them out a track of a road he said would parallel the main truck road for twenty miles or more. ",
"Then they would need to move carefully, working through a maze of roads, to try to get another dirt road that might or might not lead closer to their suspected target.",
"\n\nAt the edge of town Tabib shook hands with them.",
"\n\n\"We hope you destroy the bombs, my friends. ",
"The world does not need a wild-eyed Iranian General calling the shots in this section of the world with nuclear blackmail.\" ",
"He stepped back from the car, and waved as they moved into the countryside with their lights off, and only the pale moon to help them see the way.",
"\n\nDouglas drove. ",
"Every few miles, Franklin turned on a small flashlight and checked the creaking odometer.",
"\n\n\"That's fifteen miles, we're getting there.\"",
"\n\nDouglas hoped he was right. ",
"Now and then they had seen a series of headlights moving along the road to their left. ",
"It seemed like most of the traffic was heading into the mountains. ",
"Why would that be? ",
"Maybe vital supplies were still needed to finish the fabrication of the weapons.",
"\n\nTwo hours into the drive, the engine sputtered, stopped, came to life again, then died.",
"\n\nFranklin crawled out of the rig and lifted the hood.",
"\n\n\"Try the starter.\"",
"\n\nDouglas ground it over.",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn!\" ",
"Franklin yelped. \"",
"Okay, we've got lots of hot spark on the plugs. ",
"Now we check for fuel. ",
"Did this old rig have a fuel filter on it?\"",
"\n\nDouglas had no idea, and didn't answer. ",
"Franklin hummed a little tune as he checked the engine with the small light held in his mouth.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, here it is. ",
"Let me get it apart.\" ",
"It was a twist-and-pull type cylinder half an inch in diameter and two inches long. ",
"He pulled it off and checked it with the light.",
"\n\n\"Sucker is plugged up solid. ",
"Must be great gasoline they sell in this shit hole.\"",
"\n\nHe poured a cup of water into one of the small cooking pots they had in their gear and began shaking and washing the filter and thumping it on his hand.",
"\n\nAt last he had it clean, then blew on it until it dried out. ",
"He wiped it off with a cloth and put it back in place.",
"\n\n\"Give it a whirl.\"",
"\n\nThe engine ground twice, then the third time until enough fuel had worked through the inlet pipes and through the filter to get to the engine. ",
"It fired, caught, and purred contentedly.",
"\n\nIn the half-light, they had to drive slowly, carefully. ",
"They traded off driving every half hour. ",
"Just before 2300, they came to what looked like the end of the road.",
"\n\nThey had moved deeply into the barren hills that now rose higher and higher around them. ",
"The small valley they had been in came to an end suddenly against a mountain. ",
"To the left they saw a scratched-out road that seemed to climb the side of the hill and vanish.",
"\n\nDouglas did a scouting run on the road, and was back in twenty minutes.",
"\n\n\"Looks like it keeps going to the right. ",
"We need about five or six miles that direction. ",
"Let's give it a try.\"",
"\n\nThey had trouble on the first incline. ",
"Douglas rolled rocks out of the way, and they scraped through. ",
"Then the slant down was so great that Franklin used the brakes all the way. ",
"At the bottom of the grade, the mountains seemed to close in around them. ",
"In the shadows they could see no road or even a trail.",
"\n\n\"Better wait for some daylight,\" Douglas decided. ",
"They took out the camouflaged brown canvas and staked it down over the car, stretching it out ten feet on each side. ",
"From a couple of thousand feet the little car should be invisible.",
"\n\nThey rolled out their blankets on the ground, put their small submachine guns at their sides, and tried to get some sleep.",
"\n\n* * *\n\nIt was daylight when Douglas awoke at 0510. ",
"He lay perfectly still. ",
"Something had disturbed his sleep. ",
"What? ",
"He looked around without moving his head. ",
"At once he saw a man at the side of the car. ",
"He had just pulled out one of the five-gallon cans of water.",
"\n\nIn one swift move, Douglas whipped back the blanket, jumped to his feet, and leveled the sub-gun at the thief.",
"\n\nFranklin came up a second later, his gun trained on the man as well.",
"\n\n\"No, no, don't shoot!\" ",
"the man pleaded in Farsi.",
"\n\nFranklin moved forward quickly, pushed the man away from the car, and told him in Farsi to sit down on the ground.",
"\n\nHe sat and began talking so fast, and with such emotion, that Franklin had a hard time keeping up with him.",
"\n\nDouglas stared at him, then waved to Franklin. ",
"He came back and whispered.",
"\n\n\"Says he's just a prospector like us, but not as well set up. ",
"He's a poor man who owes everyone in town, and he can get no supplies. ",
"He has to steal what he needs.\"",
"\n\n\"Ask him where his car is, and how far this road goes.\"",
"\n\nFranklin sat down across from the man, who had lost some of his fear since he hadn't been shot. ",
"Franklin talked to him gently in Farsi, and gradually learned the rest of his story.",
"\n\nFranklin relayed the story, now speaking in English openly. \"",
"Says his car broke down, engine blew up. ",
"He ran out of oil. ",
"He was going to steal what he could from us and hide it, and come back for it later.\"",
"\n\n\"Ask him how well he knows these hills.\"",
"\n\nFranklin nodded at the answer. \"",
"Says like his own backyard. ",
"He's been prospecting for chromium up here for ten years.\"",
"\n\nFranklin nodded to himself, and asked the man if he knew where the big construction site was where the big trucks went.",
"\n\nHis eyes grew wide, and he nodded. \"",
"Yes, but it is a bad place to go. ",
"The soldiers shoot at anything that moves. ",
"The helicopters fly out and shoot at anyone they see. ",
"Very bad place to go.\"",
"\n\n\"How far from here?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, twenty kilometers, maybe thirty. ",
"Long ways.\"",
"\n\nThey all heard the sound of a plane about the same time. ",
"It was a propeller aircraft, moving slowly. ",
"All three ran under the tent part of the camouflage canvas. ",
"Franklin had forgotten his blanket. ",
"He dashed out and pulled it under the tarp just as the small plane came in sight over one of the mountains. ",
"It was a high-wing spotter-type aircraft.",
"\n\n\"Looks like a Piper Cub,\" Franklin said. \"",
"He's at least four thousand feet over us. ",
"If we don't move, he'll never see a thing out of the ordinary down here. ",
"One nice thing about these hills. ",
"They keep the spotters up high.\"",
"\n\n\"Unless they decide to scoot and shoot down through the valleys,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThey held their places as the plane vanished to the north, and the sound slowly faded.",
"\n\n\"Can you take us where we can see this huge plant that the soldiers guard?\" ",
"Franklin asked the man in Farsi.",
"\n\n\"Why would I do that?\"",
"\n\nFranklin showed him six 10,000-rial notes. ",
"The man leaned forward and had to hold himself back from reaching out.",
"\n\n\"We have money,\" Franklin told him. \"",
"Could you lead us to where we could see the place?\"",
"\n\n\"I might. ",
"You have food, could we eat while I think about it?\"",
"\n\n\"He's hooked,\" Franklin said. \"",
"With some persuasion, and some cash, he'll take us through this maze of roads, trails, and hills to the damn nuke site.\"",
"\n\n\"Good, let's eat. ",
"We feed him, we watch him, we tie him up every night so he doesn't steal our car, and all our gear. ",
"Then maybe he'll do what he says he can.\"",
"\n\nThey ate fruit and bread for breakfast.",
"\n\n\"How far is the plant?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Far, maybe thirty kilometers, maybe twenty. ",
"Roads go up to about, maybe... oh eight kilometers. ",
"Walk from there.\"",
"\n\n\"Six miles from the end of the road,\" Franklin told Douglas.",
"\n\n\"Can we trust him?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Hell yes, as far as I can spit. ",
"We watch him every minute. ",
"We make him take us to his stash, and see what he has. ",
"Then maybe we let him lead us toward the place. ",
"Shouldn't take more than two days. ",
"We could even promise to give him our prospector's rig if he gets us there without any problems.\"",
"\n\nDouglas grinned. \"",
"Now, there is a payoff this guy would love to get. ",
"Talk with him.\"",
"\n\nThe two talked for an hour in the shade of the tent. ",
"They drank water, and ate figs, and at last shook hands.",
"\n\nAn hour later, the man, whose name they learned was Nard, a Persian name meaning the game of chess, led them toward his supplies. ",
"They were only half a mile away, in the start of a tunnel someone had dug six feet into a mountain before giving up.",
"\n\nFrom his gear, and his lack of food, they decided he must be who he said he was. ",
"A bargain was struck. ",
"They would pay him well to take them as close to the big plant as was possible.",
"\n\nThe rest of the daylight hours they slept. ",
"One of the SEALs was always awake to watch Nard. ",
"He made no move to leave. ",
"He had his sights set on the car, and all of the supplies. ",
"Douglas was sure the man would kill both of them to get it.",
"\n\nWhen dusk came, they took down the canvas, stowed it, and moved forward to pick up Nard's gear, then he angled them down another track deeper into the mounts, north and east.",
"\n\nAll three of them rode in the front seat of the car as it edged along slowly in the dim light. ",
"Twice they stopped to move rocks from the trail, and once they almost slid off the track into a ditch.",
"\n\nThe hills loomed over them.",
"\n\nThey drove until midnight, then stopped and let Nard look over the land. ",
"The full moon was still out, and he nodded.",
"\n\n\"More to the east,\" he told Franklin, and they swung down another small gully between the brown, dead hills.",
"\n\n\"He could be leading us into a trap,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nDouglas didn't agree. \"",
"Why would he? ",
"He's got nothing to gain by killing us now. ",
"He can take us where we want to go, and then bargain with us for the rig. ",
"He gets paid either way. ",
"It isn't like he's going to run into a dozen buddies at the next gully who will mow us down with shotguns.\"",
"\n\nThey came to a fork in the road about 0400 and decided to call it a night. ",
"Before they sacked out, they covered the Citroen with the camouflage canvas, stretching it out on both sides.",
"\n\nThen Franklin explained to Nard why they had to tie him up. ",
"He agreed, and let them tie his hands and feet.",
"\n\nDouglas awoke the next morning when the sun blasted into his eyes. ",
"He rolled over, then came up in a rush. ",
"It was 1006. ",
"Franklin snored softly. ",
"He looked where they had left Nard. ",
"The Iranian prospector was gone. ",
"The ropes they tied him with were in a neat stack.",
"\n\nDouglas came to his feet in a rush.",
"\n\n\"Franklin, our friend has escaped.\"",
"\n\nFranklin came awake at once and brought up his submachine gun.",
"\n\nA shrill laugh caught them both by surprise. ",
"Nard stepped from behind the vehicle eating a large piece of bread and some fruit.",
"\n\n\"You see, I did not run away. ",
"You can trust me. ",
"Neither did I slit your throats. ",
"I am poor, but honorable. ",
"We made an agreement; I will honor that pact. ",
"We eat more, then sleep again. ",
"It will be a hot day.\"",
"\n\nThe spot they had stopped was where two small valleys came together. ",
"They had pulled the car into the lee of the tallest hill, and now the morning shadows covered it. ",
"By noon it would be in the direct rays of the sun.",
"\n\nThe sun scorched everything in sight. ",
"The three men stayed under the shade of the canvas, and hoped for a slight breeze up the canyon. ",
"They cooked the last of the fresh meat they had been sent, and made instant coffee over the butane burner. ",
"Douglas had listened on the SATCOM at noon, but there were no messages from Don Stroh.",
"\n\nBefore two that afternoon, Douglas lay down on his blanket, and tried to think cool. ",
"The throbbing sound of a helicopter brought him out of his dreams of a swimming pool.",
"\n\n\"The choppers often fly over,\" Nard said in Farsi. \"",
"They try to find something. ",
"Usually they don't. ",
"It is part of a routine they do to insure their security.\"",
"\n\nThe chopper moved away from them, then circled back. ",
"This time the helicopter was just one ridge over and they could see it from time to time.",
"\n\nA loudspeaker blared. ",
"Franklin translated it as the words came.",
"\n\n\"You on the ground. ",
"We have followed your car tracks. ",
"We know you are there. ",
"If you do not show yourself and reverse your direction, we will send down a squad of soldiers to hunt you down like dogs, and kill you all. ",
"Give up, and return to the Chah Bahar area. ",
"There are no minerals in this area worth prospecting for. ",
"Show yourselves now.\"",
"\n\nDouglas groaned. \"",
"Damn. ",
"We did leave tracks. ",
"Most of this area hasn't had a rig through it since the last cloudburst stormed in off the Gulf of Oman. ",
"Tracks lead straight to us.\"",
"\n\n\"I have heard this talk before,\" Nard said. \"",
"Many times they say so when they see nothing, to try to bring out prospectors. ",
"We have learned to doubt them.\"",
"\n\nFranklin translated and nodded. \"",
"But they sure as hell got tracks from our car. ",
"Sounds like a little chopper. ",
"He won't have a squad of troops on board. ",
"Maybe two or three. ",
"He lands, and sends them along to find us, or goes back for a bigger bird with more men?\"",
"\n\n\"He's got to send in who he has, otherwise we might vanish down here,\" Douglas said. \"",
"What we need to do is set up a grand reception for the two or three shooters.\"",
"\n\nFranklin grinned. \"",
"That's a Roger. ",
"Which side do you want?\"",
"\n\nThey put Nard up a side canyon, then studied the layout. ",
"The chopper could land easier to the left, where the canyon was broader. ",
"Yes, they would come that way.",
"\n\nWith a little additional work they transformed some large rocks along the side of the fifty-foot-wide gully into good shooting spots. ",
"They heard the chopper voice come twice more, then it seemed to pull back a ways. ",
"They heard it again later, and the sound came gushing up the gully.",
"\n\n\"They're down,\" Douglas said. \"",
"Give them twenty minutes to work up the gully. ",
"I've got the left side.\"",
"\n\nDouglas wondered if they could waste the two or three men who came after them, then charge down the little valley, and capture the chopper. ",
"He shook his head. ",
"Not a chance. ",
"The pilot would be jumpy as hell. ",
"The first sign of firing, he probably would lift off, and wait at a safe altitude for his troops to return.",
"\n\nThree of them. ",
"There would be three shooters. ",
"It was a four-man chopper, so three guards with rifles or sub-guns. ",
"Either way, the element of surprise would win the day.",
"\n\nDouglas wiped a line of sweat off his forehead, and waited.",
"\n\nTen minutes later they heard the men coming up the slight incline of the canyon. ",
"Three of them, Douglas decided before he saw them. ",
"The Iranians talked back and forth. ",
"Then forty yards away, the canyon bent a little and the three men came around it. ",
"All three had rifles with small sub-guns slung around their necks. ",
"They walked slowly, the rifles at port arms, up and ready. ",
"One man kept to each side of the canyon, here about fifty feet wide. ",
"The third one moved along the tire tracks the Citroen had left in the Iranian dust and rocks.",
"\n\nDouglas pulled out the metal stock on the Peruvian MGP-15. ",
"He braced it against his shoulder and turned the lever to full auto. ",
"Then he zeroed in on the man on his side of the canyon and tracked him. ",
"If he kept coming on the same line, the soldier would be less than twenty feet from where Douglas crouched behind the rocks.",
"\n\nHe waited. ",
"They were at forty feet.",
"\n\nThen the men moved forward again. ",
"One of them shouted. ",
"Evidently he had seen the car. ",
"The others rushed forward.",
"\n\nDouglas waited a moment longer, then tracked the man, and pulled the trigger. ",
"Ten rounds slammed out of the short barrel. ",
"They sprayed in shotgun fashion, but four of them caught the soldier in the chest, and smashed him backwards into the dirt, dying as he screamed.",
"\n\nAn instant later, Douglas heard the other sub-gun roar, and the far Iranian soldier crumpled. ",
"Douglas angled his weapon at the lone survivor in the middle, and jolted out six rounds. ",
"Franklin fired again as well, and the third soldier screamed in rage as he died before he hit the ground.",
"\n\nBoth SEALs waited, but no more troops arrived. ",
"They ran to the bodies and dragged them up against the side of the gully. ",
"Quickly Douglas pushed rocks down from the side of the slope until they covered the dead soldier. ",
"He had set aside the rifle and the sub-gun and all the magazines he could find.",
"\n\nFranklin had buried the man on his side, and they both dragged the third dead man to the far side, where the slope crumbled more easily. ",
"They kicked at it until they had rolled enough dirt and rocks down to cover the dead soldier.",
"\n\nThey picked up the three rifles, three sub-guns, and the ammunition, and ran back to the car under its tarp.",
"\n\nNard came up grinning. \"",
"You are not prospectors at all,\" he said. \"",
"You are soldiers, commandos, you are killers.\"",
"\n\nFranklin told Douglas what Nard had said.",
"\n\n\"But we have not harmed you,\" Franklin said. \"",
"We wish nothing but the best for you, and we are paying you well. ",
"It may even be that we won't need our vehicle, and all of our supplies, once we know exactly where the big plant is. ",
"Would you like to have all of this material for your own?\"",
"\n\nNard smiled broadly. \"",
"Indeed Allah is all knowing, and all kindness, and wonder. ",
"I am your loyal servant until you no longer need me.\"",
"\n\nJust then they heard the chopper's engines rev up, and the bird took off. ",
"The gully was too narrow for the helicopter to make a close inspection, but it hovered overhead and moved slowly up the passage, then swung away. ",
"Douglas had no way of knowing if the pilot had seen the car under the camouflage or not.",
"\n\n\"We've got to pack up and move,\" Douglas said. \"",
"They won't take kindly to losing three of their hotshot guards. ",
"They'll be sending out all the troops they can carry in their choppers. ",
"We've got to be several miles away by that time.\"",
"\n_18_\n\n# _Sunday, October 30_\n\n## 1523 hours \nHill country north of \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nFranklin gunned the engine as soon as everything was loaded in the Citroen, but Douglas waved him off.",
"\n\n\"We need a drag, something to pull behind the rig to brush out our tire tracks so they can't follow us. ",
"A bunch of brush usually works, but there ain't none here.\"",
"\n\n\"Tie one blanket on the bumper behind each rear tire,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Should do in a pinch.\"",
"\n\nThey tried it.",
"\n\nDouglas walked behind the car for a hundred yards, and couldn't make out the tire tracks. ",
"Nobody could see them from the air.",
"\n\nThey drove.",
"\n\nFranklin rattled the old car along as fast as he dared in the rock-strewn dirt track. ",
"Sometimes he hit fifteen miles an hour. ",
"It should be enough.",
"\n\nTwice Nard had them stop and back up to take a different branch of the dirt trails. ",
"They climbed a slope that Douglas was sure would tip over the rig, but it was built heavy, and low to the ground, and made it up and over, then down the far side. ",
"They came to a spring that had spawned a palm tree and fifty square feet of green grass. ",
"They paused only a moment. ",
"The choppers would search this area carefully.",
"\n\nDouglas checked the drags again. ",
"Yes, they blotted out the tire tracks well. ",
"Now if they could just get enough miles between them and the dead bodies, all would be well. ",
"Maybe.",
"\n\n\"Getting low on gas.\" ",
"Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Those two 10-gallon tanks. ",
"Were they piped into the fuel line?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\nFranklin pulled into the shade of a towering peak and took a look. ",
"He crawled into the backseat, moved a ton of stuff, and come out smiling. \"",
"Both have valves on them. ",
"I switched on one, which should take us for another day at this pace. ",
"Which way there, our dependable scout and guide?\" ",
"He had asked the question in Farsi.",
"\n\nNard was catching on to some of Franklin's jokes. ",
"He pointed to the left again, and they rolled.",
"\n\nEvery ten minutes they stopped to listen. ",
"They could hear no aircraft, fixed-wing or rotary.",
"\n\n\"So far we is staying alive,\" Franklin said. ",
"He repeated it in Farsi and Nard grinned.",
"\n\n\"Twelve miles,\" Douglas said. \"",
"We've come twelve fucking miles today. ",
"Are we getting too far to the east?\"",
"\n\nFranklin repeated the question to Nard in his language. ",
"He looked out the window, then, when they came to a break in the hills to the north, asked Franklin to stop the car. ",
"He got out and stared at the hills for some time, then nodded and went to Franklin.",
"\n\n\"See that second mountain up there, the one with the twin peaks and saddle in the middle. ",
"Saddle Mountain, we call it. ",
"The place you look for is just beyond that mountain two, three kilometers.\"",
"\n\n\"You're sure?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yes. ",
"Almost got killed near Saddle Mountain.",
"\n\nSoldiers came, searched all day. ",
"I lay in a small canyon with sand and gravel covering me except for a breathing straw made from a desert plant with a hollow stem. ",
"One soldier stepped on my leg, but he didn't notice. ",
"Oh, yes, I know that spot. ",
"Almost died there.\"",
"\n\n\"Where do we turn north?\"",
"\n\n\"Another short ways, half a kilometer. ",
"Then only drive another two kilometers or so before road runs out. ",
"No more trail. ",
"Only mountain goat climb from there on.\"",
"\n\nFranklin told Douglas what Nard had said.",
"\n\n\"We might just be getting somewhere.\"",
"\n\nBefore they could get moving again, they heard the chopper.",
"\n\nQuickly they pushed the car into the shadows of the mountain, then spread the camouflage tarp over it. ",
"This time they didn't tie it down, just draped it, and crawled underneath.",
"\n\nAll three men under the canvas had rifles ready. ",
"The long guns were nothing that either SEAL had ever seen before. ",
"But they had 30-round magazines. ",
"Douglas snapped off the safety and turned the selector switch to fully automatic fire. ",
"Then he waited.",
"\n\nFranklin found a small hole in the canvas he could look through.",
"\n\n\"Damn chopper is still a ridge over. ",
"He's looking for anything he can find.\"",
"\n\n\"If he spots us and hovers, we all get clear of the canvas, and fire at him on full auto. ",
"If he's only four or five hundred feet, we should be able to hurt him a lot.\"",
"\n\n\"Shoot the fucker down,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nNard pointed the other way. \"",
"Helicopter,\" he said in Farsi and Franklin grunted.",
"\n\n\"Another chopper south of us. ",
"Wonder how many they put out to try to nail our hides?\"",
"\n\n\"All they've got, my guess,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThey listened then.",
"\n\n\"Nearest bird is moving away,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Hope we're outside their containment area. ",
"They must think we're still inside their web.\"",
"\n\n\"So, we wait, or we move?\" ",
"Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"I'm too tired to spit. ",
"When did we get any sleep? ",
"Let's conk off here until dark. ",
"I think we beat them for right now. ",
"The closer we get, the tougher their security should be.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, but out maybe ten miles?\"",
"\n\n\"That's where I'd put my first line.\" ",
"They listened for a moment, and both grinned. \"",
"No more choppers up here. ",
"Good. ",
"Ask Nard how much farther we can drive.\"",
"\n\nFranklin had the answer a moment later. \"",
"He says maybe three more kilometers. ",
"We turn north again until we run out of the next canyon. ",
"Then it's almost due north to that saddle mountain. ",
"He says we will be able to see the nuke plant from the far side of the saddle.\"",
"\n\n\"We better rig up something to use for packs. ",
"We'll need to carry food, ammo, and our weapons.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, and don't forget water. ",
"We can't order shakes from Jack in the Box.\"",
"\n\n\"Chogie straps,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"What?\"",
"\n\n\"Chogie straps. ",
"The Koreans used them during the Korean war to carry shit with. ",
"My dad told me about them, and I saw pictures. ",
"Take a box or a sack full of stuff, use this long loop strap made out of canvas or cloth and loop it around the box, and two loops to put your arms through. ",
"Works fine, or at least it did for the guys over there.\"",
"\n\nThey began sorting through the gear to find something to make the straps out of. ",
"Franklin snorted and used his knife to cut two eight-foot-long strips two inches wide from the camouflage canvas.",
"\n\nHe tied the ends together.",
"\n\n\"Show me,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\n\"Damned if I know. ",
"Let's figure it out.\"",
"\n\nTen minutes later they figured it, and then concentrated on picking out the gear, food, and water they would need for the hike on to Saddle Mountain.",
"\n\n\"How much we taking?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Enough water for three days—no, four days. ",
"How long will it take our guys to get in here from Coronado?\"",
"\n\n\"Three or four days. ",
"We better leave a batch of supplies at the end of the road so we can come back and get them if we need to.\"",
"\n\nThey continued to sort out food and water. ",
"There would be plenty for a cache, and to get Nard on to his next dig in his continual search for chromium.",
"\n\nFranklin took the first watch, and Douglas went to sleep. ",
"They decided not to trust Nard this late in the game. ",
"He could bug out with everything, and leave them dying of thirst in the high desert.",
"\n\nTwo hours later, Franklin took his turn sleeping. ",
"As soon as the sun went down, and the shadows grew into dusk, they hung out the blanket drags and began driving into the night.",
"\n\nFour hours later, Franklin switched on the car's headlights.",
"\n\n\"Yep, like the man said, this is the end of the line. ",
"No way a car or a camel is going to go up that cliff.\"",
"\n\nHe killed the lights, and they began checking the gear they had laid out.",
"\n\nFranklin explained to the Iranian what they were doing. ",
"He nodded.",
"\n\n\"Good idea to have water and food here. ",
"You might have longer stay, and need to get back out. ",
"Should I wait for you for two days before I leave this spot?\"",
"\n\nFor a moment Franklin was sorry that they hadn't trusted their guide. ",
"He shook his head.",
"\n\n\"We'll have enough supply here to last us even if we had to walk out to Chah Bahar. ",
"You take the rest, and get the rig moved away from here. ",
"Keep the drags on the rear to wipe out your tire tracks. ",
"Remember, the choppers will be looking for this vehicle. ",
"Hope you make a rich strike.\"",
"\n\nThey left six of the five-gallon cans of water, and half of the freeze-dried food, behind under a small shelf of rock, and covered it all with slabs of stone to keep away any predators. ",
"There were various big cats in the mountains, but Douglas wasn't sure if that was down here or farther up north in the forested areas.",
"\n\nThey waved at Nard, and sent him down the canyon and on his way. ",
"He said he would travel well out of the danger zone, so there would be no chance the soldiers would destroy his new transport. ",
"They also gave him half of the rials they had left, something like one hundred thousand. ",
"That figured out to three hundred dollars, but was probably more cash money than Nard had seen in years. ",
"The Citroen was probably worth twice that much. ",
"Nard was now a rich man by Chah Bahar standards.",
"\n\nThey began hiking north. ",
"The chogie straps cut into their shoulders, but they simply bent over more and endured. ",
"You weren't really a SEAL if you weren't in pain somewhere. ",
"They had to detour around the shear cliff in front of them, but found a canyon leading up a quarter of a klick to the left.",
"\n\nDouglas took a bearing on a star, and kept it as his guidepost. ",
"By the time they had climbed up halfway on the hill in front of them, they could spot the dark blotch of the saddle mountain where it blotted out the stars in silhouette.",
"\n\n\"Only five miles forward,\" Douglas said. \"",
"That doesn't count another six to ten straight up, and straight down.\"",
"\n\nThey stopped after an hour for a breather. ",
"They had been up and down four smaller hills, and still the saddle mountain seemed as far away as when they started.",
"\n\n\"A mountain always looks closer than it really is when you're sighting across a bunch of other hills and empty space,\" Franklin said. \"",
"That's what my Boy Scout scoutmaster always used to tell us.\"",
"\n\n\"You believed him?\"",
"\n\n\"I was ten, what did I know? ",
"Yeah, I believed him. ",
"I still do. ",
"We might not get onto that saddle before daylight.\"",
"\n\n\"Bet you a case of beer we do,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"You're on, sucker. ",
"I'd like some of that German beer.\"",
"\n\n\"That'll be the day. ",
"Let's haul ass.\"",
"\n_19_\n\n# _Sunday, October 30_\n\n## 1830 hours \nLieutenant (j.g.) ",
"DeWitt's apartment \nCoronado, California\n\nThe dinner party had progressed well. ",
"Ed DeWitt had asked Kat to come to his house for dinner with him and his lady friend, Milly.",
"\n\n\"Frankly, Kat, she wants to meet you. ",
"She's a little jealous, and wants to be sure you don't have real claws.\"",
"\n\nKat had understood at once, but said she'd come only if they had Murdock along as a kind of buffer person. ",
"It had worked out.",
"\n\nNow they sat around the dinner table scraping up the last of a delicious cherry pie à la mode.",
"\n\n\"Cherry pie has been my favorite since I was a tomboy climbing trees in our backyard in the wilds of Virginia,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nMilly had taken a liking to this nuclear physicist at once. ",
"They had chatted in the kitchen while getting the last of the dinner ready for the table. ",
"Milly had seemed to understand at once that this pleasant woman with short brown hair and impressive credentials was no threat to her love for Ed. ",
"From there on the friendship grew.",
"\n\nThey pushed back from the table and went into the small living room.",
"\n\n\"Don't worry about the dishes,\" Milly said. \"",
"Our maid will clear, and take care of everything.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, by that she means me,\" Ed said. ",
"They all laughed.",
"\n\n\"Let's just talk,\" Milly said. \"",
"We got off to a good start in the kitchen. ",
"I understand you showed up a few of our vaunted SEALs on one of the open-ocean swims.\"",
"\n\n\"The guys aren't used to competitive swimming,\" Kat said. \"",
"If it's just an exercise, I tend to go out a little faster then the rest of the platoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Then she stretches her lead in the middle part, and churns home so fast we can't even see her wake.\"",
"\n\n\"Only part true,\" Kat said, smiling. \"",
"When we're in a combat situation, I'll keep my stroke exactly on sched. ",
"Hey, you've drilled that into my brain.\"",
"\n\n\"You better,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"Or we'll let you swim the twenty miles out to the carrier.\" ",
"They all laughed again.",
"\n\nMilly leaned back and relaxed. ",
"It was so clear to her now. ",
"Kat was indeed \"one of the guys.\" ",
"She had an extremely difficult job to do once they got to the target, but she had to be able to endure a lot of tough physical activity before they got there. ",
"Ed had told her that Kat had to be able to fire her weapon to protect her own life, and the lives of the rest of the platoon. ",
"Now Milly totally understood.",
"\n\n\"Are we ready to drop in on Iran?\" ",
"DeWitt asked. ",
"He looked at Kat.",
"\n\n\"I don't know about you, but I feel ready. ",
"I know the routines. ",
"True, I'm not sure how I'll function when the bad guys start shooting real bullets at me, but, I think I can pass muster. ",
"Am I ready to blend in and be an integral, functioning part of the platoon? ",
"You'll have to ask Murdock that.\"",
"\n\nThey looked at him. ",
"He scowled for a moment, then did the old Jack Benny motion with his arms folded and a curious look on his face. \"",
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking.\" ",
"They broke up.",
"\n\nWhen the laughter simmered down, he nodded. \"",
"Yes, I'd like to have two more weeks for platoon-size drills, but if we get the word to fly out tomorrow, I won't be the least bit hesitant to ship Kat and her submachine gun right along with us.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, thank god, no more sixty-mile hikes,\" Kat said. ",
"They laughed again.",
"\n\nThe phone rang. ",
"Milly picked it up. \"",
"This is the DeWitt residence.\" ",
"She listened for a minute, then smiled. \"",
"Yes. ",
"Yes, just a second.\"",
"\n\nShe held the phone to Murdock. \"",
"Someone wants to talk to you.\"",
"\n\n\"Our orders from Don Stroh?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\nMurdock lifted his brows, and then took the phone. \"",
"Murdock here.\" ",
"He listened for a moment, then smiled. \"",
"Yes, I think I can arrange that. ",
"The Del in ten minutes.\"",
"\n\nHe handed the phone to Milly.",
"\n\n\"Duty calls,\" he said, straight-faced. \"",
"Did I tell you about my friend in Washington, D.C.?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"Ardith, I think her name was,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"Like I say, duty calls. ",
"I'll see you sailors in the morning.\" ",
"He grabbed his hat and headed for the door.",
"\n\nIt took Murdock only seven minutes to get to the Del Coronado Hotel and park in the far lot. ",
"He wore his off-duty favorites—blue jeans and a Western shirt. ",
"As soon as he came into the big Hotel Del lobby, he saw her. ",
"For just a moment he paused, watching her, remembering those fine times in Washington, D.C.\n\nShe stood in a pose that had to come from years of ballet training: straight and tall, feet placed just so; long, golden hair swept down across her shoulders. ",
"She turned and saw him. ",
"The best smile he'd ever seen brightened her already pretty face. ",
"High cheekbones accented her face under the mischievous light blue eyes that could always keep him guessing.",
"\n\nShe turned and hurried toward him, reminding him of a prima ballerina moving across to stage left for her solo number. ",
"Instead of a tutu she wore a frilly white blouse and a brown skirt showing off just enough of her svelte figure to be interesting.",
"\n\n\"Did I surprise you?\" ",
"she asked, as he caught her shoulders for a quick kiss on her ready lips. ",
"He pulled away, and smiled.",
"\n\n\"You surprised me, and I can't think of a better one.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm glad. ",
"I hear you might be going on a long trip. ",
"Wanted to get here before you left.\"",
"\n\nHis face clouded for a moment as what she said registered fully. \"",
"Damnit, why doesn't somebody just put a story on the front page of the _Washington Post_?\" ",
"He relented at once. \"",
"Sorry, not more than half a dozen people know about this. ",
"Who was your source?\"",
"\n\n\"Do I have to tell?\"",
"\n\n\"Absolutely. ",
"I might need to kick some tail. ",
"It wasn't my dad, was it?\"",
"\n\n\"No, nor my father.\"",
"\n\n\"So, who?\"",
"\n\n\"Let me tell you later. ",
"The elevator is right over here.\" \"",
"Elevator?\"",
"\n\n\"Why don't we stay here? ",
"If we go to your place, I'll have to prove what a lousy cook I am. ",
"Here I can fake it.\"",
"\n\nMurdock laughed and caught her arm. \"",
"Lead on, Mac-Duff.\"",
"\n\nShe shook her head. \"",
"That should be, 'Lay on, MacDuff.' \"",
"\n\nMurdock guffawed. \"",
"Hey, I thought that part came later.\" ",
"She punched his shoulder, and they walked into the elevator.",
"\n\nIn her room, Murdock kicked the door closed, and she moved into his arms for a long kiss. ",
"It was a full-body-pressure kind, with them pressed together from hips to lips.",
"\n\nTheir mouths opened, and they explored dark passages. ",
"At last they broke apart.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yes, Blake. ",
"Now, that was worth waiting for.\"",
"\n\n\"I might find some more of those.\" ",
"He held her at arm's length. \"",
"Really, I need to know who told you.\"",
"\n\n\"Nobody told me anything, actually. ",
"I just happened to be talking with Don Stroh the other day—okay, yesterday—and I told him I was going to Los Angeles on business and wondered if this would be a good time to come down and see you.\"",
"\n\n\"Stroh—I might have guessed.\"",
"\n\n\"He only said that now, this week, would be an excellent time. ",
"Any later, and I might miss you. ",
"So he told me nothing secret, not even when or where you'll be going. ",
"If and when you go.\"",
"\n\nShe kissed him seriously. \"",
"So, Mr. Secret Man, that was all I found out. ",
"I made reservations yesterday, and here I am, weary, flight-torn, but able to stand up... for a little while yet.\"",
"\n\n\"Good, I'll take care of that problem, too. ",
"I'm glad that's all he told you. ",
"This one is really top of the shop. ",
"I bet not even dear old Dad finds out about it until we're done and back home.\"",
"\n\n\"When?\"",
"\n\n\"We don't know. ",
"We need some more intel, then make out our flight sched. ",
"It won't be more than a few days, I've got a hunch.\"",
"\n\nShe kissed him again, and they moved to the bed and sat down. ",
"The kiss came apart, and he reached for the buttons on her blouse.",
"\n\n\"Did I tell you about...\" He stopped. \"",
"Son of a bitch! ",
"I almost did what I accused Don of doing.\" ",
"He shook his head, and kissed both her cheeks and her nose, then a butterfly kiss on her mouth, barely touching her lips. ",
"Her eyes closed, and she sighed, and pulled him down with her on the bed.",
"\n\n\"Ardith, you vixen. ",
"You should have been a spy during the Cold War. ",
"You could have charmed the pants off any diplomat on the other side. ",
"You could have seduced the secrets right out of Brezhnev himself.\"",
"\n\nShe unbuttoned the fasteners on his shirt. \"",
"Thank you if that was a compliment. ",
"The only one I want to charm, and seduce, is you.\" ",
"She pulled his shirt out of his pants and reached for his belt. \"",
"How am I doing so far?\"",
"\n\nAn hour later they lay naked side by side on the king-sized bed. ",
"Her fingers toyed with the dark hair on his chest.",
"\n\n\"Here you thought that three times was too many, and too fast. ",
"You sure fooled yourself.\"",
"\n\n\"And happy to do so.\"",
"\n\nShe turned on her side and propped up her head with her elbow. ",
"He enjoyed the way it made her full breasts move, bounce, and then sway.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yes. ",
"A woman's breasts, her most perfect artistic delight.\"",
"\n\n\"Sexist.\"",
"\n\n\"Absolutely. ",
"I wouldn't have it any other way.\" ",
"He shut up then; from her expression he knew she was getting serious.",
"\n\n\"Have you thought any more about... about some other kind of work for the Navy?\"",
"\n\n\"Haven't had time. ",
"We had to integrate three new men into our sixteen-man platoon. ",
"Not an easy or quick task. ",
"If they aren't right, or aren't trained right and blended in, the whole platoon could be in trouble on a live-Fire mission.\"",
"\n\nShe rolled over, and kissed him deeply, then eased back and lay half on top of him.",
"\n\n\"You know how terrible I feel when you're off on a junket somewhere. ",
"Junket. ",
"Ha. ",
"I wish they all could be nice safe missions to countries where we at least have embassies.\"",
"\n\n\"Maybe I'll pick up a million-dollar wound, and not be able to get back in the outfit. ",
"Do you know that we lose fourteen men washed out of the SEALs for medical reasons for every man who gets killed? ",
"So the odds are...\"\n\nShe smothered his mouth with her own, and didn't move until they both had to breathe.",
"\n\n\"Now we talk about things more pleasant. ",
"I'd guess you'll be working tomorrow.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\n\"Could you give me a guided tour of your office, your training area?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, boy. ",
"We usually don't do that... I mean it's not secret or anything. ",
"I'd have to get a pass for you from the NAVSPECWAR headquarters. ",
"I have planned an all-day exercise for the platoon...\"\n\n\"All right, I understand. ",
"Damnit, that's the trouble, I really do understand.\"",
"\n\nHe kissed her.",
"\n\n\"I'll be at your command after five tomorrow afternoon. ",
"We can have a picnic on the beach, take a hot air balloon ride, go play at Sea World, make crazy faces at the animals at the San Diego Zoo. ",
"Or we can cuddle up in my place while I fix dinner, and then we could have a long, relaxing evening before we have a long, sexy night.\"",
"\n\nShe grinned, and tickled him under the chin. ",
"He pulled away from her.",
"\n\n\"You remembered that.\"",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant, I remember everything I know or read or discovered about you. ",
"Especially that little strange noise you make just before you explode when we're making love. ",
"It's delightful, and then I know what's coming, and...\"\n\nShe stopped, and they watched each other.",
"\n\n\"Hey, I'd like to vote we go to my place tomorrow. ",
"When do you head back to Nutsville?\"",
"\n\n\"Day after tomorrow on the eight-fifteen a.m. American.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn.\"",
"\n\n\"True.\"",
"\n\n\"What time is it?\" ",
"he asked.",
"\n\n\"It's oh-one-hundred-fifteen, as you Navy types say.\"",
"\n\n\"How about a late-night sandwich, and some champagne? ",
"I understand the kitchen is open all night here.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, let's give it a try. ",
"I want a crab salad sandwich on toasted dill rye, with a pair of kosher dills.\"",
"\n\n\"Crazy lady, you're on.\"",
"\n\nThe sandwiches were delicious.",
"\n\nThe champagne bubbling.",
"\n\nThe rest of the night a delight.",
"\n_20_\n\n# _Monday, October 31_\n\n## 0330 hours \nHill country north of \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nGuns Franklin and Joe Douglas pushed up another ridge in the middle of an unending series of hills that all worked upward toward the saddle mountain.",
"\n\n\"How many more of the fucking hills are we going to have to climb to get there?\" ",
"Franklin brayed.",
"\n\nThe chogie straps due deeply into their shoulders now as the strain of the sixty pounds of food, water, and ammunition bore down. ",
"Douglas went to his knees in the rocky soil a hundred yards from the top of the ridge, then sat down and lay back against the heavy pack.",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn but that feels good,\" he shouted. \"",
"So fucking good I could shoot my wad right here.\"",
"\n\n\"Strange what turns some guys on,\" Franklin said, doing the same drop, sit, and roll motion to get the weight of the pack off his shoulders.",
"\n\n\"What day is this?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"How the hell should I know? ",
"What am I your fucking walking calendar?\"",
"\n\n\"You should be. ",
"I don't even remember when we dropped into this garden of plenty. ",
"I still say we'll get to the saddle before daylight.\"",
"\n\n\"Hell no. ",
"You'll owe me that case of German beer when we get back to civilization.\"",
"\n\n\"We're on the last ridge. ",
"When we get to the top of this, the next slant up will be the saddle mountain.\"",
"\n\n\"That's what you told me the last two ridges, hotshot.\"",
"\n\n\"You'll see, Guns. ",
"Let's move it.\"",
"\n\nThey rolled over, lifting the packs off the ground and getting to their knees, then pushed upright with a pair of groans.",
"\n\n\"I still say three hundred pounds is too much to expect even a SEAL to carry on his back,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nThey hiked upward.",
"\n\nThe last few yards they had to use their hands on the steep slope to get to the top. ",
"Franklin made it to the ridgeline first. ",
"He stopped, and stared.",
"\n\n\"I'll be fucked on Friday. ",
"There the big bastard is.\"",
"\n\nDouglas got there a moment later and he grinned. ",
"Even in the darkness, they could tell that there were no more ridges between them and Saddle Mountain. ",
"They could see only one peak, but this had to be it. ",
"The other half of the mountain was behind the one they could see.",
"\n\nThey had a fifty-yard slope down the ridge, before the longer slant upward to the saddle mountain began.",
"\n\n\"An hour to the top,\" Douglas said. \"",
"It's now oh-four-twenty. ",
"The sun shouldn't be up until about oh-six-hundred. ",
"Plenty of time for you to owe me that case of good American beer.\"",
"\n\n\"If we make it, it'll be worth it.\" ",
"Franklin shrugged, and began the slower move down the slope.",
"\n\nThey struggled up the last rise to the side of the saddle mountain. ",
"They weren't going all the way to the top. ",
"They quartered around the mountain peak, and within another half hour saw the saddle opening spread out before them. ",
"Through the saddle to the north they saw the glow of what could only be electric lights. ",
"In this starkly dark countryside, they stood out like beacons.",
"\n\n\"Jackpot!\" ",
"Douglas screeched. \"",
"Look at those shit-kicking lights. ",
"We've found the nuke plant sure as little green apples get riper in the summertime.\"",
"\n\nFranklin couldn't suppress a grin. \"",
"Hey, yeah. ",
"Looks like it could be. ",
"We need to get to the far side of the saddle—what, a half mile. ",
"Then we'll have a better look. ",
"Why in hell didn't we bring a twenty-power scope with us?\"",
"\n\nThey hiked again.",
"\n\nThe comparative flat bowel of the saddle was either part of a huge volcanic eruption, or just neutral ground between two volcanic peaks. ",
"Douglas didn't worry about it too much. ",
"The nearness of their objective pushed him forward. ",
"The straps cutting into their shoulders didn't hurt so much either. ",
"As he moved, Douglas wondered if the saddle would be a good drop spot for the rest of the platoon. ",
"Depended how far it was on to the big factory. ",
"It could still be ten miles away.",
"\n\nDawn crept up on them, and before they realized it, the sun peaked over the far hills. ",
"They were in the open here, and with daylight they thought of their own security.",
"\n\n\"What happens if one of them spotter planes flies over?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"We go prone and stay as still as an ant. ",
"Movement is what the spotters watch for. ",
"If we stay quiet, they'd have to be right over us at a thousand feet to pick us out.\"",
"\n\nAnother twenty minutes, and they came to the edge of the saddle bowl and stared across to where they had seen the lights. ",
"They saw only a haze, with a bluish tinge that could have been from ground fog, or smoke.",
"\n\n\"Why would there be smoke up here in the hills?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"We didn't see any power lines coming in anywhere. ",
"They'd need lots of power up here. ",
"Maybe they have a huge oil- or coal-burning electrical generating plant.\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds reasonable.\"",
"\n\nThey stood there a minute staring at the place where the Iranian nuclear plant could be. ",
"Gradually the mists or smoke began to lift.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, clearing up,\" Douglas said. \"",
"Shouldn't take long. ",
"If it's what we think we can have the old SATCOM up and working in five minutes.\"",
"\n\nThey waited.",
"\n\nThe mixture ahead of them turned out to be half smoke, half some kind of ground fog. ",
"The smoke showed prominently when the fog was burned away by the bright sun. ",
"Smoke was to the right of the rest of what they could now see.",
"\n\n\"Damn it to hell on Sunday, look at that,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Big bunch of buildings with camouflage all over them. ",
"No wonder the satellites couldn't find them. ",
"Got to be the fucking nuke plant.\"",
"\n\n\"Yep, I think we've found the nuker. ",
"Let's get to some kind of protection or cover, and we'll get the SATCOM set up.\"",
"\n\nThey found a spot near the edge of the half-mile-long saddle. ",
"It had almost no vegetation—some low grasses and a shrub here and there. ",
"The place they picked was near a boulder that screened them from the nuke plant and gave off some deep shade from the already burning sun. ",
"Douglas set up the SATCOM and aligned it with the satellite high overhead.",
"\n\nHe took the cellular phone-sized instrument out of his pack and pulled open an eight-inch antenna. ",
"It was the MUGR, or the mugger, as the SEALs called it—the Miniature Underwater GPS Receiver. ",
"This was a modified version for land use, with a pull-out antenna instead of a floating one that went to the surface.",
"\n\nDouglas turned it on and the antenna began searching for the four closest Global Positioning Satellites. ",
"The MUGR picked up the satellite's positions, and with quadra-angulation, pinpointed the location of the MUGR to within ten feet.",
"\n\nAfter a few seconds the small device beeped and the screen showed a readout of longitude and latitude.",
"\n\nWith that data in hand, Douglas composed his message on the SATCOM screen.",
"\n\n\"Found it. ",
"About five klicks due north of this position.\" ",
"He then put in the longitude and latitude the mugger gave. \"",
"This position good for LZ. ",
"Outside of their major security area. ",
"No positive ID but nothing else up here but snakes, desert mountains, and scorpions. ",
"Will stay in on-mode for your response.\"",
"\n\nHe read over the message, made a small change, then hit the send button that automatically encrypted the words, and blasted them out of the set toward the communications satellite in a burst that lasted only a fraction of a second. ",
"He left the set turned on and sat down on the sand, moving into a patch of shade near the rock.",
"\n\n\"So now we watch and wait?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Have a nap if you want to. ",
"We wait for a reply.\"",
"\n\nA helicopter lifted up from the side of the saddle and raced to within a hundred yards of their position before it paused, then climbed to more than a thousand feet off the saddle, and hovered.",
"\n\n\"Don't move,\" Douglas said. \"",
"If we move he'll spot us for damn sure.\"",
"\n\n\"Least we have on these damn brown-and-beige Iranian clothes, and we're in the shadows,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nThey watched the Iranian chopper. ",
"Douglas didn't know what make it was, but he did see a machine gun angled out the side door. ",
"He'd heard about door gunners from the Viet Nam vets and knew they could be deadly.",
"\n\nThe chopper made a slow circle over the saddle. ",
"When it was at the farthest end, about a half mile away, the two SEALs draped themselves with spare beige shirts, so they covered their faces, weapons, and the twelve-inch-diameter SATCOM antenna.",
"\n\nThey heard the helicopter swing back toward them. ",
"It was now higher, Douglas could tell by the sound.",
"\n\n\"They must check this area routinely as part of their security,\" he said. \"",
"Might not be such a good LZ after all.\"",
"\n\n\"Best in the whole damn place I've seen. ",
"Shit, we get the platoon in here on a night drop, and we can fade into the gullies on both sides before daylight. ",
"Even if they patrol this area every day, they wouldn't find a trace.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, hope so.\"",
"\n\nThey heard the chopper make one more circle search. ",
"Douglas checked out from the cover, and saw the bird much higher now. ",
"A minute later it flew off to the north working lower, and out of sight.",
"\n\nWhen he took the shirt off his face, Douglas saw the SATCOM light pulsing.",
"\n\n\"Incoming message,\" he said.",
"\n\nHe turned another switch, and a voice came on the small speaker.",
"\n\n\"Douglas. ",
"Received. ",
"Now plotting out your position. ",
"Stay out of sight. ",
"Will get Murdock in gear immediately. ",
"Shooting for a drop there within thirty-eight hours. ",
"Second dark from now. ",
"Hole up. ",
"Stay out of sight. ",
"Good work. ",
"Stroh.\"",
"\n\nThe message repeated three times. ",
"When it stopped, Douglas sent a two-word reply: \"Douglas, Roger.\"",
"\n\n\"So, we hole up. ",
"Exactly where?\" ",
"Franklin scowled.",
"\n\n\"Just off the side somewhere, and on the shade side,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThey found their spot an hour later. ",
"It was a gully that evidently drained water from the flat top of the saddle whenever there was a downpour. ",
"The rocky ground wouldn't soak up much of a cloudburst.",
"\n\nThe water had dug out a respectable gully, leaving some sharp edges. ",
"At one place a small waterfall must have formed and resulted in a fairly flat place below it. ",
"It was on the shady side. ",
"They unloaded their packs and found room enough for both of them to stretch out.",
"\n\nFirst came food. ",
"They couldn't risk a fire. ",
"While there might not be much smoke, the smell would slide downwind like a beacon for anyone on foot in the area. ",
"Instead they ate some of the freeze-dried foods, much like the familiar MRIs. ",
"They had plenty of water.",
"\n\n\"That would make their drop in here not tonight, but tomorrow night,\" Douglas said. \"",
"Means we have two days and a night to get through. ",
"I wonder how much of that I can sleep.\"",
"\n\nFranklin snorted. \"",
"Hell, Douglas, knowing you, I'd say you can sack out for about ninety percent of the time. ",
"Go ahead. ",
"I'll take the first watch. ",
"Not much to see. ",
"We can spot anyone coming up the gully for half a mile. ",
"If they drop troops on the saddle up on top we'll hear them. ",
"So, we've got nothing to worry about. ",
"Sack out. ",
"I'm going to try one more of these freeze-dried pastrami cakes.\"",
"\n_21_\n\n# _Monday, October 31_\n\n## 0332 hours \nLieutenant (j.g.) ",
"DeWitt's apartment \nCoronado, California\n\nLieutenant DeWitt awoke slowly.",
"\n\nSomething was clanging, like a police car in England.",
"\n\nNo, more like an ambulance in France.",
"\n\nOh, damn, the phone. ",
"He sat up, fully awake now. ",
"He grabbed the instrument and glared at it.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, what the hell do you want?\"",
"\n\n\"Well, good morning to you, too, Lieutenant DeWitt. ",
"I know it's about three-thirty in the morning out there in Lotus Land, but some of us have been working all night back here in D.C.\"\n\n\"Stroh? ",
"Don Stroh?\"",
"\n\n\"Damn, you still remember me. ",
"I can't get hold of your boss. ",
"He unplug his phone or something?\"",
"\n\n\"Why would he do that?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\n\"I don't know, why?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah. ",
"The good Lieutenant was, shall we say, busy tonight with his friend from D.C.\"\n\n\"So if he unplugged the phone, I'd still get a ring on that end?\"",
"\n\n\"Right, the phone rings, but the ring you hear comes from the switching station here in town.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks for the intel. ",
"Hey, we're in business. ",
"Just got word about six hours ago that we have the exact location of the picnic grounds we were looking for. ",
"We did some tail twisting, and got the final okay to move out. ",
"You have travel orders for as soon as possible. ",
"No later than sixteen hundred today. ",
"Your headquarters there has a fax on it now, and will get a phone call later. ",
"You better roust your crew out for an early call, and get cracking. ",
"You'll take all the goodies you expect to use.\"",
"\n\n\"Including ammo?\"",
"\n\n\"That's right. ",
"Everything for land and sea. ",
"You'll be able to get some extra ammo when you land with the Air Force. ",
"This is not a secure line. ",
"You have a telephone tree of some sort?\"",
"\n\n\"That we do. ",
"I call four, they call the rest.\"",
"\n\n\"Do it, now. ",
"Have your boss call me when you dig him out. ",
"I'll see you across the pond.\"",
"\n\nThey said good-bye and hung up. ",
"DeWitt looked over at Milly, who was sitting up listening.",
"\n\n\"You're going?\"",
"\n\n\"This afternoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Once more, Ed. ",
"Just once more, then call the guys.\" \"",
"I'll call first, then once more,\" he said and began dialing. ",
"Milly pulled off her nightgown and waited.",
"\n\nThe phone rang, and Murdock shook his head trying to stop the ringing. ",
"Then he figured it out, and grabbed the phone.",
"\n\n\"Good morning, this is your four a.m. wake-up call from the front desk of the Hotel Coronado. ",
"You have a nice day.\"",
"\n\nMurdock hung up the phone, and scowled. \"",
"I didn't leave a four a.m. wake-up call.\"",
"\n\nHe heard a giggle beside him, and looked over at Ardith.",
"\n\n\"I know, I'm wicked and evil and oversexed, but I just wanted to be sure to love you one more time before you went to work.\"",
"\n\n\"You are wicked... and wonderful. ",
"I don't have to leave here until oh-seven-forty-five. ",
"That leaves me five minutes to get to the office and five more to get into my cammies.\"",
"\n\n\"Shut up,\" she said, \"and slide over here.\"",
"\n\nLieutenant Blake Murdock rolled into his office at oh-seven-fifty-five in his blue jeans and a blue Western shirt. ",
"He lifted his brows at the rush of activity from men in the platoon. ",
"Inside he saw Lieutenant DeWitt at his desk working over a form.",
"\n\n\"What happened?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Your phone must have been unplugged,\" Ed said. \"",
"Stroh called me at oh-three-thirty with our marching orders. ",
"Douglas and Franklin found the damn nuke place. ",
"We fly out of North Island at sixteen-hundred.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah. ",
"All the guys here?\"",
"\n\n\"All except Magic Brown, who must have had his phone off the hook. ",
"If he isn't here in thirty, Jaybird will run him down.\"",
"\n\nDeWitt got up from the chair. \"",
"We're to take everything we'll need for the whole operation, land and sea. ",
"All our ammo, weapons, rebreathers, uniforms—the works. ",
"I'd figure no wet suits. ",
"Too heavy to pack out to the coast from our drop.\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"Is Kat here?\"",
"\n\n\"She's checking her gear.\"",
"\n\n\"Ask her to come in here.\"",
"\n\nKat walked in a minute later, looking trim in her cut-down cammies, but her face had flushed, and a line of perspiration beaded on her forehead.",
"\n\n\"We're taking that much ammo?\"",
"\n\n\"You'll be glad you have it. ",
"Kat, sit down. ",
"One thing we haven't covered.\" ",
"He explained to her that each of the SEALs had to have a last will and testament. ",
"Platoon policy.",
"\n\n\"A will? ",
"God, I haven't thought about that in years. ",
"I have one, wrote it myself so I know it's good. ",
"It's on file with a lawyer back in D.C. You need a copy?\"",
"\n\n\"No, just your word that you have one, and where it can be found, and your next of kin. ",
"File those with Jaybird. ",
"Now, how's everything else coming?\"",
"\n\nThey talked for a few minutes, then she hurried back to her gear. ",
"She was surprised when some of the guys showed her all the things she had to take with her.",
"\n\nMurdock had his carry-on bag and special backpack ready in two hours. ",
"The backpacks would be used for ground movement, to let the men have full use of both hands. ",
"That was in addition to the nylon-mesh American Body Armor special operations vest. ",
"They had two- to six-magazine pouches across the front, depending on the type weapon the person carried. ",
"Their Motorola personal radio fit in back in a watertight bag. ",
"Grenade pouches showed on the web belt.",
"\n\nMurdock moved around the big squad room. ",
"There was a tension in the air that hadn't been there yesterday. ",
"A sense of purpose, of expectation.",
"\n\nThe banter and the jokes flew hot and heavy, some of them landing on Murdock. ",
"He grinned, and shot back at them, and they all laughed.",
"\n\nBy noon most of the men were ready. ",
"Magic Brown had come in about 1100 and dug into the task of getting his gear together. ",
"He asked Murdock if they could requisition a hundred rounds of .50-caliber HE armor piercing to be picked up at their land base in Saudi Arabia or whatever their Air Force plan would land. ",
"Murdock make a quick call to Don Stroh and asked for that plus several thousand rounds of other ammo they might need. ",
"It would be on hand.",
"\n\nMurdock sat at his desk. ",
"He had the paperwork signed and off to Seal Team Seven headquarters. ",
"He had checked with North Island and they would have an Air Force plane on the runway ready to take off on schedule. ",
"He didn't ask about the route. ",
"He didn't want to know. ",
"They might be en route for twenty-four hours; he wasn't sure.",
"\n\nWhat was he forgetting?",
"\n\nArdith!",
"\n\nShe was expecting him at sixteen hundred for an early supper. ",
"He closed his office door and called the Hotel Del. She came on the phone on the first ring.",
"\n\n\"Bad news, Ardith. ",
"We're moving out today at four o'clock. ",
"I won't be able to see you before we go.\"",
"\n\n\"Goddamnit!\"",
"\n\nHe let the silence stretch out. \"",
"I was afraid this might happen, but I hoped it wouldn't, not while you were here. ",
"I'll stop in Washington when we get back.\"",
"\n\nHe could hear her crying. ",
"She tried to stop it.",
"\n\n\"Darling Blake, I'm sorry I'm such a ninny. ",
"I so hoped that we could have two or three days. ",
"Oh, God!\"",
"\n\nShe cried again.",
"\n\n\"Hey, let's talk. ",
"I even shut my door, and nobody wanting to keep his head on will come in. ",
"Let's talk about last night.\"",
"\n\nThey did.",
"\n\nIt was almost an hour later when he hung up the phone and opened his door. ",
"Nobody said a word.",
"\n\nDeWitt came in to report that his squad was all packed and ready to go.",
"\n\n\"I inspected each man. ",
"We're ready. ",
"Chow at the regular time?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, or go an hour early if you want to. ",
"I'll check my squad.\"",
"\n\nWhen he got to it, he found that Jaybird had done it for him. ",
"Everyone including Kat was packed up and checked out. ",
"They would wear their cammies on the trip, and on the mission. ",
"They each had a spare pair. ",
"They had rebreathers and flippers, and six sonoboys that would send out locator signals for the submarine.",
"\n\nFirst they had to get to the LZ, and then take down the nuke factory.",
"\n\nHe checked with Kat. ",
"She sat on a bench by her locker staring straight ahead.",
"\n\n\"Hey, Kat, sorry you volunteered for this trip?\"",
"\n\n\"Volunteered? ",
"Who the fuck volunteered?\" ",
"She said it sharply, then grinned. \"",
"How did you know I volunteered?\"",
"\n\n\"Nobody does SEAL work with SEALS without agreeing to it. ",
"Besides, I checked with your boss in Washington. ",
"He gave you two thumbs-up.\"",
"\n\n\"He better. ",
"He owes me.\" ",
"They both laughed.",
"\n\n\"Ready?\"",
"\n\n\"As ready as I'll ever be. ",
"I feel comfortable here with these guys. ",
"It's like I've found a whole new family, with sixteen brothers.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Our job is to get you to that nuke plant alive, and ready to blow up the damn place. ",
"We've got more explosives with us than you want to know about. ",
"Lots of that new TNAZ that you and Ed shot off. ",
"Hot stuff.\"",
"\n\n\"I've got my handy dandy nuke destruct tool kit,\" Kat said. \"",
"Everything I need, from pliers to a miniature cutting torch, and a radiation safe suit folded up you wouldn't believe how small.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"You ready to travel?\"",
"\n\nShe grinned. \"",
"Almost. ",
"I may need to go to the bathroom again.\"",
"\n\nThey both laughed. \"",
"That happens to all of us. ",
"The nerves are a marvelous diuretic. ",
"I was thinking more like a phone call. ",
"You get a long distance call on the Navy if you want one.\"",
"\n\n\"There's just my mom. ",
"She's in Connecticut and doesn't know I'm here or anything about this. ",
"I do a lot of traveling. ",
"No, I don't think a call.\"",
"\n\nThree of the platoon used Murdock's office to make calls. ",
"Then it was time to saddle up and move out. ",
"Every man carried his own gear and ammo. ",
"Three had drag bags, including those for the big .50-caliber sniper rifles.",
"\n\nThey boarded two trucks outside the quarterdeck and headed for the North Island Naval Air Station, about three miles away.",
"\n_22_\n\n# _Tuesday, November 1_\n\n## 2010 hours \nHill country north of \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nJoe Douglas looked at Franklin where he lay in the shelter on the side of the gully.",
"\n\n\"Hey, you awake?\"",
"\n\n\"Sure, asshole. ",
"I always snore when I'm awake.\"",
"\n\n\"It's past twenty hundred, maybe we should go topside, and wait for the guys.\"",
"\n\n\"When did the radio say they were coming in?\"",
"\n\n\"Last SATCOM message said between twenty and twenty-two hundred tonight.\"",
"\n\n\"How can they see this saddle in the dark?\" ",
"Franklin asked.",
"\n\n\"Same way we did, where it blocks out the stars.\"",
"\n\nThey worked their way up the slope to the top of the saddle, and walked into it a hundred yards. ",
"Then they stopped and waited.",
"\n\n\"I still don't like the signal light idea. ",
"How will we know it's them?\"",
"\n\n\"Who else would be flying a big plane over this area, exactly at this time? ",
"We'll know. ",
"They make one pass, we flash the light three times. ",
"They key in on it and make their low-level jump, and all is right with the world.\"",
"\n\n\"If it works. ",
"What's the odds of losing at least one man on a night low-level jump?\"",
"\n\n\"Ten percent, but both of us made it.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, but what about Kat?\"",
"\n\n\"She's made more than two dozen jumps now.\"",
"\n\n\"None at night at low level.\"",
"\n\n\"Quiet, what's that?\"",
"\n\nDouglas held up one hand, and they both listened. ",
"The sound came from the south. ",
"The small purr grew into a sizable one, and then a growl.",
"\n\n\"Sounds like one of them turbo props, maybe the same C-130 that brought us in,\" Franklin said.",
"\n\nThey listened and watched, then it was obvious that the plane was heading straight for them. ",
"The pilot would have the exact position. ",
"Douglas picked up the strobe light and flicked it on and off three times, aiming it south. ",
"The powerful, surging flashes jolted south toward the plane. ",
"There was no recognition signal from the plane.",
"\n\nThen the sound was almost on top of them. ",
"Douglas stabbed the light three times again just before the big bird thundered over them at less than a thousand feet. ",
"He was sure the big plane was below the tops of the mountains on both sides of the saddle.",
"\n\nThe plane made a turn away from the nuke plant to the north, and came back, and this time it seemed to be throttled down. ",
"Again, Douglas hit the strobe. ",
"It was aimed away from the nuke plant so they couldn't possibly see it.",
"\n\n\"There,\" Franklin said. \"",
"Hear the change in the sound? ",
"Like the big rear hatch came open.\" ",
"A moment later he nodded in the darkness. ",
"The engine speed had picked up, and sounded different. \"",
"The engine picked up when those fifteen fully loaded SEALs ran out the ass end of that C-130. ",
"Our buddies are coming down.\"",
"\n\nDouglas kept hitting the strobe now as they stood there watching the sky, trying to find the black chutes blotting out the stars. ",
"For a moment Douglas thought he saw one, then he wasn't sure.",
"\n\nHe hit the strobe light every five seconds now.",
"\n\nSomewhere ahead they heard a yell.",
"\n\nCloser by something hit the dirt and skidded.",
"\n\n\"Ho, SEALs,\" Douglas called.",
"\n\n\"Ho yourself,\" somebody said from close by. \"",
"Hit that light and aim it along the ground,\" a voice said.",
"\n\n\"L-T, that you?\" ",
"Douglas asked.",
"\n\n\"Me and my buddies. ",
"On me, you landlocked SEALs.\" ",
"His last was a bellow. ",
"It brought a series of calls from around the area.",
"\n\nMurdock came up to them dragging his black chute. ",
"He unhooked the straps and stepped free, then put down his pack and the bag he carried.",
"\n\n\"Morning, Franklin, Douglas. ",
"Good to find you guys. ",
"Black as the inside of an inkwell out here. ",
"Hooooooo. ",
"This way. ",
"Men, assemble on me.\"",
"\n\nThey straggled in then in ones and twos. ",
"One came in who was shorter than the rest.",
"\n\n\"Kat, that you?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"What's left of me. ",
"This low-level jumping shit has got to stop.\" ",
"Half a dozen of them laughed.",
"\n\n\"Glad you made it, Kat. ",
"Any tears, rips, broken bones?\"",
"\n\n\"I'm all in one chunk, but a little bruised up. ",
"What else is new?\"",
"\n\n\"Is Jaybird here yet?\" ",
"Murdock asked. \"",
"He was the last man out. ",
"Somebody get me a body count. ",
"Stand still, everyone.\" ",
"Four more SEALs came in. ",
"Magic Brown came up a minute later.",
"\n\n\"I've got a count of thirteen chutes, L-T. We still need two more.\"",
"\n\n\"Keep the light going, Douglas. ",
"Fernandez and Franklin, take a hike and see if you can find anybody. ",
"We might have lost one over the side. ",
"Douglas, where can we see the damn nuke plant?\"",
"\n\nDouglas took them to the north two hundred yards and showed them the glow of the lights.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, that's more lights than we saw since we left Saudi Arabia. ",
"Got to be it. ",
"Five miles from here?\"",
"\n\n\"What we estimated in the daytime.\"",
"\n\n\"The plan is to get situated here and make a move toward the plant tomorrow night. ",
"We'll send out a recon patrol tonight to figure out the best way to get there. ",
"We'll need some cover closer than this. ",
"How tight is the security?\"",
"\n\nDouglas told Murdock and the rest of them about the daily chopper overflights of the flat area of the saddle, and about the chopper attack, and the three soldiers who chased their car.",
"\n\n\"The car went back south so they probably are still hunting it,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThey went back where they had dumped their chutes and packs. ",
"Magic Johnson was there with the missing Al Adams and Doc Ellsworth.",
"\n\n\"Adams has a badly sprained right ankle where he hit some rocks on landing,\" Doc said. \"",
"I put a bandage on it but he won't walk too well for twenty-four.\"",
"\n\n\"Got it,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Any other hurts, sprains, rips, or tears?\"",
"\n\nKenneth Ching had a slash on his left arm that Doc treated and tied up.",
"\n\nMurdock called them all around him in the dark.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, we're on-site. ",
"Now we get down to business. ",
"Lampedusa and I will take a recon and be back before daylight. ",
"We've got to be invisible tomorrow. ",
"Douglas and Franklin will get you situated in the gullies around the sides of this place. ",
"Use your camo cloths and lots of sand when the chopper comes over. ",
"Remember, don't move when you can see the chopper. ",
"That means he can see you. ",
"No firing. ",
"Let him look and scoot.",
"\n\n\"I want every man to take care of his own chute and harness. ",
"Bury them down the sides in the gullies where moved dirt won't be a clue. ",
"Lampedusa, we'll leave our gear and chutes here for Franklin and Douglas to take care of. ",
"All of you find a hide hole and get situated. ",
"You can get some sleep in before dawn. ",
"Lam, let's get the hell out of here.\"",
"\n\nThey used their NVG, night vision goggles, and that helped out at once, showing a gentle slope down from the saddle to a small valley below and then a ridge beyond it. ",
"They climbed the second ridge without finding much in the way of an easy route to the nuke plant. ",
"It would be muscle versus the mountain.",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch every half hour.",
"\n\nThey took a break at the top of the third ridgeline. ",
"From there they could see the lights of the factory.",
"\n\n\"Not sure if they have a night shift or if those are security lights,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"They must have barracks or houses, supply and stores, a whole damn city up here. ",
"Wonder how many workers they have inside that place.\"",
"\n\n\"Too many, I'd guess,\" Murdock said. \"",
"I hope they are beyond the point where they need a night shift. ",
"We'll have to chase all the civilians out of there before we blow the place.\"",
"\n\nAn hour later they lay just outside of a high wire fence around the nuclear bomb operation. ",
"The wire could be electrified; they'd find out about that later. ",
"Here earth-moving machines had widened a good-sized valley by shaving off the sides of hills until the space was big enough for the complex.",
"\n\nMurdock figured it was about a half mile long, with a series of large and smaller buildings. ",
"They'd have to find out which one held the final assembly.",
"\n\n\"Up there, L-T. See where that cut is on the hill? ",
"The fence is not quite as high as the cut. ",
"We could jump over there easily if the damn fence is juiced.\"",
"\n\n\"Noted,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Which building is the one we want?\"",
"\n\n\"We watch them for a while,\" Lam said. \"",
"My guess would be the smaller one in the middle with the extra lights around it.\"",
"\n\nAs they watched, a jeeplike vehicle came around the corner of the structure, paused, and two men in the rig went up and checked on the doors. ",
"They got back in, and drove around the far corner of the place.",
"\n\n\"So, probably no workers inside that one at night,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Does it get special protection, I'm wondering.\"",
"\n\nThey ducked low into the smattering of weeds and boulders as a vehicle swung out from the nearest building and drove to the fence, then along it, as it made a circuit around the part of the fence they could see.",
"\n\nWhen it was gone, Murdock lifted up and checked his watch. \"",
"Better time this one. ",
"I figure the jeep is on a schedule, and makes the rounds of the fence every so often. ",
"Be good to know. ",
"We'll have to be through our hole, and have the fence rewired, and be out of sight forward before the driver comes back here.\"",
"\n\n\"L-T, we gonna move up during the afternoon and get here just after dark?\"",
"\n\n\"Sounds good. ",
"That will give us ten hours of darkness to get the job done and haul ass out of here. ",
"They'll hound us all the way to the coast. ",
"Probably bring in a blocking force once they see where we're headed. ",
"That could be rough. ",
"First we have to get those bombs taken care of.\"",
"\n\nA half hour later the jeep did its run around the fence again.",
"\n\n\"A half hour should be time enough,\" Lam said.",
"\n\nMurdock stared at the complex. ",
"Where would be the best place to breach the fence? ",
"There should be the least security at the far end, but then they'd have a longer run to whichever building they needed.",
"\n\nThey heard a chopper. ",
"It lifted upward from the far side of the largest lighted building, and swept over the complex end-to-end, then it did a circuit of the fence with its brilliant spotlight tracing a twelve-foot-wide circle on the ground, as it moved along little faster than a walk.",
"\n\n\"That could be real trouble,\" Lam said.",
"\n\n\"We'll have to take it out early on. ",
"I hope they have only one. ",
"Wish there was some way we could know how many troops they have inside that wire.\"",
"\n\n\"Looks like we'll need a diversion hit,\" Lam said. \"",
"We send three guys up to the far end, maybe one of the fifties, and an MG. ",
"We put some forty mike-mikes in there and blast a building with the fifty, and MG, and get them all shook up.\"",
"\n\n\"At the same time we breach the fence and go through silent as a ghost,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Yeah, it might work. ",
"We've got our work cut out for us on this one.\"",
"\n\nLam rolled over and stared at his commander. \"",
"Skipper, I've got an idea. ",
"Why don't I go in now, move around enough to find which building is the final assembly? ",
"I can work around there until almost daylight if I have to, and then get out, and wait for you guys to come tomorrow night. ",
"That's later on today, I guess.\"",
"\n\nMurdock shook his head. \"",
"Too dangerous. ",
"They could nail you, and know we were coming, and be ready.\"",
"\n\n\"No chance they could grab me, L-T. I can hide in a damned tomato can. ",
"Been doing it all my life. ",
"How in hell we gonna shoot our way in, and then try to find the right building? ",
"Not a chance. ",
"If I go in, and find the right spot, and get out and tell you, we're well ahead of the game. ",
"If I get in, and don't find it, and get out, we're no worse off. ",
"I can find it. ",
"No shit, L-T. Think it over.\"",
"\n\n\"Nothing to think over, Lam. ",
"Your idea is good. ",
"Should I risk you or not?\"",
"\n\n\"Not much of a fucking risk, L-T. The big risk is not knowing where to go once we get inside. ",
"As soon as they know we're here, they'll put all their guns inside that final assembly building we want, and hold us off until they fly in reinforcements. ",
"No other way. ",
"I got to get through the fence and see what I can find out.\"",
"\n\n\"Jump over down there?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah.\"",
"\n\n\"How will you get out?\"",
"\n\n\"Dig under at one of the gullies the cloudbursts make. ",
"There's one over there, a foot deep under the fence already. ",
"Quicker to jump over now, and then dig out when I find the assembly area. ",
"Is it a go, L-T?\"",
"\n\nMurdock scowled into the darkness. ",
"The kid was right. ",
"They needed more intel. ",
"He'd had no idea the place would be so big, so many buildings. ",
"Slowly he nodded. ",
"There was no other reasonable way.",
"\n\n\"Okay, Lam. ",
"You take my MP-5 and four mags. ",
"The silenced rounds might help.\"",
"\n\n\"Hey, I won't waste anybody unless I have to. ",
"The first body that shows up in the morning, they'll have security scouring all the hills around here. ",
"No bodies, I decided that. ",
"I might have to knock out one or two.\"",
"\n\n\"Okay, Lam. ",
"One other thing. ",
"While you get over the fence, I'll move up with my K-bar and dig out that gully under the fence so you can slip right under it when you need to. ",
"I'll be in the light so it will have to be a low motion kind of operation.\"",
"\n\n\"Done,\" Lam said. ",
"He handed Murdock his issue Colt M-4A1, took the MP-5, and extra mags. ",
"He dabbed more cammie makeup on his face, hands, nose, and ears. ",
"He tugged down his floppy hat. \"",
"I'll see you right here if I find the right building quickly. ",
"If not I'll have to move back a couple of ridges after I get under the fence. ",
"No sweat. ",
"I'll either find the right building or give it one hell of a try. ",
"What I won't do is tip their hand. ",
"See you around, Skipper.\"",
"\n\nLam moved away in the darkness, toward the cut in the hill three-hundred yards away. ",
"Murdock watched him go, sent along his best wishes, and then began working toward the small wash under the fence so he could dig it deeper.",
"\n\nLam lay near the splash of light along the fence, and evaluated it. ",
"He could spot no lookout towers or sentries in the area. ",
"If somebody watched the area with binoculars, it would be on a casual and intermittent basis. ",
"He had a good chance of going over the eight-foot fence, and not being seen.",
"\n\nHe was about to move when he heard the chopper coming. ",
"He blended in behind a two-foot rock, well out of the airborne spotlight, and waited for it to pass.",
"\n\nWhen it vanished down the way, he came up and moved to the edge of the fence. ",
"The slope of the hill put it higher than the fence here, and he held the MP-5 in one hand to his chest, and jumped. ",
"He hit on the hard ground, and did a shoulder roll to take up the force. ",
"The MP-5 stayed on his chest. ",
"He rolled once, and then lay perfectly still.",
"\n\nNothing happened.",
"\n\nGood. ",
"He crawled out of the lights on the fence slowly, so anyone watching would not notice him by movement alone. ",
"After what seemed like two hours, but was only about two minutes, Lam was in the shadows between the lighted fence and the buildings. ",
"He was about in the center of the complex. ",
"He came to his knees, then his feet, and ran bent over toward the nearest building.",
"\n\nJust then the jeeplike rig's headlights cut a path through the darkness, as it drove around a building two down from the one he aimed at.",
"\n\nHe paused and watched the small truck move away, and darkness return. ",
"There were two nightlights outside the small warehouse-type structure. ",
"He had no idea what kind of uniforms the Iranian soldiers wore. ",
"Be nice to get a set to put on over his cammies. ",
"An idea.",
"\n\nHe walked casually through a bloom of light to the building and then along it to a door. ",
"He tried the handle. ",
"It wasn't locked. ",
"Trusting souls. ",
"He pulled it open. ",
"No alarm. ",
"A moment later, he was inside with the door closed.",
"\n\nLam took a penlight from his shirt pocket. ",
"He used it to check the building. ",
"It looked to be a machine shop of some kind. ",
"Definitely not a final assembly plant. ",
"Check one off the list. ",
"He headed for the same door he'd come in.",
"\n\nJust before he reached it, the knob turned, and the door opened outward. ",
"Someone spoke in normal tones. ",
"Then another voice answered, before a man came through the door, and closed it. ",
"In the dim light, Lam saw that the man was an Iranian soldier.",
"\n\nLam was six feet from him. ",
"He lunged forward. ",
"Just as the soldier turned to see what was coming, Lam slammed the heavy butt of the MP-5 into his head. ",
"He went down with a grunt, and fell unconscious to the floor.",
"\n\nYeah, he was big enough, Lam decided.",
"\n\nFive minutes later, Lam left the building dressed in the soldier's uniform and cap. ",
"The unconscious form had been tied hand and foot, gagged, and stuffed into a closet in the machine shop. ",
"Nobody would find him until morning at least.",
"\n\nLam moved easier now. ",
"If he met anyone, he'd growl at them, and go on by. ",
"He checked six more unlocked buildings. ",
"None was the final assembly. ",
"Then he came to a one-story structure set apart somewhat from the rest. ",
"It had brighter lights around it. ",
"Lam walked up to it in the open and began checking doors, as if he were a security man. ",
"The first three were locked, the next opened, and he stepped inside.",
"\n\nAll the lights were on. ",
"The interior was laid out in six individual areas. ",
"In each one was an elaborate worktable, a hoist, a battery of tool cabinets, and what could be shelves for parts. ",
"On each worktable was what looked to Lam like a partially assembled nuclear weapon. ",
"They were larger than he had figured. ",
"But these would be crude and unsophisticated compared to the U.S. atomic weapons. ",
"He'd found it. ",
"This had to be the final assembly building.",
"\n\nThree men worked at each assembly area. ",
"He turned and, as casually as he could, walked outside, shielding the MP-5 from view. ",
"He had no idea what weapons the Army men here would carry. ",
"The one he met had been without any firearm.",
"\n\nJust before he went out the door, he heard the chopper coming overhead. ",
"He paused at the door, felt as much as saw the brilliant beam of some kind of stream-light spot from the chopper wash over the building, and then it was gone.",
"\n\nHe stepped outside, and headed back the way he had come, angling toward the fence. ",
"One of the military-type jeeps came around the corner, and caught him in its headlights. ",
"He slowed to let the rig pass him, but instead it rolled up beside him, and stopped. ",
"One man in the jeep said something to him. ",
"He growled, and waved the man on past. ",
"The question came again, and Lam screeched some words he was sure weren't Farsi. ",
"The man behind the wheel shrugged and drove on.",
"\n\nLam let out a breath, and walked directly away from the building into the shadows. ",
"He paused beside a pile of wooden boxes. ",
"No one seemed to have noticed him, or to question his presence. ",
"He waited a minute, then walked into the darkness between the buildings and the lighted fence. ",
"He angled to the left where he had left Lieutenant Murdock.",
"\n\nWhen he got closer, he saw slight movement at the lighted fence area. ",
"He stopped and concentrated on it. ",
"Yes, that was the small gully under the fence. ",
"Now it was considerably deeper. ",
"He watched again, and saw a hand dig a knife into the dirt and slowly drag it backward. ",
"The L-T was still there working on the opening.",
"\n\nLam ran then through the semidarkness between the buildings and the lighted fence. ",
"He came close to the spot, and called out softly.",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant Murdock. ",
"Lam, coming out.\"",
"\n\nHe heard a grunt, and the hand and knife moved backward.",
"\n\nJust then the chopper began its run along the fence. ",
"Lam saw the figure on the other side of the fence roll several times away from the wire. ",
"Lam dropped to the ground rolled into a ball, and lay perfectly still. ",
"He was outside the direct beam of the powerful light, but it splashed to the sides a dozen feet.",
"\n\nLam held his breath, expecting at any instant to be shot by a door gunner working a machine gun. ",
"The chopper moved slowly but didn't pause at the escape spot. ",
"Then it was past.",
"\n\nLam wanted to run, but he walked to the lighted area, dropped to the ground, and crawled as slowly as he could stand it toward the fence, and the enlarged escape hole. ",
"It looked big enough.",
"\n\nIt took him three minutes to cover fifteen feet. ",
"Headfirst, he decided. ",
"He turned on his back and worked his head under the wire in the little gully. ",
"Good so far.",
"\n\nHe pushed with his heels. ",
"The MP-5 caught on the bottom of the wire. ",
"He pulled it to his side, and pressed forward again with his legs. ",
"The wire snagged his ammo pouch, then came off. ",
"A moment later he was under the wire, and crawling slowly away from the light.",
"\n\nTwenty feet later, he was in the darkness.",
"\n\n\"You do fast work,\" Murdock said just behind him.",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn, sir, you scared the shit out of me. ",
"How do you like my new uniform?\"",
"\n\n\"Iranian military, I'd say. ",
"Keep it, we may need it later on tonight. ",
"You found the place?\"",
"\n\n\"Roger that, sir. ",
"It's the one-story building down from that intensively lighted one. ",
"Eighteen guys in there. ",
"Three of them working on each of six different bombs. ",
"I have no idea how close they are to finishing anything.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat will know. ",
"Let's get the hell out of Dodge City.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked back the way they had come. ",
"For a minute Lam felt the tension draining out of him. ",
"He'd been higher than a comet while he was inside. ",
"What a fucking rush! ",
"He shook his head. ",
"Now it was back to work as usual. ",
"They had five miles to hike, then to get hidden for the daylight hours. ",
"He wondered when the Iranians would find the naked soldier in the closet. ",
"By then they would be wondering, but there should be no special alert. ",
"Somebody might just have been playing a joke on the soldier. ",
"At least that's what Lam hoped.",
"\n\nAs they walked, he filled in his L-T on what happened.",
"\n\n\"Good work, Lam. ",
"We may keep you in the squad.\"",
"\n\nLam grinned, and kept hiking. ",
"In two hours they should be back on the saddle, and find a hide hole. ",
"Yeah, and then some sleep. ",
"He suddenly was more tired than he could remember.",
"\n_23_\n\n# Wednesday, November 2\n\n## 1734 hours \nNear nuclear bomb plant \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nThe helicopter with the Iranian flag on the sides made three sweeps across the barren saddle between the two mountains, hesitated as if for a third look, then drifted to the north and swept down a valley, and out of sight of the seventeen SEALs.",
"\n\nThe sixteen men and one woman had plenty of time to hide from the chopper. ",
"This was the second time it had been over the area that day. ",
"Some SEALs had found crevices to lie in, and simply covered their body and packs with the camouflage cloth made of desert cammies material. ",
"It blended in perfectly with the surrounding brown and sandy colors.",
"\n\nSome SEALs had dug out trenches in the shade of the mountain, in a gully on the downslope, leading from the top of the saddle. ",
"They dug in and covered up with the camou-flage cloth when needed.",
"\n\nBoth times the chopper came over, Magic Brown asked for permission to shoot it down with his .50-caliber sniping rifle.",
"\n\n\"Come on, L-T. I've got him in my sights. ",
"Just one trigger squeeze and he's history.\"",
"\n\n\"So are we, Magic, when they realize there are more than rattlesnakes and scorpions out here in the hills. ",
"We don't want to give ourselves away.\"",
"\n\n\"Hell, I know that, Skipper. ",
"Just had to ask.\"",
"\n\nMurdock and Lampedusa had straggled into the position about 0200 and found half the SEALs up and eating.",
"\n\n\"It's a two-hour hike into the target,\" Murdock told those awake. \"",
"We'll plan on leaving here about 1700 tomorrow and should get there at first dark.\"",
"\n\nThat had been the plan. ",
"Now Murdock watched the chopper vanish over the hill. ",
"He had cautioned the men to keep under cover for another ten minutes after the bird left. ",
"He could pop up over the edge of the mesa without warning and surprise them.",
"\n\nThis time he didn't.",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch. \"",
"No chance we're going to leave here now before it gets dark,\" he told the troops. \"",
"Pass the word. ",
"We'll keep secure here until that time. ",
"Fucking chopper could check back this way anytime and catch us on the trail.\"",
"\n\nHe looked over at Kat. ",
"She had functioned perfectly so far. ",
"She had her hole dug and camo ready before half the men did. ",
"Of course she had a smaller hole to prepare. ",
"She was about ten feet down the gully from him.",
"\n\n\"Kat, you might as well have something to eat. ",
"Might be some time before we can take a break for food again. ",
"Try the chicken a la king.\"",
"\n\nKat laughed. \"",
"Hey, we had that out at Niland, remember? ",
"I think I'll go for the beef stroganoff.\"",
"\n\nMurdock tore open an MRE and picked out the crackers and peanut butter. ",
"He made a cold drink from the powder. ",
"He looked over at Douglas, who was nearby. ",
"Douglas had a stack of water bottles and food behind him.",
"\n\n\"Douglas. ",
"How in hell did you get all that stuff in here?\"",
"\n\n\"Chogie straps, remember them?\"",
"\n\n\"Never heard of the term.\"",
"\n\n\"Korea. ",
"Some of the old Army guys told me about them.\" ",
"He explained how they worked. \"",
"We didn't know how long we'd be here or how much water we'd need.\"",
"\n\n\"We might use some of it before we leave. ",
"Have all the guys fill up their canteens. ",
"Then we're hoping for water at the nuke factory.\"",
"\n\nThey had talked half the morning about the strategy for hitting the big plant. ",
"What it came down to was what Lam had suggested the night before.",
"\n\n\"So it's set,\" Murdock had said. \"",
"Three of you will work to the west end of the complex. ",
"Up at least a quarter of a mile from our attack point.\"",
"\n\n\"Got it,\" Magic said. \"",
"We go on your signal on the Motorola. ",
"We keep as many of them occupied up there as long as we can, then we drift south, and give you guys support fire when you're inside the fence.\"",
"\n\nKat had talked for more than an hour with Lampedusa. ",
"He had described to her as much as he could remember about the worktables, and how far assembled the devices were.",
"\n\n\"None had an outside shell on it?\" ",
"Kat had asked.",
"\n\n\"No, none of them. ",
"I didn't even see anything that looked like a bomb casing.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"They may not be halfway along. ",
"The problem will be finding the plutonium and disposing of it. ",
"Wish we had a nice deep oil well we could pour it down.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll figure it out,\" Lam said.",
"\n\n\"If we don't, it stays there in a safe container. ",
"I'm not going to scatter it over the hills and kill a few thousand people.\"",
"\n\n\"That's a Roger, Kat. ",
"I understand.\"",
"\n\nAt 1930, Murdock had them packed up and ready to go. ",
"They all had filled their double canteens. ",
"Some of them carried an extra two-quart plastic jug of water that Douglas and Franklin had packed in. ",
"Two quarts of water weigh another four pounds.",
"\n\n\"Let's use our NVGs,\" Murdock said. \"",
"It helps in this uneven terrain. ",
"We'll use regular squad order. ",
"Let's move it.\"",
"\n\nKat had broken down her tool kit at Murdock's insistence. ",
"He had half of it, Kat had a quarter, and Ron Holt, who hiked right behind her, had the other quarter. ",
"Kat still had almost forty pounds of gear and ammo.",
"\n\nThe first hour went easily. ",
"They were more than halfway to the objective, when Murdock called a halt. ",
"He went from man to man, checking on assignments, making sure the battle plan was clear to everyone.",
"\n\nAn hour later, when they topped the last ridge, and could look directly at the facility, there were soft whistles.",
"\n\n\"Big sucker,\" Magic said.",
"\n\n\"Glad we don't have to level the whole thing,\" Gonzalez said.",
"\n\nThey quieted then as Murdock led them down the last slope, and up the next small rise to where the ground had been leveled out for the complex. ",
"They lay on a slope about four hundred yards from the fence.",
"\n\nMagic Brown with his big .50-caliber sniper weapon and forty rounds of armor piercing and HE rounds; Harry \"Horse\" Ronson with his H&K machine gun; and Rodolfo Gonzalez with his Colt M-4AI with grenade launcher, and twenty rounds of the 40mm, moved to the west to set up their diversion.",
"\n\nEveryone had his radio turned on. ",
"Murdock called for a quick radio check. ",
"Each man reported with his last name, except Kat, who used her first.",
"\n\n\"Magic, give me a ready one, when you pick your spot. ",
"Keep about twenty yards apart when you start shooting. ",
"Hope you get a shot at the chopper. ",
"That might be a good time to start this party. ",
"Let me know when you get a chopper shot. ",
"The bird should come around every half hour.\"",
"\n\nThey left lugging their extra ammo.",
"\n\nTen minutes later, Murdock heard a ready one in his earpiece. ",
"Magic was ready. ",
"Murdock had his teams spread out, and ready. ",
"Fred Washington, the platoon's second black, would lead the way with his wire cutters, and do a man-sized peel-back on the wire. ",
"They knew it wasn't electrified.",
"\n\nOnce the fourteen men were through, Washington would temporarily wire the fence closed.",
"\n\nThey moved up so they were twenty yards from the fence, and its lights. ",
"Murdock had Miguel Fernandez with his H&K PSG1 silenced sniper rifle ready to take out the lights on both sides of the cutting spot. ",
"They would do that after Magic had a shot at the chopper.",
"\n\nThey all waited.",
"\n\nTen minutes later, Murdock heard the chopper. ",
"He couldn't see it. ",
"But Magic could.",
"\n\n\"Have target,\" Magic said in the mike.",
"\n\nA minute later the chopper rose higher, and Magic fired. ",
"He worked the bolt, and fired again. ",
"He got off three rounds in less than a minute. ",
"Now Murdock saw the chopper. ",
"It had lifted a hundred feet over the complex. ",
"He saw it shudder, then tilt to the right. ",
"Another round hit the engine and the whole chopper exploded in one big ball of fire.",
"\n\nAt the same time they heard the machine gun rattling away.",
"\n\nA moment later the _karumph_ of the 40mm grenades came as Gonzalez lobbed them into the production facility. ",
"Alarms sounded. ",
"A loud siren went off.",
"\n\nMurdock touched Fernandez's shoulder, and he settled in aiming at the first light, a standard twenty yards from the entrance point. ",
"His silenced round knocked it out. ",
"He turned the other way, and with two shots blew out that one.",
"\n\n\"Go Washington,\" Murdock said into his lip mike. ",
"The black SEAL darted forward and worked on the wire. ",
"He cut through the chain-link fence, and soon had it high enough so the first man could squeeze through. ",
"More followed as Washington cut more links. ",
"By the time he had it four feet high, all the SEALs were inside. ",
"He bent the chunk of fence down where it had been, and tied it in place with wire twists.",
"\n\nMurdock spread out his men, and moved toward the central building they needed to capture. ",
"He could see armed men running to the west. ",
"Good. ",
"They waited a moment, then moved forward again until they were just outside the wash of the one-story building's lights.",
"\n\n\"Hold,\" Murdock said in the mike. ",
"Each of the SEALs had a personal Motorola communications radio for short distances. ",
"Each SEAL had an earpiece and a lip mike. ",
"The small transceiver unit fastened to their webbing and gave them instant communications with all seventeen men on the team.",
"\n\n\"Keep up the pressure, west guys,\" Murdock said. ",
"He now heard return fire at the muzzle flashes from outside the fence.",
"\n\nMurdock watched the building ahead of them. ",
"Lampe-dusa said it was the right one. ",
"Two soldiers came out the door and at once ran to the west. ",
"Murdock grinned.",
"\n\nThe SEALs knew their jobs. ",
"Murdock touched his mike.",
"\n\n\"We three, let's move.\" ",
"Only three of them would go inside and reduce any opposition, then herd all the civilians together. ",
"Murdock, Jaybird, and Les Quinley, with his new H&K Gil sub-gun that fired caseless bullets, charged across the twenty yards to the building and swung open the unlocked door. ",
"The three stormed in. ",
"Murdock took the right-hand section. ",
"He saw two soldiers, and riddled them with half a dozen silent rounds.",
"\n\nJaybird had the center section of the big building but found no opposition. ",
"When Quinley jolted in the door and checked the left-hand side, he saw three soldiers bringing up their guns. ",
"He held the trigger back on the Gil and splattered the three Iranians with twenty rounds. ",
"They went down without firing a shot.",
"\n\nAlready Murdock had run into the room, and herded six of the civilians ahead of him away from the assembly tables. ",
"Jaybird did the same and then Quinley pushed six more toward the far corner. ",
"They made the civilians lie on the floor.",
"\n\nMurdock hit his mike again. \"",
"Franklin, inside.\"",
"\n\nFranklin rushed in the door a moment later. \"",
"Keep these civvies down on their bellies and quiet. ",
"Tell them.\"",
"\n\nFranklin ran up to the eighteen men and ordered them to lie down and be quiet. ",
"He said none of them would be hurt.",
"\n\n\"Bring in Kat,\" Murdock said. ",
"The door burst open again, and two SEALs ran inside, then Kat came, and then two more SEALs. ",
"They had her tool kits. ",
"She hurried to the first assembly table, and nodded.",
"\n\n\"Two small charges on this one,\" she said. ",
"Joe Douglas pasted the TNAZ block where she told him. ",
"He didn't put in timer/detonators. ",
"She ran to the next table. ",
"This one was more complete. ",
"She took her tool kit and began some disassembly.",
"\n\n\"This one is going to take more time,\" she said into her radio.",
"\n\n\"We have a defensive perimeter in front outside,\" Ed - DeWitt said on his mike. \"",
"Nobody knows we're down here yet. ",
"Lots of action up north. ",
"Our men still firing, but it's tapering off.\"",
"\n\n\"Longer we're a secret here, the better,\" Murdock said. ",
"He went back to the outside door and checked. ",
"He took two of the inside men and put them in front. ",
"There were still five SEALs inside. ",
"He saw the other outside door and tried it. ",
"Locked. ",
"He turned a lever and it came open.",
"\n\nCautiously he looked outside. ",
"Six Iranian soldiers stared at the opening door. ",
"Murdock brought up his MP-5 submachine gun on 3-round setting, and cut down three of the men with two bursts. ",
"One ran. ",
"The other two fumbled for their shouldered weapons. ",
"He killed them in a second double burst, then sent six rounds after the runner. ",
"He stumbled, but kept on going. ",
"Murdock called to the five men inside and put them outside along the building as a back door guard. ",
"They would have company soon.",
"\n\nMurdock ran to where Kat worked on the third bomb.",
"\n\n\"This one is more complete. ",
"I need to do some delicate surgery before it gets blown up. ",
"You seen anything that looks like it could hold plutonium?\"",
"\n\n\"Some big lead box?\"",
"\n\n\"About the size of it.\"",
"\n\n\"Get a rush on here, Kat. ",
"We've just been made out the back door. ",
"We'll be having company before long.\"",
"\n\n\"If we can find the plutonium, we'll need transportation to move it. ",
"Can we steal a truck or at least a jeep somewhere?\"",
"\n\n\"I'll put my best car thief on it.\" ",
"He touched his mike.",
"\n\n\"Douglas, we need a truck or a jeep. ",
"Take a man with you and try to bring one back. ",
"If it's impossible, tell me. ",
"Don't get yourself overmatched and killed out there.\"",
"\n\n\"Will do, L-T. I've got Ching with me. ",
"We're gone.\"",
"\n\n\"Magic, how is it going?\"",
"\n\n\"Down to five rounds. ",
"Machine gun ammo almost gone. ",
"Out of the forties. ",
"Should we pull back?\"",
"\n\n\"You're taking fire, anybody trying to charge you?\"",
"\n\n\"So far they're just firing from the sides of buildings, and cars. ",
"They like lots of protection. ",
"We've got a few rocks.\"",
"\n\n\"Move toward the place where the lights went out along the fence when you need to. ",
"Longer you can keep them up there, the better it is for us.\"",
"\n\n\"That's a Roger, L-T.\"\n\nMurdock ran back to Kat. ",
"She was sweating. ",
"She finished the fourth bomb partial, and looked at the fifth.",
"\n\n\"This one is almost ready for the plutonium to be put in. ",
"Glad we got here today. ",
"Give me ten minutes.\"",
"\n\n\"We might not have ten. ",
"Look at number six.\"",
"\n\nShe checked it. \"",
"Good plan, this one is a snap.\" ",
"She showed Al Adams where to put the TNAZ charges on this one, and ran back to number six.",
"\n\n\"Found that plutonium yet?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\nMurdock ran to Franklin, and told him to ask the men in Farsi where the plutonium was being kept. ",
"He did, but nobody said a word.",
"\n\nHe asked the question again. ",
"Still silence. ",
"He jerked one of the civilians to his feet and put a Colt carbine's muzzle against the man's head. ",
"Again he asked them. ",
"One man wavered. ",
"Franklin moved the carbine, and fired one round through the thigh of the man he held up. ",
"The shot civilian screamed, and Franklin dropped him to the floor. ",
"He jerked up the man who had seemed about to talk.",
"\n\n\"Where?\" ",
"he asked again. ",
"The man shook so hard he couldn't talk. ",
"He pointed. ",
"Franklin pushed him in that direction. ",
"He went to the far end of the building, and showed them a panel on the floor. ",
"He caught a ring and pulled. ",
"The six-foot-wide panel lifted up on a counterbalance and a steel box, two feet square, rose on some kind of an elevator.",
"\n\nKat ran up and looked at it.",
"\n\n\"Heavy as hell,\" she said. \"",
"Steel box that's lead-lined to hold the plutonium. ",
"At least they're protecting it right. ",
"Now we need a truck. ",
"Look around for a forklift of some kind.\"",
"\n\nShe ran back to the fifth bomb, which she had to work more on.",
"\n\nMurdock heard the firing from the rear. ",
"A voice came over the radio.",
"\n\n\"L-T, we got a whole shitpot full of Iranians back here just pissed off to hell. ",
"Could use some help.\"",
"\n\nMurdock ran toward the back door, shoving in a new magazine. ",
"He went through the door low, and felt bullets whine over his head. ",
"He was belly-down behind an old car of some make. ",
"Past it he saw flashes from at least a dozen weapons.",
"\n\n\"Hold fire,\" he directed in the mike. \"",
"Make the bastards come closer, and get in the light so we don't fire blind. ",
"Conserve your ammo. ",
"We don't fire blind. ",
"Conserve your ammo. ",
"We don't have all that much.\"",
"\n\nThe firing continued from the back for a moment, then slackened. ",
"Were they going to move forward slowly, or come firing at a run?",
"\n\n\"Hey, cowboys, we've got some action out front,\" Ed DeWitt said. \"",
"The jerk in the jeep patrol is driving right up to us. ",
"We'll take him out, and try to grab the jeep for Kat. ",
"You said you needed transport, right?\"",
"\n\nMurdock whispered into his mike. \"",
"Yeah, nail the jeep. ",
"We also could use three more men back here. ",
"The bastards are about to make a charge at us. ",
"Get them over here fast. ",
"Through the building. ",
"Do it now.\"",
"\n_24_\n\n# Wednesday, November 2\n\n## 2021 hours \nNuclear bomb facility \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nThree more SEALs charged outside through the rear door, and went prone behind a car and a trailer. ",
"Murdock spread them out a little more. ",
"Then he saw shadows move into the light. ",
"His first 3-round burst from his submachine gun led the way as the SEALs all opened fire.",
"\n\nTen of the attackers went down in the first barrage; three more turned and ran into the night. ",
"Murdock grunted.",
"\n\n\"Shouldn't be this easy,\" he said into the mike. \"",
"Keep up the watch. ",
"If anybody comes into the light, gun him.\"",
"\n\nHe crawled back to the door, and slipped into the assembly room. ",
"Kat had just finished the last partial bomb. ",
"All had TNAZ charges on them waiting for the timer/ detonators.",
"\n\nMurdock touched his mike. \"",
"Ed, what's happening?\"",
"\n\n\"Two silenced shots just wiped out the driver. ",
"We have that jeep. ",
"Where do you want it?\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked for a truck door. ",
"There had to be one. ",
"He found it on the back side, just off from where the plutonium box sat. ",
"He told Al Adams to open it.",
"\n\nDouglas and Chin had come back to the building when they heard there was a captive jeep. ",
"Now the two looked around the big room. ",
"On the far side, under a tarp, they found an electric forklift. ",
"Douglas crawled on it and hit the switch, and the forklift moved. ",
"He checked the panel of instruments again, grinned, and turned the right switch. ",
"The rig began to move forward. ",
"He steered it around the partial nuclear bombs to the big steel box. ",
"It sat on a pallet board.",
"\n\n\"Load it,\" Murdock said. ",
"Joe Douglas worked the steel blades of the forklift into the slots of the pallet board, and hit the up switch. ",
"The forklift contacted the top of the pallet and strained slowly with the weight. ",
"Then it inched upward.",
"\n\n\"Damn thing must weigh two tons,\" Douglas said. ",
"He watched it come up, and when it was high enough, he moved the forklift forward.",
"\n\n\"We've got company out front,\" DeWitt said on the radio. ",
"Murdock sent three of the SEALs out to help.",
"\n\nThe firing began.",
"\n\nDouglas concentrated on getting the steel box over the middle of the back of the jeeplike rig. ",
"Then he lowered it gently. ",
"The pallet board crushed part of the backseat, then the passenger's seat, as it settled onto the jeep's body. ",
"Murdock went to the rig and shook it side to side. ",
"The little utility vehicle didn't turn over.",
"\n\nHe waved at Douglas. \"",
"See if the engine will move the thing. ",
"If it will, take it just outside and shut the big door.\"",
"\n\nDouglas started the jeep, and backed it slowly toward the door. ",
"It moved a little faster. \"",
"Should work okay,\" he said.",
"\n\nMurdock nodded, and went to Al Adams. \"",
"Put the timer detonators in the charges but don't set any time on them yet. ",
"That's the last thing.\"",
"\n\nHe ran to the front door, opened it, and crawled out. ",
"DeWitt had his men behind any cover he could find. ",
"They had shot out the lights that had bathed the area, and now the whole place was black, except for an occasional muzzle blast from the dark.",
"\n\nMurdock found Ed.",
"\n\n\"Must be a batch of them out there, but they aren't firing much. ",
"What the hell's going on?\"",
"\n\n\"Not sure. ",
"Hit every muzzle blast you see.\"",
"\n\nThe firing picked up then. ",
"A machine gun cut in and drilled a line of nine rounds into the wall of the building over their heads.",
"\n\n\"Get on that MG,\" DeWitt spoke into his mike.",
"\n\nTwo MP-5's chattered out six rounds each, and the MG went silent.",
"\n\n\"Too damn quiet out there,\" Murdock said. \"",
"They don't want to use any heavy stuff against this building. ",
"Their nuclear bombs are inside. ",
"They don't want to shoot anything in here that might hurt the bombs. ",
"Somebody is holding them back. ",
"The minute we leave here, they'll be all over us.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll have to leave soon. ",
"You have the plutonium loaded on that little jeep?\"",
"\n\n\"Ready to go.\"",
"\n\nThe small arms fire picked up then. ",
"It was longer range, and the rounds came from down the street. ",
"The rounds went parallel with the assembly building. ",
"That way they wouldn't hurt anything inside, Murdock decided. ",
"He had the men move to better protection. ",
"They returned fire, and again the enemy's shooting slowed down, then stopped.",
"\n\n\"What the hell are they doing?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\nMurdock shook his head.",
"\n\nThey heard it coming, and couldn't identify it. ",
"Sounded like a truck, then a tracked rig.",
"\n\n\"Half-track armored personnel carrier,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Where's Magic and his fifty?\"",
"\n\n\"He's outside the fence,\" somebody said. \"",
"We can use forty-millimeters on this rig.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, how many grenade launchers we have out here?\" ",
"Ed asked.",
"\n\nFour men chimed in with affirmative answers. \"",
"When he gets in range, use HE and WP alternately. ",
"All four of you fire four rounds each. ",
"Get ready, he's coming closer.\"",
"\n\nThe rig had no headlights, to make it harder for them to find it. ",
"The first WP helped, spraying the white phosphorous in the street, lighting up the area, and outlining the halftrack coming. ",
"The second HE found part of the half-track and it veered to the left, then got back on course. ",
"A .50-caliber machine gun chattered from the weapons carrier, and the rounds slammed into parked rigs and the side of the building.",
"\n\n\"Fernandez, you out here?\" ",
"DeWitt called on the radio.",
"\n\n\"Yes, I'm waiting for a good shot.\"",
"\n\nTwo more 40mm rounds exploded almost at the same time. ",
"One hit on the cab, the other the rear of the rig, and it spun around and stalled. ",
"It was close enough then that the rest of the men could use their guns on it. ",
"Three Iranians fled the injured rig.",
"\n\n\"L-T, we've got some trouble back here, side door,\" Murdock's earpiece told him.",
"\n\nMurdock crawled through the street door and ran across the building to the side door. ",
"He'd left four men there. \"",
"Trouble?\" ",
"he asked as he ran.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, troops coming up. ",
"Can't tell how many. ",
"Sounds like a whole damn company.\"",
"\n\n\"Got any WP?\"",
"\n\n\"I have two,\" Lampedusa said.",
"\n\n\"Put one out in front where you think they are,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nA moment later Lampedusa fired the round at fifty yards. ",
"It burst in a star pattern of brilliant white fire. ",
"For just a second, it outlined a line of troops marching toward them. ",
"The fire panicked the men and they broke and ran to the rear.",
"\n\n\"The other one, Lam, at a hundred.\"",
"\n\nHe fired it, and the troops kept running.",
"\n\n\"Murdock, we've got some new company, sounds like a fucking tank,\" DeWitt said on the Motorola.",
"\n\nMurdock ran to the front again and bellied out to where DeWitt knelt behind a two-foot-high concrete block wall.",
"\n\n\"He stopped. ",
"Don't know why.\" ",
"DeWitt said it. ",
"A moment later they heard a rumble again and the unmistakable clanking of a tank rolling toward them.",
"\n\n\"Great,\" Murdock said. \"",
"At least a tank doesn't have any headlights. ",
"The forty mike-mike won't touch a tank. ",
"We'd never get close enough out here to throw some TNAZ at him. ",
"What the hell, it might be time to cut and run. ",
"We're almost done inside. ",
"Keep me up to date.\" ",
"Murdock ran back inside, and found Kat. ",
"She sat looking at the partly made bombs.",
"\n\n\"They didn't do half bad a job,\" she said. \"",
"Another three weeks, and they would be almost ready.\"",
"\n\n\"Sorry to upset their timetable. ",
"Can that steel box stand to be tipped over and rolled around?\"",
"\n\nShe frowned. \"",
"In the States I'd say it could. ",
"Here, I don't know. ",
"Better to treat it like a seven-layer wedding cake— with extreme care.\"",
"\n\n\"Get to the jeep and wait,\" he said to Kat. ",
"He motioned to Al Adams. \"",
"Set the timers now for fifteen minutes, and activate them as you go. ",
"Do them damn fast, then get out the back door.\"",
"\n\nHe ran to the side door. ",
"Nobody was firing. ",
"He pulled the four men in and took them to the rear door. \"",
"Cover this jeep. ",
"Don't let anybody near it. ",
"Kat is in it with the plutonium. ",
"It's got to take a ride.\"",
"\n\nBack inside, he called to Franklin, who still watched the Iranians. \"",
"Find out if there's any roads down this back side of the facility into the hills.\"",
"\n\nFranklin asked the men. ",
"Most shook their heads. ",
"One small man with no teeth lifted his hand. ",
"He chattered a minute, then Franklin grinned.",
"\n\n\"L-T, he says there's a gate down about two hundred meters. ",
"A service road runs down there and off into the hills a mile or so.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Bring him with us, then chase the rest of the civilians out the side door over there and tell them to run for their lives. ",
"This building is going to blow up.\"",
"\n\nThe civilians went out the door and sprinted away into the darkness. ",
"The one with the wounded leg hobbled as quickly as he could behind them.",
"\n\nMore firing came from the front. ",
"Adams finished setting the timer/detonators.",
"\n\n\"We've got thirteen minutes, Skipper,\" he said.",
"\n\nThe three men ran for the front door. ",
"At the moment it was quiet out front. ",
"They didn't even hear the tank.",
"\n\n\"Ed, what's happening?\" ",
"Murdock asked his Motorola.",
"\n\n\"The tank turned off. ",
"I keep hearing more troops arriving, but they aren't firing. ",
"Can't figure it out.\"",
"\n\n\"Timers set inside. ",
"We have eleven minutes. ",
"Let's move to the back of the building. ",
"We've got the plutonium. ",
"Move.\"",
"\n\nThe shadows lifted up, and filtered to the right. ",
"Murdock, Adams, and Franklin ran that way. ",
"They made it to the back just as a barrage of gunfire opened up on the front of the building where they had been.",
"\n\nThe jeep purred quietly. \"",
"Move it,\" Murdock said. ",
"They drove away to the rear as quietly as possible. ",
"Ten SEALs led the way at a slow trot. ",
"The civilian pointed where to drive. ",
"They came to a half dozen Iranian soldiers in the darkness, but they ran away without firing a shot.",
"\n\nThey had to make a slight move to the left to go around some buildings, and when they did, they came into the glare of searchlights and the tank with its cannon aimed directly at them.",
"\n\n\"To the right side,\" Murdock bellowed. ",
"Douglas hit the throttle and raced the little jeep behind a building just as a round from the cannon slammed past them and exploded fifty yards away. ",
"The tank lumbered forward. ",
"Murdock could see a dozen men behind it.",
"\n\nMurdock called Joe Douglas up with his MG. \"",
"Lay down some fire around the corner to bleed those troops off the back of the tank,\" Murdock said. ",
"Douglas pumped out 5-round bursts within twenty seconds.",
"\n\nMurdock dug out a quarter-pound block of TNAZ and pushed in a timer/detonator. \"",
"I want two more men up here with TNAZ charges with timers in them, now.\"",
"\n\nDoc Ellsworth and Ron Holt ran up with their bombs ready.",
"\n\n\"When that tank gets in range, we set the timers for ten seconds and throw them for the tank treads. ",
"Be sure the set is ten seconds. ",
"We don't want any preemies. ",
"Get ready, he's almost here.\"",
"\n\nThey were taking some return fire from the men in back of the tank, who had moved to the far side now. ",
"The tank nosed toward them, now twenty yards away, but it had no target except a building. ",
"Nobody was working the machine gun that must be on top.",
"\n\nThe tank clanked and clattered forward. ",
"Murdock didn't even try to figure out what kind of a tank it was. ",
"It was an old one, but still had a deadly sting, with a 75 to 90mm rifle mounted in it. ",
"It came closer. ",
"When it was ten yards away, Murdock said, \"Now.\" ",
"The three set the timers at ten seconds and threw the bombs.",
"\n\nMurdock's went first and landed just in front of the tank tread. ",
"He counted off the seconds. ",
"Holt's went next, and hit the tread on top and bounced off. ",
"Doc Ellsworth's bomb landed just in front of the side of the tread and bounced on the driving mechanism.",
"\n\n\"... eight, nine, ten,\" Murdock counted. ",
"His bomb under the tread went off. ",
"The big machine hadn't quite rolled all the way over the bomb, and it exploded with a shattering roar, lifting the side of the tank a foot off the ground. ",
"Two seconds later the bomb beside the tread blew up, and then Doc's TNAZ block on the inside of the tread went off, shattering the track and blowing it off the drivers. ",
"It acted as a brake, as the tank kept trying to run forward but only pivoted in a circle around the dead track.",
"\n\n\"Move it,\" Murdock said to his mike. \"",
"Run. ",
"Douglas get us to the fucking gate.\"",
"\n\nThey took some fire from the stragglers around the tank, but nobody got hit. ",
"They went to the side a block past more buildings, then the civilian pointed straight ahead, and they found the gate at the end of a street with no buildings.",
"\n\nMurdock had them on a no-shooting rule. ",
"No reason to let the bad guys know where they were.",
"\n\nThey made it almost to the gate at the fence when the assembly building blew up. ",
"At first it was one jolting explosion, then the rest of the TNAZ went off sympathetically and the sky lighted up like a fresh sun. ",
"It billowed upward for ten seconds, then they could hear lumber and pieces of metal falling to the ground.",
"\n\nMurdock shot the lock off the steel gate, and the jeep drove through.",
"\n\nHe stopped them a hundred feet down the road, and used the radio. \"",
"Magic, where are you guys? ",
"Did you fade down the fence to the entry point?\"",
"\n\nFor a moment he heard nothing. ",
"He repeated the words. ",
"Then a scratchy voice came through.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, we moved along the wire. ",
"Haven't seen you spooks. ",
"Where the hell are you? ",
"Passed our entry point. ",
"Gate is still wired shut.\"",
"\n\n\"Keep going the same direction. ",
"We're at the east end of the plant, just went through a gate in the wire. ",
"Get your SEAL asses down here pronto.\"",
"\n\n\"Like to, L-T, but we got ourselves one huge shitpot full of trouble. ",
"About twenty of these hairy-assed Iranians between us and you. ",
"They look shit-faced mean after that building blew up. ",
"You did good work on it.\"",
"\n\n\"How far are you past the hole in the fence?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Thirty yards, still a quarter mile to where I see the end of the buildings your way.\"",
"\n\n\"How's your ammo supply?\"",
"\n\n\"Damned near zero. ",
"I got two rounds for the fifty, maybe half a belt for the MG, no forties.\"",
"\n\n\"Hang tough, we're coming after you.\"",
"\n\nEveryone heard the exchange. ",
"The troops moved up to Murdock, and waited. \"",
"Franklin, Holt, stay here with Douglas and Kat. ",
"The rest of you on your horses. ",
"We double time until we spot some of the Iranian assholes along the fence.\"",
"\n\nThey trotted, with Lampedusa out front, in a semipatrol formation. ",
"Lam led them by thirty yards. ",
"It was so dark they couldn't see him. ",
"They had moved forward to the fence and along it for fifty yards, toward where they had entered the compound, when Lam hit his mike twice, and they all went to ground. ",
"Murdock crawled forward until he found Lam.",
"\n\n\"So?\"",
"\n\n\"Thirty yards ahead. ",
"Maybe two dozen camel eaters. ",
"They been firing now and then up the pike.\"",
"\n\n\"Move up, no noise,\" Murdock said in his mike.",
"\n\nTwo minutes later the SEALs had spread out in an assault formation, in a line five yards apart.",
"\n\n\"Fraggers,\" Murdock said. ",
"Every man had at least two. \"",
"Both\" he added on the radio. ",
"He gave the men a minute to get the hand bombs out of their vest pockets. ",
"Then he pulled the pin on his first grenade.",
"\n\n\"Now,\" he said. ",
"He threw his grenade forward. ",
"He heard some grunts as the other men threw their bombs. ",
"The ten fraggers went off in quick succession. ",
"They could hear wails of pain and fury ahead of them. ",
"They took some fire from the Iranians, but the second throw of grenades silenced those weapons.",
"\n\n\"Magic, you guys all A-OK?\"",
"\n\n\"Right as rain, Boss.\"",
"\n\n\"We're moving up to clean house. ",
"Don't shoot at us.\"",
"\n\nMurdock took the first four men he could see and waved them forward. ",
"They had their weapons ready for assault fire as they ran along the uneven Iranian hillside. ",
"They saw two Iranians running toward the fence. ",
"They let them go. ",
"There were no survivors on the playing field.",
"\n\n\"Double time, Magic. ",
"Get your team up here so we can haul ass. ",
"The whole place is going to be charging out here looking for our hides in about ten minutes.\"",
"\n\nThe five SEALs squatted, waiting for their men to arrive. ",
"They came three minutes later, two running, one limping badly. ",
"Magic had the limp.",
"\n\nGonzalez carried the big fifty McMillan. ",
"Ronson watched Magic.",
"\n\n\"Fucking glad to see you shebangers,\" Magic said. \"",
"We stayed in our place about ten minutes too long. ",
"We shoulda busted out of there before they got the troops in front of us.\"",
"\n\n\"You hit, big guy?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Just a scratch. ",
"I can move. ",
"Which way?\"",
"\n\nThey retraced their steps along the fence, toward the gate at the far end.",
"\n\n\"Coming in,\" Murdock said on the mike, and they teamed up with the rest of the group.",
"\n\n\"Now we get this outfit in gear and move down the road. ",
"We've got one more job to do.\"",
"\n\nThey hit the downslope almost at once, and Murdock let Douglas turn on the jeep's lights. ",
"The road was old, not kept up, made of dirt and filled with runoff gouges and ditches. ",
"The going was slow.",
"\n\nAfter ten minutes, they had left the nuke factory behind and were coming to the first good-sized hill to their left. ",
"The road ran directly to what must have been a quarry of some kind.",
"\n\n\"Drive it right up to the wall,\" Murdock said. ",
"Kat scampered out. ",
"They had left the civilian at the opened gate, and saw him run back toward the main buildings.",
"\n\n\"Get some TNAZ up here,\" Murdock called. ",
"Half the men still carried blocks of the powerful explosive. ",
"They brought it up, and Murdock placed it beside, in front of, and behind the jeep, against the heavy rock and dirt of the cliff overhead. ",
"He tied the charges together with primer cord, and stood there a moment taking a compass bearing.",
"\n\n\"We'll be heading almost due south,\" he said.",
"\n\nKat came up and nodded. \"",
"Bury the plutonium under hundreds of tons of dirt and rock. ",
"Yes, about the best we can hope for. ",
"Make sure you use enough explosive.\"",
"\n\nMurdock put four more quarter-pound chunks on the wall, then moved the people a hundred yards down the gully before he set the timers for ten minutes. ",
"He pushed the three timers to on, then jogged down to the rest of the group.",
"\n\nThe explosion was larger than the one at the nuke assembly building. ",
"The sky lit up again. ",
"This time the blast came in the open, and sounded louder than a hundred 105 howitzers going off together. ",
"A few rocks flew through the air as far as the SEALs, but none of them was hurt.",
"\n\n\"Doc, take a casualty report. ",
"Kat and I are going back to check on that explosion. ",
"We'll be back in five. ",
"Get the troops ready to travel, DeWitt.\"",
"\n\nThey ran up to the still smoking and dusty side of the mountain. ",
"The rock slide extended fifty yards on all sides from where they had parked the jeep and its deadly load. ",
"There must be a hundred feet of rock and dirt over the plutonium. ",
"It could be dug out, but the Iranians would have to be sure that was what was under there. ",
"Kat figured they wouldn't bother.",
"\n\n\"If they could get that much plutonium, they can get some more. ",
"At least we stopped them this time.\"",
"\n\nThey ran back to the other SEALs, put on their gear, and kept moving down the valley.",
"\n\n\"We'll get as far away from the place as we can while it's still dark,\" Murdock told the men on the Motorola. \"",
"Then we'll hole up during the day while they try to find us. ",
"Yes, they'll be coming. ",
"They don't have the chopper, but they do have a spotter plane, Douglas said. ",
"We might ask Magic to shoot it down if they find us.",
"\n\n\"I've got a suggestion. ",
"We're not going to need those damned Drager rebreathers for a long time. ",
"They weigh too much for us land-type SEALs. ",
"Let's ditch them here, and travel lighter. ",
"We won't worry about name brands now. ",
"Our job is to get our asses out of here and to the wet. ",
"I figure we have about fifty miles due south to the Gulf of Oman. ",
"There's supposed to be a sub out there somewhere waiting for us. ",
"Doc, find me.\"",
"\n\nMurdock heard the men unstrapping the rebreather units and dropping them. ",
"They could be tied to the U.S., but right then, Murdock wasn't worried about that. ",
"He had a platoon to get over fifty miles of enemy territory. ",
"He'd do it any way that he could.",
"\n\nThey worked ahead in their usual combat formation with Joe Lampedusa out front, and then First Squad, with Murdock leading.",
"\n\nDoc Ellsworth came up and paced beside Murdock. \"",
"We have any casualties?\"",
"\n\n\"Fernandez took a round in the right arm. ",
"Not too bad. ",
"I got it treated, and wrapped up. ",
"He's fit for service. ",
"The sprained ankle hasn't been bothering whoever had it. ",
"Sterling got a graze on his shoulder, just a scratch. ",
"Band-Aid time.",
"\n\n\"Magic is the worst. ",
"He has a round in his left thigh. ",
"It could have hit the bone, I'm not sure, but I do know the slug didn't come out. ",
"In way too deep for me to try to dig out the lead. ",
"That gives us three days at the most before he loses the leg. ",
"He tells me he can walk. ",
"Every step is hurting him. ",
"Not sure how much longer he can take it. ",
"I gave him two shots of morphine. ",
"It'll get worse every hour.\"",
"\n\nMurdock talked to his mike. \"",
"SEALs, we've been lucky so far. ",
"Some nicks and scratches and two bullet wounds. ",
"We have fifty miles to go, and when they figure out where we're heading, there will be all kinds of troops in here after us. ",
"Iran has over a half million men under arms, a good air force, a few naval ships, and a well-trained and armed army corps. ",
"They didn't have much up here at the plant, but you can bet your bottom babushka that they'll be coming after us now with everything they have. ",
"Choppers, paratroops, the works. ",
"We've got to remain as invisible as possible. ",
"No, Magic, you won't be trying to shoot down that spotter plane or any choppers. ",
"We're gonna dig a lot of holes on this one.\"",
"\n\nMurdock pushed the light on his watch.",
"\n\n\"It's now 2136. ",
"We were on-site too long, but nothing we can do about that now. ",
"We have about eight hours of darkness to move our asses. ",
"We go at the speed of our weakest man. ",
"We didn't tap any kegs of water in there, so let's take it easy on drinking. ",
"We may have to make it last for two more days. ",
"No water between here and the coast unless somebody is good with a staff against a hard rock.\"",
"\n\nMurdock heard a few chuckles and figured they were the Bible students.",
"\n\n\"Lam, keep us on a due south course unless a valley shows that will keep us out of climbing up and down these damn mountains. ",
"We can zigzag a little and make better time, so be it. ",
"Now, let's settle down and put in a good six miles an hour. ",
"Even if we can average four an hour, that will put us halfway to the bloody Gulf of Oman before daylight.\"",
"\n\nHe dropped back and walked beside Kat.",
"\n\n\"How's it going, SEAL lady?\"",
"\n\nShe grinned. \"",
"So far I haven't had to fire a shot. ",
"Maybe I'm a little disappointed. ",
"The bombs were not even halfdone. ",
"They won't be able to salvage anything from those blasts to use for new bombs. ",
"We've put their program back at least a year.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Now, about you. ",
"When I talked about going the speed of our weakest man, I didn't mean you. ",
"Magic Brown has a shot-up leg. ",
"He'll slow us down. ",
"As long as he's conscious, he'll walk. ",
"They'll be coming after us, so don't lose your shooting eye. ",
"You'll have plenty of times to test it out before we get wet.\"",
"\n\nKat looked at Murdock in the Iranian darkness. ",
"He liked the gleam of determination he saw in her eyes.",
"\n_25_\n\n# Wednesday, November 2\n\n## 2100 hours \nNuclear bomb factory \nChah Bahar, Iran\n\nGeneral Reza Ruhollah had been outside his commandeered headquarters at the bomb plant and on his way to where his men reported a firefight was in progress with aggressors. ",
"He was furious.",
"\n\n\"How the hell did anyone find us?\" ",
"he had asked his major aide. ",
"Then he shook his head. \"",
"If they did find us, how did they get through our security? ",
"Call out the rest of the military guard. ",
"Do it now.\"",
"\n\nThe major scurried away from the staff car where he had been talking to the general through the window. ",
"He headed for the nearest building with a phone.",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah had just ordered his driver to head for the bomb assembly plant, when the gigantic explosion rocked the whole area and turned the night into a false dawn as one thundering blast roared toward him and then on past with a surging rush of gale-force wind.",
"\n\n\"What in hell?\" ",
"Ruhollah stepped out of the car and stared ahead. ",
"Two hundred yards away, flames lit the sky. ",
"He bolted back in the car.",
"\n\n\"Drive,\" he shouted. \"",
"Get to that fire. ",
"Now!\"",
"\n\nThe driver started the car and drove ahead. ",
"A block closer to the fire he had to jog around debris in the road that evidently had been blasted there by the explosion. ",
"Half a block from the fire the driver stopped. ",
"A truck lay on its side in the road where it had been blown from near the bomb assembly building.",
"\n\n\"Far as we can drive, sir,\" the driver said.",
"\n\nThe general pushed open the door and stepped out. ",
"A wall of heat hit him and drove him back a step.",
"\n\n\"How could this happen?\"",
"\n\nHe looked around. ",
"A half dozen officers had gathered just out of the heat zone. ",
"He called to them, and they came over and saluted.",
"\n\n\"How bad is the damage?\"",
"\n\n\"General, sir. ",
"The entire assembly plant has been blasted out of existence. ",
"We're not sure if it was a malfunction of some of our explosives to be used in the bombs, or something else.\"",
"\n\n\"Explosives in a nuclear bomb?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, my General. ",
"Ten or twelve powerful ones set in a circle around the device. ",
"The mechanism will squirt tritium into the core at the moment the explosives ignite. ",
"This generates large quantities of neutrons to boost the fission reaction. ",
"That reaction in turn blasts more neutrons into another tritium supply, causing a fusion reaction. ",
"We were projecting about four hundred and fifty kilotons for each bomb.\"",
"\n\n\"How could this explosion happen?\" ",
"General Ruhollah bellowed. \"",
"I want a complete investigation. ",
"Wasn't there an attack from outside the wire tonight? ",
"How did that happen? ",
"Did we catch the attackers? ",
"Someone told me that there were some lights shot out in one section of the fence. ",
"Who did this? ",
"Is there a chance that there was some kind of invasion of our facility?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, my General. ",
"We have had reports of a small enemy force inside the wire. ",
"They killed a large number of our troops, and evidently forced all the civilian workers out of the bomb assembly building. ",
"They were military of some kind. ",
"The civilians did not recognize any insignia or style of uniform.\"",
"\n\n\"Why wasn't I told about this before now?\" ",
"General Ruhollah screeched, his face turning red.",
"\n\n\"We only now found out. ",
"There was an officers party for our commander's birthday, and—\"\n\n\"Idiots. ",
"You'll all be shot, of course. ",
"Consider yourself under house arrest. ",
"Go now.\"",
"\n\nThe officers saluted. ",
"The General didn't bother to return the salute. ",
"He edged closer to the flames. ",
"They were dying down now. ",
"Most of the building was indeed gone. ",
"There were only partial walls in places, no roof at all. ",
"The concrete floor of the large building seemed to be the only thing left intact.",
"\n\nGone.",
"\n\nAll six of his wonderful nuclear bombs were gone.",
"\n\nHe would have to start over. ",
"Build a new assembly building. ",
"Buy the hard-to-find plutonium and the tritium, and do all of the delicate machine tooling. ",
"Again.",
"\n\nHe paled then, thinking about the promises he had made to certain of his confidants. ",
"Within two months they would have six nuclear bombs. ",
"He had promised them that as an absolute, and the last of the huge amount of money had been designated for him.",
"\n\nCould he win them over for more money now that this setback had wiped out any possibility of getting the weapons in the near future? ",
"He figured it would take two years, even with the start they had with the facilities, and the experienced men doing the work. ",
"Two years. ",
"He shivered. ",
"Pursuit.",
"\n\nHe must find out where the attackers left the facility, and send every man he had chasing after them. ",
"Yes, that much he could do. ",
"He had two hundred regulars here, well-trained fighting men, some with combat experience.",
"\n\nHe hurried back to the car.",
"\n\n\"To my headquarters, quickly.\"",
"\n\nWhen he walked in, the facility commander and his top three men stood waiting for him.",
"\n\n\"General Ruhollah, we were attacked.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm well aware of that. ",
"Where did the force come in? ",
"Where did it leave the wire? ",
"Did they leave any dead behind?\"",
"\n\n\"General, they came in through a hole they cut in the wire about midway along the west fence. ",
"They shot out the lights on both sides, after they launched a diversion attack to the far end of the complex. ",
"They shot down our helicopter. ",
"We have found where they exited, near the southern end of the wire, where a fence closed off a construction road that led south to the rock quarry.\"",
"\n\n\"Idiots, have you sent troops after them?\"",
"\n\n\"No, General.\"",
"\n\n\"Send fifty heavily armed guards at once. ",
"The best men you have. ",
"Is there another helicopter?\"",
"\n\n\"No, General. ",
"We have one at Chah Bahar, but it was ordered to remain there.\"",
"\n\n\"Phone now, get it up here at first light.\"",
"\n\nThe Colonel in charge of the facility had been pointing at officers, and rushing them out of the room for each assignment.",
"\n\n\"Now, Colonel, I am horrified at your security arrangements. ",
"You have set our program back by at least two years. ",
"You will be brought up on charges of high treason. ",
"Consider yourself under house arrest. ",
"Who is your second in command?\"",
"\n\n\"Sir, that would be me.\" ",
"A Major stepped forward and saluted.",
"\n\n\"You, too, will be up on charges. ",
"Depending on how well you clean up the rubble of the assembly building, and reconstruct it, then bring in the required new machinery, equipment, and supplies that are needed, then we will see how severe your penalty will be. ",
"Be sure those troops chasing the attackers have orders to kill all of the bastards.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah waved them all out of the room. ",
"His aide came in with a fresh pot of special Turkish coffee that he loved. ",
"He sat down at the desk and began making plans. ",
"All of the troups on the facility would be sent out at first light. ",
"They would scour a swath two miles wide. ",
"Where would the attackers go?",
"\n\nIf they were Arab, they might go east into Pakistan. ",
"If they were from the Western whore-mongering nations, they would try to go straight south to the Gulf of Oman and escape to some ship, perhaps even a submarine.",
"\n\nHe would send troops both directions. ",
"The southern route was the more reasonable. ",
"However they were less than thirty miles to Pakistan, and more than fifty miles to the gulf. ",
"He would call Tehran at once and order the largest plane that could land at the dirt strip at Chah Bahar to bring in paratroopers. ",
"He would fly six more helicopters, gunships with door machine guns. ",
"He would alert the MiG jet fighters at Shiraz to fly over the area, watching for any movement on the ground, and to prevent any type of air rescue of the force.",
"\n\nHow many men did the raiders use? ",
"He had no idea. ",
"Fifty men, perhaps less. ",
"It was a hit-and-run attack. ",
"He could have done it with a dozen good men.",
"\n\nThe headache came again, grinding, stabbing, make him shut his eyes and hold his head. ",
"He needed relief. ",
"How in this boil on the butt of the devil could he find what he needed?",
"\n\nSlowly he sat down and picked up the phone. ",
"He had to make the calls, to get the troops and planes coming this direction. ",
"Time was the big factor now. ",
"He would have to show that he had slaughtered the squads of men who destroyed the nuclear bombs. ",
"That was the minimum he would need to do to convince his secret cabal of supporters that he must have more money, that they must make another effort to build their own nuclear bombs. ",
"It was the only way that Iran could take its proper place as the major world power that ruled all of the Mid Eastern Arabs. ",
"Yes, it must be done.",
"\n_26_\n\n# Wednesday, November 2\n\n## 2236 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\nMurdock moved his SEALs along at six miles an hour for the first quarter mile, then Doc Ellsworth caught up with him.",
"\n\n\"Skipper, Magic can't stand the pace. ",
"Better cut it down to four mph or we'll be carrying the big guy.\"",
"\n\n\"It's that bad?\"",
"\n\n\"It is. ",
"I'd give him a week of bed rest if I could.\"",
"\n\n\"Stay with him. ",
"Have him give the fifty, and the ammo he has left, to somebody else.\"",
"\n\n\"Will do, L-T.\"\n\nMurdock slowed the pace to what he knew was a mile every fifteen minutes. ",
"After another ten minutes he called a halt.",
"\n\n\"Check things out. ",
"Arrange your gear. ",
"Take a quick break. ",
"Holt, unpack that radio and let's give it a shot.\"",
"\n\nThree minutes later, Murdock had his message typed out on the screen. ",
"He read it again. \"",
"Bankrupt, the word is bankrupt. ",
"All is well, coming home. ",
"Murdock.\"",
"\n\nHe pushed the send button and the machine encrypted the message and shot it out in a burst that transmitted for only a tenth of a second. ",
"Bankrupt was the code word meaning the plant, and the bombs, had all been totally destroyed.",
"\n\n\"Wait for a response?\" ",
"Holt asked.",
"\n\n\"Give them two minutes, then we're moving.\"",
"\n\nNo response came. ",
"Murdock had checked his men. ",
"Ed DeWitt had done the same. ",
"Magic Brown was hurting. ",
"He was going to cost them a lot of time before they got wet.",
"\n\nThey had heard no response from the nuclear plant. ",
"There had been no sound of any troops following them the first half mile. ",
"Now they had wound over and around hills, and any sound of pursuit would be hushed.",
"\n\nThey marched out again.",
"\n\nMurdock dropped back beside Kat.",
"\n\n\"How's it going?\"",
"\n\n\"Fine. ",
"Remember I can out-hike, outrun, out-swim any of your guys. ",
"Don't worry about me. ",
"I am aware that I haven't fired a shot in anger yet, and I'm still packing this twenty pounds of armament and ammo.\"",
"\n\n\"Hey, maybe it's seven pounds, plus another six for ammo. ",
"You're lucky.\" ",
"He paused and watched her in the darkness. \"",
"You want to be in a firefight?\"",
"\n\n\"Not sure, but in the next fifty miles, I'd say it's more than likely that I'll find out. ",
"Right?\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"Remember the damned safety.\" ",
"He grinned, and went back to lead the platoon just in back of the scout.",
"\n\nThey worked down a slope, and then along a valley for another mile. ",
"Murdock checked with Lampedusa. ",
"He had a sense about direction, and the best compass in the outfit.",
"\n\n\"We're working a little southeast, but I correct every chance I get,\" Lam said. \"",
"This valley looked too damn tempting to pass up.\"",
"\n\n\"I agree. ",
"Magic is hurting, that's why we slowed it down. ",
"Keep no more than a hundred yards out front.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked on over the barren, rocky hills and gullies, down occasional valleys, and then up slopes again.",
"\n\nMurdock knew they were leaving a trail. ",
"Seventeen people couldn't move across this land and not leave a path any child could follow.",
"\n\nThey made two more miles.",
"\n\nMurdock thought he heard someone behind them in one long valley. ",
"He sent Jaybird Sterling back as a rear guard.",
"\n\n\"Just hold here for ten minutes, then come along slowly. ",
"If you hear or see anything behind us, shag ass up front, and let us know.\"",
"\n\nJaybird nodded and began walking to the rear. ",
"Murdock grinned, and went back to the front of the column.",
"\n\nMagic Brown's leg was worse. ",
"He walked with a decided limp now and had shucked off all of his equipment, including the combat vest. ",
"It was all he could do to keep up at a three-miles-an-hour pace. ",
"That meant anyone following them must be gaining.",
"\n\nMurdock turned the problem over in his mind again. ",
"Not much they could do to speed up Magic. ",
"What they had to do was slow down anyone coming behind them.",
"\n\nHe watched the landscape. ",
"Lam had them leave a narrow gorge and angle over a sharp hill. ",
"Just as they topped it, Murdock had what he wanted. ",
"He told Lam to get all the men over the ridgeline, and then hold them. ",
"He waited for Jaybird to come.",
"\n\n\"Got company all right, L-T. Guess they are about two miles behind us. ",
"Can't be sure, but it could be forty or fifty men, maybe more.\"",
"\n\n\"Get Adams up here. ",
"Let's have a welcome-home party for our Iranian hosts. ",
"Get two of those Claymore mines we brought. ",
"Have Adams set them on trip wires about a third of the way up the slope. ",
"Put two of them in sequence and aim the blasts to go downhill. ",
"Then get your asses back up here.\"",
"\n\nMurdock told the rest of them the plan and had them spread out along the ridgeline just over the top on the reverse slope. ",
"As soon as the mines went off, the whole platoon would fire into the same area, hoping to waste anyone left standing.",
"\n\nMurdock settled down beside Kat. ",
"She had her MP-5 up and ready.",
"\n\n\"This is good for fifty yards with the silencer,\" Kat said. \"",
"Why don't we take the silencers off? ",
"No need for quiet out here.\"",
"\n\n\"Good idea.\" ",
"He sent word on the Motorola to have half the men with MP-5's remove the silencer and put them in their packs.",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch. ",
"It was after 0120. ",
"A long time to daylight.",
"\n\nThey waited.",
"\n\nFor a moment, Murdock caught the sound of equipment jangling. ",
"That had to come from the Iranians.",
"\n\nJaybird and Al Adams rolled over the ridge, and found places along the shooting line.",
"\n\n\"All set, L-T,\" Jaybird reported.",
"\n\n\"We all fire when the second Claymore goes off,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Don't wait for me. ",
"Fire on that second blast.\"",
"\n\nFive minutes later they could hear some talk from below.",
"\n\nA cough.",
"\n\nThen someone called out in Farsi.",
"\n\n\"Said something about hurry up, too slow,\" Franklin reported.",
"\n\nTwo minutes more.",
"\n\nThe Iranian hillside blossomed with a jagged red-and-yellow light and a rolling, cracking explosion as the first Claymore detonated. ",
"The flash of light faded in a few seconds, but the shrill cries of pain and desperation echoed up the hill. ",
"The sound of the first explosion had almost faded when the second blast tore through the night.",
"\n\nA half second later sixteen weapons fired down the slope. ",
"Murdock had his MP-5 set on three rounds and the silencer off. ",
"He chattered out six rounds and looked over at Kat.",
"\n\nShe held the weapon tightly, stared down the sights, and at last squeezed the trigger. ",
"It spat out three rounds. ",
"She nodded, moved the muzzle slightly, and fired again. ",
"Then Murdock went back to his own weapon and emptied one magazine, before he hit his mike three times, ending the shooting.",
"\n\n\"We moving down there?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\n\"No,\" Murdock said, making up his mind in a nanosecond. \"",
"Let's saddle up and get out of here. ",
"Lam out front. ",
"Come on, move. ",
"Some of the survivors might still come after us.\" ",
"The platoon heard the order on their radios, and quickly moved down the hill, away from the slaughter, half expecting some return fire from survivors who would work their way up the hill and fire blindly in revenge.",
"\n\nAfter a half mile, they figured no one was going to shoot back at them.",
"\n\n\"An even bet that they will wait for dawn, and count up their casualties, then try to get their wounded back to the nuke plant,\" Murdock said on the radio. \"",
"Meantime we make tracks until dawn ourselves, then figure out what to do.\"",
"\n\nMurdock checked on Magic. ",
"He was still walking, but his left arm was over Horse Ronson's shoulder.",
"\n\n\"Hell, we can keep up with you Boy Scouts,\" Magic said. ",
"But Murdock heard the voice nearly crack. ",
"There was none of the usual bluster the big black man was so good at projecting.",
"\n\nThey kept walking.",
"\n\nAt 0300, Murdock called a break.",
"\n\nDoc changed the bandage on Magic's left leg. ",
"He shook his head. ",
"It was still bleeding. ",
"He put a heavy pressure pad over the wound and wrapped it tightly. ",
"The bleeding stopped. ",
"He checked his watch. ",
"Too soon for another morphine shot.",
"\n\nBy the time Doc finished binding up Magic's leg, he had dropped off to sleep. ",
"Doc went to Murdock.",
"\n\n\"Can we give Magic an hour to sleep? ",
"He went out like a baby. ",
"He's damn weak, L-T.\"\n\n\"We've got two hours to dawn. ",
"He can sleep then. ",
"Let him have a half hour, then we get out of here. ",
"We've got to find a spot to hole up for the daylight hours.\"",
"\n\nMurdock had Douglas come up front.",
"\n\n\"You said you saw a high-wing Piper Cub-type spotter plane. ",
"There wasn't any place I saw near the bomb plant where they could land one. ",
"Did it come up from Chah Bahar?\"",
"\n\n\"My guess is that they have a small dirt strip somewhere in back of the plant. ",
"You can land those things on two hundred yards, sometimes less. ",
"A bulldozer and two days would scrape out a workable landing field.\"",
"\n\n\"So, it will be in the air at first light. ",
"We need to be dug in somewhere. ",
"Thanks, Douglas. ",
"You and Franklin did an outstanding job going into Tehran. ",
"Have to tell me sometime how you got fifteen hundred miles down here.\"",
"\n\nDouglas waved, and went back to his spot in the Second Squad formation.",
"\n\nThey called a halt at 0530. ",
"It wasn't dawn yet. ",
"Lampedusa had found a craggy little canyon with lots of twists and turns and places where the cloudbursts had sent torrents down the place, carving out holes, sharp edges, and sinks.",
"\n\n\"Just like before,\" Murdock said on the Motorola. \"",
"Find yourself a hole and crawl in. ",
"Have your camo cloth ready to cover up for the spotter plane. ",
"Anybody have any trouble, give a yell.\"",
"\n\nMurdock watched Kat. ",
"She was the first one to pick a spot, settle in a hollow, and pull the camo cloth over her, right up to her eyes. ",
"He eased down beside her.",
"\n\n\"You get in any rounds back up there?\"",
"\n\n\"Yep.\"",
"\n\n\"Hit anybody?\"",
"\n\n\"Don't know. ",
"Actually I don't want to know. ",
"I fired the damn weapon like I was supposed to.\" ",
"There was a sharpness in her tone. ",
"He looked at her but she didn't say anything more.",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"You did fine. ",
"Some sleep wouldn't hurt.\" ",
"Murdock checked the covers for each of his people. ",
"Ed did the same. ",
"Murdock said he'd take the first watch of two hours. ",
"They'd be in place all day, so some sleep would be good. \"",
"If we hear that spotter plane, I'll give some clicks on your Motorola.\"",
"\n\nHe watched the sixteen settle down. ",
"Within ten minutes he had trouble remembering who was where. ",
"Most of them he couldn't pick out from twenty yards away. ",
"He found his own spot where the water had dug out a two-foot-deep gully and squirmed into it. ",
"He sat with his back against the end of the hole and watched.",
"\n\n\"Murdock,\" Kat said softly. ",
"She was about ten feet away.",
"\n\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\n\"You do good work.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks, Kat. ",
"So do you.\"",
"\n\nShe was quiet then and Murdock turned to watch a small tarantula moving up on a large beetle. ",
"It would be no contest once the tarantula got its stinging tail working.",
"\n\nAn hour later he heard the first buzz of an airplane motor.",
"\n\n\"People, Third Platoon. ",
"We have company. ",
"A wee aircraft somewhere to the north. ",
"Not sure how far away or if he's coming our direction. ",
"Just want to be sure you know he's about. ",
"DeWitt, take a squad check.\"",
"\n\nMurdock listened as all seven of his squad members checked in. ",
"Murdock did the same for First Squad. ",
"They reported in order of march.",
"\n\n\"So, everyone's awake, we'll see where our little buddy airplane goes.\"",
"\n\nIt was quiet then. ",
"Now and then they could hear a whisper from a soft breeze that missed them in the gully, and the call of an occasional bird. ",
"Murdock didn't remember seeing a bird since they had landed in this desolate spot. ",
"Must be a desert hawk or a vulture of some kind.",
"\n\nThe tarantula struck once, and the stunned beetle turned toward it. ",
"The second lash of the tail penetrated the beetle's shell, and a moment later the black bug collapsed on its legs and the tarantula moved up for its meal.",
"\n\nThe sound of the plane came closer. ",
"Murdock moved lower in his hole and pulled the camo cloth up higher. ",
"He wished he had brought some binoculars. ",
"Next time.",
"\n\nA moment later the aircraft flew directly over them across the gully, so the pilot or observer would have only a few seconds to look into the ravine.",
"\n\n\"Surprise,\" Murdock said in his mike. \"",
"Check your cover, he'll be back. ",
"Don't think he can see our foot tracks from even that altitude, but can't be sure. ",
"Next time we wipe out our tracks before we hole up.\"",
"\n\nThey waited fifteen minutes and couldn't hear the plane.",
"\n\n\"Doubt if he'll be back now,\" Murdock radioed. \"",
"Let's get some sleep.\"",
"\n\nHe looked over at the small animal war. ",
"The victor had eaten and left. ",
"There was nothing remaining of the big black beetle but the hard shell and two spindly legs.",
"\n\nSurvival.",
"\n\nThat's what life is all about. ",
"Especially for the Third Platoon right now. ",
"Survival. ",
"His job was to get his men, and Kat, out of Iran without losing anyone.",
"\n\nSurvival.",
"\n\n\"Murdock?\"",
"\n\nIt was Kat.",
"\n\n\"You don't sound asleep.\"",
"\n\n\"Not nearly. ",
"How many men did you say Iran has under arms?\"",
"\n\n\"Over half a million.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn. ",
"And only seventeen of us.\"",
"\n\nThe silence stretched out.",
"\n\n\"Logically, it seems that they should be able to throw a couple of thousand troops between us and the coast, stop us cold.\"",
"\n\n\"It would seem so, wouldn't it, Kat?\"",
"\n\n\"Hey, Lieutenant. ",
"I know you and your men are good—hell, the best at this kind of work. ",
"But the odds of a thousand to one say there really isn't much you can do.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, they have to find us before they can stop us.\"",
"\n\n\"After last night's hit on their people, they will damn well know which direction we're headed.\"",
"\n\n\"True, Kat. ",
"True. ",
"They still have to find us.\"",
"\n\nAnother silence.",
"\n\n\"How long before they fly in the reserves? ",
"What will it be, paratroopers dropping in on us out of the daytime sky?\"",
"\n\n\"Probably. ",
"And trucked-in troops when we get down far enough that there are a few roads into this barren, desert wilderness.\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock, we practiced that chopper rescue at sea, when we went up the rope ladder. ",
"Couldn't they do that on land just as well, or even set down on a gully floor somewhere?\"",
"\n\n\"Could. ",
"But then you have an open overflight of a foreign military force. ",
"Plainly an invasion of a sovereign nation. ",
"The brass doesn't like to do that sort of thing.\"",
"\n\n\"Remember that old World War Two movie, _They Were Expendable_?\"",
"\n\n\"I remember the title. ",
"We're not in that class. ",
"The SEALs never leave one man behind on a battlefield, let alone a whole fucking platoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Sorry, guess I'm thinking too much.\"",
"\n\n\"Never hurts to think, Kat.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, maybe. ",
"I'm done thinking. ",
"I'm gonna snore.\"",
"\n\nMurdock chuckled. \"",
"You do that. ",
"I'll never tell.\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock?\"",
"\n\n\"Sure.\"",
"\n\n\"You said we never leave a man behind. ",
"What if a two-hundred-forty-pound man got killed. ",
"Say today. ",
"How can we carry that man's body out forty miles without compromising the rest of the platoon?\"",
"\n\n\"Point taken. ",
"I buried one SEAL on foreign soil. ",
"Last mission we towed a body through the surf and out to sea for a submarine pickup. ",
"I didn't like either job. ",
"I'm going to do my damnedest to see that I don't have to do either one of them again.\"",
"\n\n\"But it could happen?\"",
"\n\n\"Absolutely.\"",
"\n\n\"Good night, Murdock.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, dreams of D.C.\"\n\nMurdock looked over to where Kat lay, but for a moment couldn't find her. ",
"Then the ground moved slightly, her camo cover. ",
"He nodded, and stared down their back trail. ",
"They were on the side of the gully well off the small valley's floor. ",
"He could see over two small ridges they had climbed.",
"\n\nHis head snapped to one side as he refocused on one spot along the back trail. ",
"Had he seen a flash of light? ",
"He concentrated on the area, and it came again, a flash of sunlight off something.",
"\n\nOff what? ",
"An Iranian soldier's unblued rifle barrel? ",
"A shiny unit metal pin?",
"\n\nHe estimated the distance. ",
"Not more than two miles. ",
"Could there be a force of Iranian infantry that close to them? ",
"There was no way their tracks directly to this ravine could be missed by a land unit.",
"\n\nMurdock spoke softly into his mike. \"",
"DeWitt, we may have a problem. ",
"Check the back trail. ",
"Thought I saw some sun flashes back there.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm looking,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"So far nothing.\"",
"\n\n\"I'm higher on the ravine,\" Jaybird said. \"",
"Let me give it a five-minute scan. ",
"If they have a unit that close, we just jumped into a sinkhole of deep shit.\"",
"\n_27_\n\n# Thursday, November 3\n\n## 0740 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\nJaybird watched for the flash. ",
"It was two or three minutes later when he spoke. \"",
"Oh, yeah, I see it again. ",
"One odd thing about it, I don't see any movement.\"",
"\n\nEd DeWitt chimed in on the Motorola net. \"",
"Yeah, I had the same feeling. ",
"Either the troops are hunkered down there resting, or it's something not connected to Iranian military.\"",
"\n\n\"Which would be great news for us,\" Murdock said. ",
"He scowled for a minute. \"",
"We better know which. ",
"Lam, you tuned in?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, sir.\"",
"\n\n\"How about a small scouting mission. ",
"You can stick to the shadows this early for most of the way. ",
"You'll need to get up that second small ridge to check it out.\"",
"\n\n\"On my way. ",
"I'll leave my vest here and take my Colt. ",
"It's what, about two miles. ",
"That's about fifteen minutes each way. ",
"I'll try out the Motorola at two miles and see what you receive.\"",
"\n\n\"Go, take care. ",
"If it is the Iranians and they come at you, we'll have the fifty out and warmed up.\"",
"\n\n\"That's a Roger, L-T. I'm on my way.\"",
"\n\nMurdock saw a patch of bare sand twenty yards ahead of him collapse, then Lampedusa lifted out, left the camo cloth, and jogged down the ravine, careful not to step on anybody.",
"\n\nThey watched him work along the Iranian hills. ",
"Some of the time they couldn't see him in the shadows. ",
"The desert cammies blended in well with the barren landscape.",
"\n\nHe made it up the first slope, and paused. ",
"He couldn't see the flashing from there.",
"\n\n\"The flashes keep coming,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"Still looks like the same spot. ",
"No movement is a good sign.\"",
"\n\nFive minutes later, they saw him cresting the second ridge. ",
"He flattened out, and seemed to look over the top. ",
"The report came in snatches on the Motorola. ",
"It was line of sight, which helped.",
"\n\n\"Nada... see... neg... On my...\" He broke off the transmission, and jogged back down the slope, into more shadows.",
"\n\nFifteen minutes later he was back.",
"\n\n\"Some kind of a tin can. ",
"It was off our line of march. ",
"Maybe one of the prospectors left it there. ",
"Bright and shiny with the label torn off. ",
"It rolled back and forth between two little ridges, and flashed the sun on most of the moves.\"",
"\n\nMurdock told them to get back to sleep.",
"\n\nEd DeWitt said he'd take the watch. ",
"He said Franklin would be next up in two hours. ",
"Murdock pulled the camo coverup over him and tried to get comfortable. ",
"He didn't make it.",
"\n\n\"Lieutenant, you might try counting the live Iraqis and the Saudi Arabians that we saved by blowing up those nukes.\" ",
"It was Kat. \"",
"Iran would have run roughshod over this part of the world. ",
"All they would have to do was drop one bomb to take out a secondary Arab city, and the whole subcontinent would fall right into their laps.\"",
"\n\n\"About what State said in some of their comments. ",
"They were dead set on killing the Iranian project. ",
"If we make a little noise about it, it could slow down efforts by other Arab states to try the same thing.\"",
"\n\n\"Like Iraq. ",
"Yeah, I agree.\"",
"\n\nMurdock shook his head. \"",
"Somehow visions of pretty Arab girls with veils on jumping over a fence don't help me sleep.\"",
"\n\n\"You'll think of something. ",
"Good night again, Murdock.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, Kat, good dreams to you, too.\"",
"\n\nMurdock figured he must have nodded off. ",
"The next thing he knew his earpiece yelped at him.",
"\n\n\"We got trouble, L-T.\" It was Franklin's voice so it must be after 1000 hours. \"",
"That damn spotter plane is coming back. ",
"He's been around this area for five minutes, but this time he's coming dead over us going up the gully the long way. ",
"Gives him a good look at our little colony here.\"",
"\n\n\"Everyone check your camo cloths, be sure everything is under cover,\" Murdock said loudly in the mike to be sure to wake everyone.",
"\n\nDeWitt took a squad check, then Murdock did the same. ",
"All hands were awake and covered.",
"\n\nThen the light plane swung into place directly over the ravine. ",
"There were no tall mountains around it, and the small bird had to be no more than fifty feet over the top of the hill that had spawned the ravine. ",
"Murdock marveled at how slow the plane flew, then figured it had a headwind to keep the wing fooled about the stall speed.",
"\n\nThe plane seemed to hang in the air almost motionless, then dipped its nose slightly. ",
"The engine gunned, and it flew on over the hill above the gully.",
"\n\n\"Did he see anything?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\n\"Not fucking much,\" Ron Holt said.",
"\n\nLampedusa came on. \"",
"Don't be too sure. ",
"I hear a chopper.\"",
"\n\nThey were all quiet for a minute.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, I've got him coming straight up our gullet. ",
"He can take all the look time he needs to.\" ",
"It was Joe Douglas talking.",
"\n\n\"Check those coverups,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Everyone stay undercover, and don't even breathe. ",
"He'll be over us in about thirty seconds. ",
"Small, chopper, not more than a four-man rig. ",
"No more transmissions.\"",
"\n\nMurdock knew it was highly unlikely that the small chopper would have a scanner-type receiver that could pick up anything broadcast by checking all frequencies a hundred times a minute. ",
"But they kept quiet anyway.",
"\n\nMurdock had a slit in the camo cloth over his eyes to watch through. ",
"The chopper came straight at them, up the length of the twisting and turning ravine. ",
"It was about seventy-five yards long here. ",
"Plenty of room for the troops, but also a small area for the chopper to concentrate on. ",
"The bird moved slower, then hovered well down the gully.",
"\n\nMurdock worried that it might get so low that it would blow the camo cloth right off his men. ",
"Then the chopper did a little dance as a serious updraft caught it and boosted it twenty yards more into the sky.",
"\n\nIt came down a little, and still the men inside appeared to concentrate on the spot where Third Platoon had hidden. ",
"It moved closer, then had to lift a little to clear the sharp side of the canyon's wall.",
"\n\nMurdock saw the rotor wash from the chopper kick up dust in the canyon. ",
"The ship moved higher so the dust wouldn't obscure everything on the ground. ",
"A flap of one of the cammo cloths lifted up a moment, then settled back down, covering the SEAL.",
"\n\nMurdock held his breath. ",
"The chopper moved forward, up the slope, went past where Murdock and Kat lay, and higher, until it had to surge upward to get over the top of the canyon's slopes.",
"\n\nThen it was gone.",
"\n\n\"He will be back,\" Murdock said in his mike. \"",
"Make sure that all the corners of your hideout camo cloth are secure. ",
"We almost had one whip off somebody a moment ago.\"",
"\n\nAs he finished saying it, the helicopter made a return run, working down the slope this time, keeping a little higher so it wouldn't kick up dust, but this also kept the men inside from making a detailed observation of the area.",
"\n\nMurdock eased apart the camo cloth and watched the bird move down the slope. ",
"At the bottom it paused, hovering, dropped down to ten feet, and kicked up a storm cloud of dust and dirt, then lifted away, and vanished over the next hill to the north.",
"\n\n\"L-T, I don't think he'll be back this time,\" Doc said. \"",
"I should check on Magic.\"",
"\n\n\"Go,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nA piece of the desert opened up and folded back, and Doc Ellsworth scurried down ten yards and pulled back another piece of camo cloth. ",
"He worked quickly, removing the old bandage, adding some disinfectant, then wrapping the wound again. ",
"When he was done, he eased the leg back under the camo cloth, piled sand around the outside of it and hurried back to his own hide hole.",
"\n\n\"L-T. Like I told Magic, his leg doesn't look any better. ",
"A little more swelling. ",
"There's infection inside the wound that I can't get to. ",
"That slug has got to come out in thirty-six hours.\"",
"\n\n\"Right, Doc. ",
"We'll try to figure something.\" ",
"He checked his watch. ",
"It was 1042. ",
"Too damn much daylight left. ",
"He figured this first day would be the hardest, while they were the closest to the nuke plant.",
"\n\n\"Let's get some more sleep,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Who's on watch?\"",
"\n\n\"I am,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nMurdock started to protest, then shook his head. \"",
"Good, Kat. ",
"Stay awake, stay alert to any sound or sight that might get us in trouble. ",
"Yell into your mike if that chopper comes back or you see any paratroopers hitting the silk.\"",
"\n\n\"Aye, aye, L-T. I can do that.\"",
"\n\nMurdock lifted the edge of his camo cloth and looked over at Kat. ",
"She had pushed up a little so her face was out of the camo. ",
"It gave her a good view of the canyon and the hills beyond and the sky. ",
"She was set.",
"\n\nMurdock couldn't go to sleep. ",
"The adrenaline still pulsated through his system. ",
"It had been close with that chopper. ",
"One loose chunk of camo cover and they would have been made. ",
"Running in the daylight would have been fatal for them.",
"\n\nAt least eight more hours of daylight. ",
"What else could go wrong?",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"Murdock. ",
"Wake up, L-T.\"\n\nMurdock came out of his sleep rubbing his eyes, almost pushing the camo cloth away, then he remembered. \"",
"Yes, Kat?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes. ",
"We've got a plane. ",
"Bigger one, at least two propellers up high. ",
"Seems to be cruising around waiting for some instructions. ",
"I've seen it three times now. ",
"Must be up four or five thousand feet. ",
"Could be more. ",
"Not going fast, so it isn't a jet. ",
"Sounds like a prop plane.\"",
"\n\n\"I saw it,\" Les Quinley said. \"",
"Must have been the last pass. ",
"Kat's right, it's up high, just cruising. ",
"My guess is paratroopers. ",
"Not more than, maybe, fifteen in a crate like that.\"",
"\n\n\"Figures,\" Murdock said. \"",
"They could fly a plane up here from Chah Bahar. ",
"If they have paratroopers there, they could dump them out of anything that flew and had a door to open.\"",
"\n\n\"Sure, but they still need a pinpoint location to drop them,\" DeWitt chimed in. \"",
"That they don't have because the chopper and the spotter plan haven't given them one yet. ",
"We're still in the ball game.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, but when do we get to bat?\" ",
"It was Ken Ching.",
"\n\n\"We had our first inning ups,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Back there on that hill last night, and we hit a home run. ",
"Now we wait for our next shot at batting. ",
"Until then it's a waiting game. ",
"Not a damn thing we can do until it gets dark.\"",
"\n\n\"Seven more fucking hours!\" ",
"somebody said.",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch. ",
"1208. \"",
"Who's next on watch?\"",
"\n\n\"I'll do it,\" Al Adams said. \"",
"Can't sleep on this damn gravel mattress anyway.\"",
"\n\n\"So, the rest of you, get some sleep. ",
"It's going to be one hell of a long night once we get in motion.\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock.\" ",
"It was Kat across the way.",
"\n\nHe turned away from his lip mike. \"",
"Yes, Kat.\"",
"\n\n\"I keep thinking about that damn movie.\"",
"\n\n\"That was another time, another war. ",
"Hell, we had over four hundred thousand dead in World War Two. ",
"That's the war that movie was about, the Expendables. ",
"Couple of dozen more was nothing back then.\"",
"\n\n\"Except for that couple of dozen.\"",
"\n\n\"True.\" ",
"There was a long silent time.",
"\n\n\"So we're seventeen,\" Murdock said. \"",
"We have more accidental deaths than that every year in the services. ",
"One year the Navy lost almost three hundred men and women dead in auto crashes while off duty.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, but you're on duty,\" Kat said. \"",
"I've been thinking about Magic. ",
"There is no way he can last three or four days. ",
"Not a chance he can walk another, what, forty miles, or more. ",
"Hell, Murdock, maybe we are expendable.\"",
"\n\n\"No chance. ",
"Shut up that kind of talk. ",
"We're all getting out of here, every one of us. ",
"Magic included. ",
"Now, Lieutenant Kat, I fully expect you to get to sleep. ",
"You'll need the rest once we start moving with the darkness.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, Daddy,\" she said. ",
"He could imagine that sneaky grin of hers.",
"\n\nHe snorted and closed his eyes. ",
"He figured he'd just rest them a minute.",
"\n\nWhen he woke up, it was 1640. ",
"He let the camo part briefly and looked around. ",
"He couldn't see anybody. ",
"Good. ",
"He positioned the lip mike.",
"\n\n\"Who is on watch?\"",
"\n\n\"Washington,\" the answer came back.",
"\n\n\"Anything moving?\"",
"\n\n\"No, sir. ",
"No planes or choppers, nothing except one hyper mouse of some kind and a giant tarantula. ",
"Each thinks he's going to eat the other one.\"",
"\n\nMurdock eased back his camo cloth and sat up, resting his back against the sculptured dirt. ",
"He took a much folded topographical map of the area from inside his shirt and checked it. ",
"He had plotted in the exact location of the plant previously, using the mugger. ",
"Now he estimated the distance they had moved south. ",
"Was it six or eight miles?",
"\n\nHe wanted to know. ",
"He took out the mugger. ",
"It was the size of a cellular phone and had been in his webbing. ",
"He pulled out a small antenna they had adapted for land use, turned on the set, and let it search for the closest four Global Positioning Satellites in high orbit overhead.",
"\n\nWithin a few seconds they were locked on and reported his exact location within a plus or minus ten feet. ",
"He read the alphanumerical figures on the small screen. ",
"They were longitude and latitude. ",
"He checked the map again, made a few wavy lines from the borders, and nailed down the position. ",
"They were a little over ten miles from the plant. ",
"That left forty miles.",
"\n\nMagic, Magic, Magic. ",
"He put the mugger away and tried to come up with something that would work. ",
"That one small plane, with ten to twenty paratroopers, could blow up into ten or twelve large transports with a hundred paratroops in each one. ",
"They could bring in truckloads of infantry when the SEALs got closer to the coast. ",
"Damnit, Iran could seal off the coast from them with five thousand troops if they really wanted to.",
"\n\nFrom everything he had seen so far, somebody wanted to catch them so bad that he would use every available man and machine that Iran had at its military command.",
"\n\nThe watch changed. ",
"Murdock was still thinking about what to do when the sun slid behind the mountain to the west and dusk fell.",
"\n\n\"Up and at 'em,\" Murdock said in the mike. \"",
"Time to haul ourselves out of here and make some time down the road.\"",
"\n\nDoc was the first one to Murdock, even before he had his cammo sheet folded and packed.",
"\n\n\"Better come and talk to Magic, L-T. He's not good. ",
"We're gonna have to do something to keep him with us.\"",
"\n_28_\n\n# Thursday, November 3\n\n## 1910 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\n\"Magic? ",
"How bad is he? ",
"What do you mean do something to keep him with us?\"",
"\n\n\"Not fatal, no, he's in good spirits. ",
"His damn leg is hurting like crazy. ",
"I've overdosed him on morphine as it is. ",
"What I think we better do is trash his pistol and K-bar, all of his equipment. ",
"Dig a hole for it. ",
"He can't carry anything but himself. ",
"Somebody else has the fifty and the ammo.\"",
"\n\nAll around them men came out of their holes, dusted off the cammo cloth, and folded it up. ",
"Murdock knelt down beside Magic, who sat on the ground.",
"\n\n\"Hey, Magic. ",
"Shuck out of that combat vest. ",
"You don't need to carry that anymore. ",
"We'll leave it here for the stupid Iranians. ",
"Put it in your hole and have the guys kick it full of dirt from the sides. ",
"Nobody will find it for a hundred years. ",
"How are you feeling?\"",
"\n\n\"Hurts like hell, L-T. Got myself fucked up good this time. ",
"Holding up the march. ",
"Fuck it!\"",
"\n\n\"No sweat. ",
"We're going to get out of here. ",
"Dark now, and they can't see us, so we move on down the trail. ",
"Another good night of hiking, and we'll be close to the water.\"",
"\n\n\"Try my damnedest, L-T.\"\n\nMurdock slapped him on the shoulder gently, and went back to his hole. ",
"He had his gear on, and his weapon in hand in a minute, and checked around. ",
"Nobody could tell that they had been there. ",
"Kat stood waiting for him.",
"\n\n\"Magic?\"",
"\n\n\"Not good. ",
"We'll be moving at his pace.\"",
"\n\nMurdock sent Lam out front, then brought up Magic and Ronson in line right behind Kat. ",
"Magic had his arm across Ronson's shoulder. ",
"Just moving fifty feet was work for Magic. ",
"They hiked back down to the small valley, and used it for half a mile before they had to climb another of the never-ending hills.",
"\n\nMurdock figured they were making less than two miles an hour now. ",
"Magic was dragging one foot as he moved forward.",
"\n\nJust past 2040, Lam came back and called to Murdock.",
"\n\n\"Got some company up front. ",
"Don't know where they came from, but they're on a damned picnic. ",
"Three big fires, and what must be about twenty small cooking fires. ",
"You better take a look.\"",
"\n\nThe moon had come out from behind some clouds, and the outline of a valley fully a quarter of a mile wide showed in the dim light. ",
"In the center of it were the fires. ",
"Voices floated up from half a mile away. ",
"Murdock figured the valley was a mile long. ",
"A huge open space in this maze of ridges, canyons, gullies, and mountains.",
"\n\n\"Must be a hundred men down there,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Twenty cooking fires and five men to a fire. ",
"Too many for us. ",
"Can we slip by at the left-hand edge of the valley? ",
"It looks like they're slightly toward the right side.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll go take a look. ",
"Be a lot easier on Magic if we can. ",
"How's he doing?\"",
"\n\n\"Not the best. ",
"As long as he can walk, we move.\"",
"\n\nThe men, and Kat, moved up to the edge of the valley and waited for Lam. ",
"He moved out like a shadow, and was soon lost in the nighttime haze.",
"\n\nTen minutes later, he came back.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, lots of room, as long as we don't talk or rattle. ",
"They don't have any security out, no patrols, from what I could tell. ",
"I hope they don't surprise us.\"",
"\n\nAl Adams took Ronson's place, helping Magic and the file move out. ",
"They were five yards apart now, in combat mode, just in case a lucky round or fragger came in. ",
"That way it could nail only one man.",
"\n\nThey moved silently along the open valley. ",
"It was smooth and flat, and looked like it might have been a huge lake at one time. ",
"They came near the Iranian troops, heard them shouting and laughing, and moved on past without a word.",
"\n\nWhen they were at the end of the valley, they lifted up and over a slight rise, then Lam had a new bearing for them. ",
"Again they angled to the right, and went along a new small valley, then over another low ridge and down a narrow ravine into what might have been a streambed, which lasted for almost a mile. ",
"Then it simply vanished.",
"\n\n\"Underground,\" DeWitt said. \"",
"The ancient river probably went underground at this point.\"",
"\n\nThey took a break. ",
"Magic sat down and Doc looked at his leg. ",
"It was swollen more. ",
"It had started bleeding again. ",
"Doc replaced the bandage and wrapped it. ",
"Magic gritted his teeth through it all.",
"\n\nKen Ching came up and talked to Magic.",
"\n\n\"Hey, man, you ever been hypnotized?\"",
"\n\n\"No, I don't want to run around flapping my arms and crowing like a chicken.\"",
"\n\nKen laughed. \"",
"Not that show business stuff, the real medical kind of hypnotism.\"",
"\n\n\"Nope, not me. ",
"Nobody's gonna dangle a watch in front of me and put me out. ",
"I want to know what I'm doing.\"",
"\n\nKen shrugged. \"",
"Just wondered. ",
"Hypnotism is sometimes used to control intense pain.\"",
"\n\n\"Hell, not me.\"",
"\n\nKen waved and moved back to his gear. ",
"Doc followed him.",
"\n\n\"Ching, you can hypnotize people?\"",
"\n\n\"Sure, been doing it for years. ",
"I do myself when I go to the dentist, no Novocain that way.\"",
"\n\n\"Let me work on Magic. ",
"If you hypnotized him, the pain would still be there, but he wouldn't feel it?\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"He'd still limp and walk with a lot of trouble, but the pain would be gone.\"",
"\n\n\"I'll get back to you.\"",
"\n\nThey moved out again.",
"\n\nMurdock listened to what Doc had to say about Ken Ching.",
"\n\n\"Yes, it works,\" Murdock said. \"",
"But Magic would have to want to be hypnotized before he'd go under. ",
"Talk about it to the big guy.\"",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch. ",
"2300. ",
"They had been on the move for over two hours. ",
"Murdock figured they had covered five miles at the most. ",
"He wasn't sure how Magic did it. ",
"If he went down, their run would be over.",
"\n\nA half hour later, they had managed another small ridge, worked through one more half-mile valley, and climbed up another slope. ",
"Doc Ellsworth came back to Murdock.",
"\n\n\"Magic says what the fuck, give it a try. ",
"Ken says we won't even have to stop walking. ",
"He'll do it all with his voice. ",
"If you hear some mumbling and grumbling back here, that's what it is.\"",
"\n\nMurdock sagged back a few steps to listen.",
"\n\n\"Magic, you know me. ",
"You know I wouldn't do anything to hurt you in any way, right?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, man, right.\"",
"\n\n\"Okay, I'm going to hypnotize you. ",
"That just means that you and I will work together to put you in a kind of trance. ",
"In this trance you won't do anything that you wouldn't do ordinarily. ",
"I can't turn you into a rapist or a robber or anything like that. ",
"Do you understand?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, get on with it.\"",
"\n\nMurdock moved away then, checked with Lam, and they angled to the right this time to keep on their southern route.",
"\n\nWhen he got back, Doc waited for him.",
"\n\n\"Damn that was cool. ",
"Magic went under in about a minute. ",
"Ken said he was a good subject. ",
"For the past five hundred yards, he hasn't groaned once or said anything about pain. ",
"He's even walking better. ",
"No foot drag, which might have been psychological. ",
"He's good for a fast three miles an hour, so we can step it up if you want to.\"",
"\n\nThey did.",
"\n\nTwice before midnight they heard planes flying over. ",
"Some were obviously prop-powered and small. ",
"Two or three times they heard jets streaking overhead.",
"\n\n\"Tomorrow is not going to be an easy twelve hours of daylight,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nThey took a break at 0100. ",
"Magic was talking and joking with the guys around him. ",
"Doc checked the leg wound and found no new bleeding.",
"\n\n\"Magic, how you doing?\" ",
"Murdock asked, squatting down beside where the big black man sat.",
"\n\n\"Fucking good, L-T. How the hell you doing?\"",
"\n\n\"I'm gonna make it, Magic. ",
"Got to get us wet so we can talk turkey with that fucking submarine.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, in the wet this damn leg won't bother me none. ",
"It don't want to work right. ",
"Doc says I got shot.\"",
"\n\n\"Just a scratch. ",
"Don't worry about it.\"",
"\n\nTo one side, Murdock asked Ken Ching how long the trance would last.",
"\n\n\"I can reinforce it every three hours. ",
"He'll be good until daylight. ",
"Then we'll let him pass into a normal sleep.\"",
"\n\nThey ate MRE's there and left twenty minutes later. ",
"The next two hours went according to plan. ",
"Magic kept up, Miguel Fernandez was now helping him, with his arm over Miguel's shoulder. ",
"They made their six miles and Murdock pulled them up at the side of a high mountain.",
"\n\nAhead of them a gentle valley opened up that went too far to the east, but they decided they would take it. ",
"Just before their short break was over, Lam came back with news.",
"\n\n\"I was out front a ways, and I heard some choppers.\" ",
"He pointed down the valley. \"",
"Seem to be coming from that direction.\"",
"\n\nThey all looked that way then, and a half mile in front of them they heard large helicopters coming in. ",
"Then the choppers snapped on landing lights, making six round islands of light in the wilderness of night.",
"\n\n\"Goddamnit to hell,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Lam, get as close as you can and see how many men get off each bird.\"",
"\n\nLam left at a sprint, settled down to a trot, and made a quarter of a mile in fast time. ",
"He walked forward carefully. ",
"At a hundred yards he went flat on the ground. ",
"The last chopper had landed and disgorged its troops.",
"\n\nLam counted twenty-five combat-ready troopers getting off each chopper. ",
"Then the birds lifted off, turned off their landing lights, and flew back to the south.",
"\n\nMurdock was surprised by the number of troops on each bird. \"",
"That's a hundred and fifty men out there looking for us.\" ",
"He shook his head. \"",
"We were making good time. ",
"DeWitt and Jaybird, let's talk.\"",
"\n\nThey worked it over for five minutes and all agreed. ",
"What was open was the direction. ",
"Murdock decided that.",
"\n\n\"Okay, platoon, listen up. ",
"We're blocked down front. ",
"Lam said they were sending out security and what looked like patrols. ",
"We can only go around them. ",
"We head due east for Pakistan. ",
"We're still about ten to twelve miles from it. ",
"We'll go east for two miles, then swing south again and maintain that heading. ",
"Any questions?\"",
"\n\n\"Only a hundred and a half?\" ",
"Gonzalez called out. \"",
"Hell, L-T, let's take them. ",
"Them ain't bad odds for SEALs.\"",
"\n\nThere were some quiet voices of agreement.",
"\n\n\"Now I know that Gonzalez has his insurance paid up,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Okay Lam, lead us out due east.\"",
"\n\nKat came up beside Murdock. ",
"She had been step for step with the SEALs all the way.",
"\n\n\"Maybe we could go all the way into Pakistan. ",
"We've had better relations with them than with Iran.\"",
"\n\n\"Their border guards wouldn't ask any questions, Kat. ",
"They would shoot us down to get our weapons. ",
"No chance we're going across the border. ",
"We'll skirt it if we have to, but we'll still be eight to ten miles away. ",
"We just jog around this bunch and hope for a better tomorrow.\"",
"\n\nThe landscape changed as they headed east. ",
"Here and there they found shrubs and a few trees. ",
"In the gullies now were some brush and stunted trees. ",
"Murdock hoped they would find some kind of cover like this when daylight came. ",
"They could do the hide hole again, but they had been lucky last time. ",
"He didn't believe in straining the fates any more than he had to.",
"\n\nMagic Brown was walking better now, and Doc couldn't explain it. ",
"He asked Chin.",
"\n\n\"The physical pain is still there. ",
"The injury is there. ",
"But the more he forgets about it, and subjugates it, the better he feels, therefore the better he can walk. ",
"Once the trance is gone, the pain will come back like gangbusters. ",
"Happened to me the time I had a root canal with hypnosis. ",
"The dentist was scared as hell. ",
"I told him if I came out of it and started screaming, he could shoot me with a bucket of painkiller.\"",
"\n\nDock hesitated. \"",
"Chin, with him hypnotized that way, could I go in and hunt for that damned slug?\"",
"\n\n\"Sure, he won't feel a thing. ",
"Do you have the right kind of instruments?\"",
"\n\n\"Hell no. ",
"I've got one probe, a pair of forceps, and a K-bar. ",
"About all I have I can use.\"",
"\n\n\"Might do more damage than leaving it alone.\"",
"\n\n\"If it's in there another twenty-four hours, he could lose the leg.\"",
"\n\n\"Hell, give it a try. ",
"I'd check with the L-T, though, first. ",
"You'll need light or daylight. ",
"Either one will be risky for the whole platoon.\"",
"\n\nDoc talked with Murdock as they hiked along the hills. ",
"They were doing more up and down now since the former rivers and any runoff had been going south the way they wanted to go.",
"\n\nDoc explained it to Murdock.",
"\n\n\"We'll wait and see about the light. ",
"If we find some cover, it might work. ",
"If not, we could start a fire or something in a protected spot and line up everyone around it. ",
"Let's see closer to morning.\"",
"\n\nThey had made good time the first two miles east, then Lam turned them south again, and they caught a fine valley that made the night march easier.",
"\n\nThere were fewer of the shrubs and small trees here, but as they came closer to the coast, Murdock figured there should be more rain, and perhaps more vegetation. ",
"They had come another four miles south when Murdock realized it was stopping time. ",
"Lam came back with a report that he might have a canyon with some cover. ",
"They hiked another ten minutes and just before dawn found it. ",
"The brush and trees were no more than three feet tall, but they covered a small canyon ten yards wide and fifty long, as it angled up toward a really large mountain. ",
"There must have been some natural runoff here, and any rains would bring down a torrent of fresh water from the catch basin higher up.",
"\n\nMurdock grinned—some good luck at last. ",
"The men dug into the tangle of brush and trees and within ten minutes they all had vanished. ",
"Murdock pushed in past Kat and found a place he could stretch out. ",
"He hit the Motorola.",
"\n\n\"I hope all of you are happy with your five-star accommodations. ",
"Remember, we're short on water. ",
"Ken, see that Magic gets moved into his sleep mode. ",
"I have the first watch. ",
"The rest of you can eat an MRE or sack out, whichever you want.",
"\n\n\"Doc, let's think about that job you might do. ",
"It looks possible. ",
"You could fix up your area for it later this morning when we check out our actual cover in the daylight.\"",
"\n\nLam came on the net. \"",
"L-T, I've been seeing some lightning to the north. ",
"I don't know how far. ",
"That could mean a storm is coming, which would mean rain.\"",
"\n\n\"So, it will cool us off and we can catch some for our canteens,\" Fernandez said.",
"\n\n\"Also it could trigger a flash flood. ",
"Know what a wall of water ten feet high and racing along at sixty miles an hour can do to a bunch of campers like us?\"",
"\n\nMurdock swore again. \"",
"And we're right in the middle of a flood channel for such a torrent if it rains hard in this area. ",
"Whoever is on watch, keep an eye on the lightning. ",
"That means a spot outside the brush where you're concealed but can see to the north. ",
"This might not be the best spot to hide out after all. ",
"But we'll stay here until the storm hits to the north or bypasses us. ",
"Keep a sharp watch to the north.\"",
"\n_29_\n\n# Friday, November 4\n\n## 0627 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\nMurdock decided he'd have to get out of the brush so he could see the north and still have some kind of concealment. ",
"He passed Kat as he crawled to the side.",
"\n\n\"Is it really going to rain?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\nHe noted a touch of weariness in her voice.",
"\n\n\"Could. ",
"Could be trouble. ",
"How you holding up?\"",
"\n\n\"We haven't even done a marathon distance yet. ",
"I'm fine. ",
"Glad Magic is doing better.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, he's the controlling factor on this one. ",
"I'll be back in a couple of hours. ",
"Get some sleep.\"",
"\n\nShe picked up an MRE. \"",
"I think I need some food more than the sleep.\"",
"\n\nHe continued out of the brush to the side, and found a spot where he could see north past a small hill. ",
"He settled in below a shrub with lots of gray leaves, and checked north again. ",
"A sudden darting lightning bolt daggered down and out of sight behind the hill.",
"\n\nHe didn't know enough about the weather patterns in southern Iran to know if the lightning was dry or if it heralded rain. ",
"He did know that rain in the desert areas like this one usually came in torrents, suddenly, and in great volume. ",
"He remembered eleven hikers in the U.S. desert southwest who were drowned in a sudden flash flood that originated from a rain ten miles away.",
"\n\nIt was almost daylight.",
"\n\nMurdock winced when he heard the sound of an aircraft. ",
"A jet, probably a fighter, a MiG. It slammed over to the south behind some hills so he never saw it. ",
"That meant it was low to the ground. ",
"How could you use a Mach one fighter to do a search? ",
"It meant that the military was throwing everything they owned into the hunt, whether it would produce results or not.",
"\n\nSomething moved to his left. ",
"His peripheral vision barely caught it. ",
"He turned slowly in that direction, and watched. ",
"It was against the hill. ",
"The movement came again, and he relaxed. ",
"The creature was small and slow, cold-blooded, some kind of a lizard, not more than a foot long. ",
"It lifted its head gradually and stared toward him. ",
"Did lizards have good eyesight? ",
"He figured they didn't. ",
"The creature was ten feet away. ",
"Its tongue darted out, evidently testing the air for scents. ",
"It turned, and waddled away into some brush, evidently satisfied that the strange creature was not a food source or held any danger.",
"\n\nMurdock almost dozed. ",
"The temperature rose as the light increased. ",
"They would be in the shade until about noon. ",
"A big help. ",
"He watched the small area behind them that he could see. ",
"There were slices of two slopes, and a gully no wider than the one they were in. ",
"He was nearly blind from a good observation point of view, but the concealment was worth ten times that drawback.",
"\n\nHe looked over the brushy ravine. ",
"Nothing showed that seventeen fighters were hidden there.",
"\n\nMurdock hit the mike. \"",
"Doc, come and see me. ",
"I'm at the edge of the brush.\"",
"\n\nDoc Ellsworth squirmed out of some overhanging shrubs twenty feet below Murdock, walked up, and sat beside him.",
"\n\n\"Magic?\"",
"\n\n\"Ken will help me. ",
"He decided to let Magic sleep for two hours to gain some strength. ",
"Then he'll hypnotize him again, and I'll go in and try to dig out the lead.\"",
"\n\n\"I want to be there.\"",
"\n\n\"Right, keep you up to date.\"",
"\n\nDoc went back to his spot, and Murdock worked on the MRE he dug out of his pack. ",
"The main course was macaroni and cheese. ",
"Who worked out these menus anyway? ",
"He ate what he could of it, buried the rest, and dug out the mugger.",
"\n\nHe set up the antenna and took a shot at the four positioning satellites. ",
"When the figures showed up on the readout screen, he copied them down on the edge of the map, then plotted them.",
"\n\nThey were now well east of where they had been and, from the distance on the map, still twenty-six miles from the coast. ",
"Too damn far. ",
"How would Magic react after the cutting today? ",
"One lucky Iranian bullet could stop his whole platoon dead in the water.",
"\n\nNothing else happened until his two hours were up. ",
"Murdock called Ron Holt to take the next watch. ",
"He gave an acknowledgement on the Motorola, and Murdock headed back for his spot inside the brush.",
"\n\nKat seemed to be sleeping.",
"\n\nHe eased down, making as little noise as possible.",
"\n\n\"You do this for a living,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"Hell no, I do it for the amazing high it boots me to. ",
"I'm a thrill junkie, didn't you know? ",
"There's no war on, so what's a fighting man to do? ",
"I'm too chicken to start my own war.\"",
"\n\nKat laughed. \"",
"Yeah, you say.\" ",
"She watched him in the full daylight now that filtered into the shaded areas under the thin canopy. \"",
"What are you going to do when you grow up?\" ",
"she asked.",
"\n\n\"I don't know, Kat. ",
"I might learn how to tear apart weapons of mass destruction just for the thrill of it. ",
"Why do you risk life and limb just to rip apart nukes?\"",
"\n\n\"I get this amazing high, like a thousand sexual climaxes all at once. ",
"I'm a thrill junkie.\"",
"\n\nThey both chuckled.",
"\n\n\"A thousand climaxes?\" ",
"Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"It was a figure of speech.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, good, otherwise I figure you must have exploded.\"",
"\n\n\"You do have a good imagination, I like that.\"",
"\n\n\"Careful, Dr. Garnet, we still could be expendable.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, Murdock, but what a way to go. ",
"I figured I was doing mankind a favor by deactivating some nukes. ",
"But over here we just saved what I figure is at least a million lives. ",
"Iran would have dropped a bomb on some mid-sized Arab city, I'm sure. ",
"A million Arabs we saved. ",
"Now they're trying to kill us.\"",
"\n\n\"Fortunes of war, Kat. ",
"And don't doubt it, this is a war. ",
"You ready for a nap? ",
"I sure am.\"",
"\n\nKat grinned. \"",
"Does this mean I'm sleeping with you?\"",
"\n\nMurdock laughed. \"",
"More like sleeping near me. ",
"Remember I still outrank you by date of commission.\"",
"\n\n\"Good night, David.\"",
"\n\n\"Good night, Chet, and you're too young to remember them,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"My dad's first name is Chet. ",
"He told me about them.\"",
"\n\nMurdock thought he'd just got to sleep when his Motorola clicked three times. ",
"That would be Doc. ",
"He eased away from the sleeping Kat and worked out of the brush, and down where Doc had emerged earlier. ",
"He saw Joe Douglas on watch, and crawled in where he saw Doc and Ken Ching.",
"\n\n\"Hey, L-T. Ken's got Magic under again. ",
"I figure I'll use a tourniquet around his thigh above the wound to try to slow bleeding. ",
"I've got two pocket knives and my K-bar. ",
"First I'll use the wire probe from my kit, and see if I can find the damn bullet.\"",
"\n\nChin held a three-inch hand mirror. ",
"He caught a beam of sunlight and bounced it directly on the wound. ",
"Doc took a six-inch-long piece of stiff spring steel wire, and gently probed it into the wound. ",
"It began bleeding.",
"\n\nHe pushed the wire in farther and farther.",
"\n\n\"Damn, four inches, and I don't feel a thing.\" ",
"He stopped. \"",
"There. ",
"I can feel it. ",
"Christ, I found the bullet. ",
"It's four inches in there.\" ",
"Doc wiped sweat off his forehead. ",
"He took the long-handled surgical pliers, which were slender and had an inch-long grasping head on them. ",
"He pressed the head of the tool into the wound. ",
"It bled more.",
"\n\nChing soaked up the blood with a white T-shirt.",
"\n\nDoc sweated.",
"\n\nHe pushed the forceps in deeper.",
"\n\nBlood spurted. ",
"Ching covered it.",
"\n\n\"Another damn inch. ",
"Am I killing him? ",
"Damn, I've never dug into a body this way before.\"",
"\n\n\"Do it, Doc, or he loses the leg,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nDoc nodded, and eased the forceps in deeper, then deeper again.",
"\n\n\"Touched it,\" he said, grinning. \"",
"Now if I can just get a grip on it.\" ",
"He opened the forceps head and probed more. ",
"When he tried to close the pliers, the head slipped off the bullet.",
"\n\n\"Damn, missed it. ",
"Try again.\"",
"\n\nChing used a second T-shirt to soak up the blood that kept running out of Magic's thigh.",
"\n\nMagic stirred in his hypnotic slumber, then relaxed.",
"\n\nDoc positioned the forceps again, opened them, and pressed forward more. ",
"When he closed them this time, he laughed softly.",
"\n\n\"Got you, sucker!\" ",
"He began withdrawing the instrument slowly, gripping it so hard his fingers turned white.",
"\n\nHe had it halfway out, when a new spout of blood came out beside the forceps.",
"\n\nChing covered it and nodded.",
"\n\nDoc pulled again, and then with a steady pressure brought the tool out of Magic's thigh, and the inch-long lead slug with it. ",
"He dropped both on the ground, put two 4-by-4 gauze pads over the wound, and pressed hard on them with his hand.",
"\n\nChing slapped him on the back, then mopped Doc's forehead where the sweat ran into his eyes.",
"\n\n\"Did it, you ersatz sawbones, you fucking did it.\" ",
"Ching slapped Doc again, and helped wipe up the blood.",
"\n\n\"Good work, Doc,\" Murdock said. \"",
"We all owe you a big one. ",
"How about a case of your favorite beer?\"",
"\n\n\"I'll take it the first day we get back to the Grinder,\" Doc said. ",
"They cleaned up the rest of the blood. ",
"Doc wiped the wound clean and applied antiseptic around it, then the last of the antibiotic salve he had, and then covered the wound with two more 4-by-4 pads before he wrapped it securely with a heavy bandage.",
"\n\n\"Now we let him go from the hypnotic state into a normal sleep, right?\" ",
"Doc asked.",
"\n\nKen nodded. \"",
"When he wakes up, he's gonna be yelling. ",
"Have your morphine shots ready. ",
"He should have an MRE, and then we'll put him back under. ",
"No reason he has to endure the pain. ",
"The hypnotic state is not harmful to him in any way. ",
"Be sure to tell him the damn slug is out of his leg. ",
"That will help him to get through the pain while he's eating the MRE.\"",
"\n\nMurdock shook hands with both Doc and Ching, then went back to talk to the lookout. ",
"He'd seen lightning three times, all to the north.",
"\n\nWhile the two looked to the north, they heard a plane coming.",
"\n\n\"Bigger than a spotter,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\nThen they saw it over the hills in front of them. ",
"It leveled out at about three thousand feet, and to Murdock's surprise, twelve men tumbled out of the plane, and chutes opened.",
"\n\n\"Now, this we didn't need,\" Murdock said. ",
"The men were low enough that they drifted little before dropping into a small valley just ahead.",
"\n\n\"Twelve men,\" Douglas said. \"",
"We can take them out easily.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, if they don't know we're here. ",
"They didn't see us, that's for sure. ",
"Maybe they're just setting up a blocking position.\" ",
"He stared at the area directly ahead. ",
"This gully was one of several that opened into the small valley. ",
"It was no more than fifty feet across, and had sharp hills on both sides. ",
"A kind of elongated gorge.",
"\n\nFrom the north came more stabs of lightning, and this time they could hear the rumble of thunder.",
"\n\nMurdock hit the mike. \"",
"Everyone, we've just had twelve paratroopers land maybe a mile in front of us in that valley. ",
"We've got to stay awake and alert. ",
"Be ready to move at a moment's notice. ",
"Let's have a squad check. ",
"Ed.\" ",
"He waited while the Second Squad checked in. ",
"Then he listened as his seven men, and Kat, let him know they were awake.",
"\n\n\"Listen up. ",
"More lightning, and lots of thunder to the north. ",
"We figure it's on this side of the mountain group that this gully fronts. ",
"Which means that most of these arroyos around here could be hip-deep in water in a half hour. ",
"The sides of our own little canyon here are not too steep to climb. ",
"Pick out a route, and a spot at least twenty feet above the floor here, where you are going to dash to when you get the word.",
"\n\n\"Lam, I want you to move up the gorge here as far as you can and still maintain radio contact. ",
"Maybe five hundred yards. ",
"Watch for any flash floods coming our way. ",
"If the water is traveling even twenty miles an hour, it will move five hundred yards in a rush. ",
"If it comes, you be high on the ridge, and give us all the warning you can.\"",
"\n\nHe let the words soak in for a minute, then continued.",
"\n\n\"Douglas. ",
"I want you to go high on this ridge to our right, until you can see where those twelve Iranians landed, and tell me what they're doing. ",
"If it's a blocking force, they might be setting up a camp. ",
"We don't have to tell them that the rains are here, and that they just might be swimming before long. ",
"All of these gorges empty into that little valley, and it could develop a wall of water twenty feet high in a matter of minutes. ",
"Douglas, go now.\"",
"\n\nBy the time he was through talking, he could hear the platoon members moving around. ",
"He ducked in where he had been. ",
"Kat was saddled up and ready to move.",
"\n\n\"I don't want to swim in this brush,\" she said.",
"\n\n\"Not sure we'd have to. ",
"Want to be ready.\"",
"\n\nThe Motorola spoke.",
"\n\n\"L-T, I'm about a hundred yards along the gully and working up to the side. ",
"It just keeps going. ",
"Around this little curve I can see it stretch up here for a mile, with more drainage coming into it. ",
"If we get a cloudburst, it'll pour down on you like the Niagara waterfall. ",
"I'd say fifty feet off the bottom to be safe. ",
"Don't spot any rain yet. ",
"Lots more thunder up here and the sky is almost black to the north. ",
"I'd say it's moving this way.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks, Lam. ",
"We read you.\"",
"\n\nHe got the rest of his gear together, fitted the pack on his back, and picked up his weapon. ",
"Kat was ready to go.",
"\n\n\"So, we moving yet?\"",
"\n\n\"Not until we get some idea it's gonna be wet here,\" he said.",
"\n\n\"Douglas,\" he said into the mike. \"",
"You spot that dirty dozen yet?\"",
"\n\n\"Not yet. ",
"Another fifty feet to the top. ",
"Does look nasty to the north. ",
"I'd say wet is for sure.\"",
"\n\n\"Roger.\"",
"\n\n\"Doc, how is Magic doing?\"",
"\n\n\"We woke him and gave him two shots, and he's lucid but hurting. ",
"He polished off an MRE, and half of mine. ",
"Ching has him back in hypnosis in case we have to move quickly. ",
"We're ready. ",
"Rest of the guys around here are, too.\"",
"\n\nThey sat there waiting. ",
"Murdock checked his watch. ",
"It was only a little after 1000. ",
"Why did the daytime have to go so damned slow?",
"\n\n\"L-T, might have something,\" the Motorola said.",
"\n\n\"Go, Douglas.\"",
"\n\n\"Those twelve guys are camped out in the middle of that valley. ",
"Looks more like a walled drainage ditch. ",
"Damn cut is twenty feet on each side. ",
"They've set up two tents, have a fire going. ",
"Can't tell about weapons, but they sure don't look like they expect any trouble. ",
"No lookouts I can tell. ",
"Fat and happy.\"",
"\n\n\"Good, keep watch on them, and let us know of any change. ",
"How far from us are they?\"",
"\n\n\"My guess, about a mile. ",
"Our gorge bends around a forty-five-degree turn. ",
"They are maybe two hundred yards below, where it empties into the valley.\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"If any of them move this way, bellow at us.\"",
"\n\n\"That's a Roger, sir. ",
"I've got all my gear. ",
"If you bug out, I'll catch you.\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked at Kat.",
"\n\n\"What's a Ph.",
"D in physics doing out in a rathole like this with sudden death hanging all around you?\"",
"\n\n\"I'm a thrill junkie, remember? ",
"Like somebody else I know.\"",
"\n\nThey both grinned.",
"\n\n\"Murdock, I've got some news.\"",
"\n\n\"Lam, go.\"",
"\n\n\"It's raining out there north where I can see. ",
"Maybe ten miles up to the tops of the mountains. ",
"I'd guess it's raining damn hard. ",
"I can't see any runoff yet, but if it comes, I should see it a long time before it gets here. ",
"My guess is you should move now. ",
"Upslope at least seventy-five feet from the bottom of that brush. ",
"No rush, but now is the best time. ",
"I've got two hundred feet of elevation here off the bottom.\"",
"\n\n\"Roger that, Lam. ",
"Hold your spot, and keep sending us intel.\"",
"\n\nHe looked at Kat. \"",
"Now is the time.\" ",
"They pushed through the brush to the side of the gully.",
"\n\n\"Okay, platoon, you heard Lam. ",
"Let's all move to the right-hand side of the place, looking uphill. ",
"That's easiest to climb. ",
"We get up there a hundred feet from the brush if we can. ",
"Now is the time.\"",
"\n\nIt took them ten minutes to move up on the slope where they wanted to be. ",
"There was no brush or growth of any kind up there. ",
"They sat beside their gear with cammo cloths spread over them the best they could.",
"\n\nA light wind whipped up.",
"\n\n\"Troops in the valley still on a picnic,\" Douglas said.",
"\n\n\"Damn, I can smell something cooking down there. ",
"I must be downwind from them. ",
"Did I hear the water is coming?\"",
"\n\n\"Not yet, but Lam said it's raining on the mountain. ",
"He's watching for a flash flood.\"",
"\n\nThey waited.",
"\n\n\"At least they don't have any more air up looking for us,\" Kat said. \"",
"I wonder how many groups of twelve they have out in blocking positions?\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"You're starting to sound like a military ma—person.\" ",
"He shook his head. \"",
"No way to tell, but I'd guess that they have twenty, twenty-five such groups out, saturating the southern route.\"",
"\n\n\"How can we get around all of them?\"",
"\n\n\"We take them one at a time.\" ",
"He closed his eyes a little. \"",
"If you're a religious person, it might not hurt to do a little praying.\"",
"\n\nShe looked at him, her face serious. \"",
"Murdock, we are going to get out of this. ",
"I have total and complete trust in your ability, and your special will to live.\"",
"\n\n\"Great. ",
"You don't worry about turning up the pressure on me, do you?\"",
"\n\nShe had started to reply, when the radio chattered in both their ears.",
"\n\n\"This is it, L-T. I can see a wave of water heading our way. ",
"Must be half a mile away, and roaring downhill like a steam engine with no brakes. ",
"No telling how long it'll take to get here. ",
"Five minutes, maybe ten. ",
"Damn thing is washing away brush and a few trees that must grow up that high. ",
"Christ, look at that thing come!\"",
"\n_30_\n\n# Friday, November 4\n\n## 1146 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\nMurdock checked his men again. ",
"All were well up the slope, a hundred feet from the bottom\n\n\"Lam, keep talking to me. ",
"How close is the water? ",
"How fast is it moving? ",
"We're a hundred feet up, is that enough?\"",
"\n\n\"Damn, sir, I don't know. ",
"It's still a quarter of a mile from me. ",
"I'm moving up higher. ",
"I can see it now sweeping everything in front of it. ",
"A wall of water? ",
"Well, not really. ",
"It keeps tumbling over itself, almost like a breaking wave. ",
"But the whole thing must be twenty, maybe twenty-five, feet high. ",
"Like a giant breaker that never quite breaks, just keeps rolling forward.\"",
"\n\n\"How fast is it moving, Lam?\"",
"\n\n\"No idea. ",
"A good fast run, fifteen, twenty miles an hour, maybe more. ",
"Seems like it's picking up speed as it comes. ",
"Strange, though, I've seen floods and things float by. ",
"Not here. ",
"Just dirty, sandy water. ",
"Not even a stick or a tree or a bush. ",
"Water ripping at the dirt, roaring along.",
"\n\n\"Oh, God, it's almost here. ",
"There is a roar, like the ocean. ",
"Never heard anything like it. ",
"It's right in front of me. ",
"Hope to hell you're all high enough. ",
"It must reach up fifty feet on the canyon wall here.\"",
"\n\n\"You above it, Lam? ",
"You safe?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, unless I fall in. ",
"I've never seen a current quite like that.\"",
"\n\n\"Let us know when it comes around the corner you talked about,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"Any minute now, L-T. Now you should be able to see it.\"",
"\n\nMurdock and the rest of the platoon looked up the canyon, and weren't sure whether to believe their eyes. ",
"The water roared around the bend in the gully and headed right for them.",
"\n\nThe only thing Murdock could compare it with was pictures of a tidal wave he had seen. ",
"The water blasted forward, tearing at the walls of the canyon, tumbling, crashing over itself, sweeping small bushes and brush before it, then pounding them underwater until they could surface far to the rear.",
"\n\n\"L-T, it seems to be slowing down a bit up here,\" Lam reported. \"",
"Looks like a big, muddy river with a killer of a current.\"",
"\n\n\"We've got it here now, Lam. ",
"We're all up out of the way. ",
"The crest is past us now, a hundred yards downstream. ",
"Douglas, are those Iranians still having lunch out there?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah. ",
"Fat and happy. ",
"I'd figure they are about three minutes from taking a swim.\"",
"\n\nMurdock watched the water race past them, and tear down the way until it rounded the bend below and slammed into the small valley with a channel deeply cut from other flash floods.",
"\n\nDouglas came on the Motorola again. \"",
"Good god, look at that. ",
"I've never seen so much water in a dry river. ",
"Must be fifteen feet tall, smashing, crashing, right down the channel. ",
"It's within two hundred yards of the Iranian camp.",
"\n\n\"Now somebody spots it and yells. ",
"The men start racing for the sides of the channel, but the sides are so steep. ",
"Some almost make it, then the soft dirt crumbles and they fall to the bottom.",
"\n\n\"Oh, damn. ",
"The water hit the camp. ",
"Wiped out everything. ",
"Men are washing downstream, going under as the water in front rolls and tumbles. ",
"One guy got to the top of the dirt side, but the water undercut the piece of land he was on and he dropped in the maelstrom.",
"\n\n\"They're all gone. ",
"All twelve of them. ",
"Nobody can swim in that kind of turbulence, not even with a rebreather.\"",
"\n\nLam came back on the radio. \"",
"Water is dropping rapidly now, L-T. I'd say it will be all past here in another five minutes. ",
"One big wall of water and no backup.\"",
"\n\nThe net went silent for a moment. ",
"Murdock watched the raging water storm past them. ",
"In a few seconds he could tell the crest had passed, and backwater, with less force and speed, came rolling down the steep incline.",
"\n\n\"Lam, work your way back down here. ",
"We're going to have to stick to the high ground for a while.\"",
"\n\n\"Roger that, L-T. I'm moving.\"",
"\n\n\"Douglas, see any survivors over there?\"",
"\n\n\"Not a one, Skipper. ",
"I'd say the bodies are a half mile downstream by this time, maybe farther.\"",
"\n\n\"Hold your position. ",
"We need to move that way. ",
"Platoon, any reason we can't move out?\"",
"\n\n\"Magic can walk. ",
"He's feeling no pain, thanks to Ching. ",
"Not sure how mobile he'll be. ",
"Figure that out when we hit the flatter ground. ",
"I'd guess another three miles per hour.\"",
"\n\n\"We need to find a new hide hole,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Still broad daylight and our old quarters aren't going to dry out for a couple of days. ",
"Douglas, you see anything from up there that might give us some cover? ",
"We're naked over here.\"",
"\n\n\"Looking south, L-T. Could be another ravine leading out of the valley that is still dry. ",
"Can't tell for sure, but the color seems to change inside it. ",
"Over maybe two miles.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll try for it.\"",
"\n\nFive minutes later, Lam walked up, and they moved out over the ridge, picked up Douglas, and Lam headed them for the valley Douglas pointed out. ",
"They worked down across a slope studded with rocks and a few bushes, then hit the side of the valley below, but kept to the far fringes of it, out of the path where the flash flood had cut the channel another two feet deeper.",
"\n\nAlmost an hour from the top of the ridge, they came to the valley they had figured might have some plant growth for cover. ",
"It did, some scrub plants and brush about like the other one. ",
"This place was not as thick and the concealment wouldn't be perfect, but Murdock decided it would work.",
"\n\n\"Hell of a lot better than being caught out in the open when one of their planes flies over,\" he said.",
"\n\nDoc came up and talked to Murdock.",
"\n\n\"Magic can still walk without dragging that left foot, but he's moving slower than he was. ",
"Something is sapping his strength. ",
"We'll feed him twice as much as everyone else. ",
"Might be some infection inside that leg. ",
"If I had a few dozen kinds of antibiotics, I could kill the infection, but don't have any. ",
"It's too tricky. ",
"Tonight I'd say we'll be doing good if we can make two and a half miles an hour.\"",
"\n\n\"Thanks, Doc. ",
"Anybody else hurting?\"",
"\n\n\"Not that I've heard of. ",
"Kat is doing great. ",
"She's probably in better physical shape than any of us for stamina. ",
"Damn, just thinking about my doing a triathlon gives me the hives.\"",
"\n\nMurdock went back on the Motorola. \"",
"If you haven't eaten your MRE, do it now. ",
"I've got first watch. ",
"Dig yourself a nice little nest in the leaves and brambles, and watch out for snakes. ",
"I'm kidding. ",
"Too damn hot out here even for snakes. ",
"Watch is for two hours. ",
"Washington, you're next. ",
"Pick your own victim to follow you.\"",
"\n\nThey settled down in the brush then. ",
"Kat waited until Murdock found his spot, then she moved in close to him.",
"\n\n\"Hope you don't mind if I'm your roommate,\" she said.",
"\n\n\"Hey, I'm pleased. ",
"You're the prettiest SEAL I've ever seen.\"",
"\n\n\"Not much of a compliment, Skipper.\"",
"\n\nThey both grinned.",
"\n\nWhen they got their resting areas worked out, Murdock waved. \"",
"I'm on watch. ",
"Be back in two.\"",
"\n\nHe found a place at the side of the ravine where he could have a fair view of their backtrail. ",
"The few clouds that had been moving toward them seemed to stall, then some giant, billowing, mushroom clouds built up, thunderheads, but he heard no more thunder. ",
"The storm had been stalled, prob-ably by a high-pressure line along here somewhere.",
"\n\nHe thought of using the mugger again, but what good would it do? ",
"He called up Ron Holt to bring the radio. ",
"They set it up on a flat place and picked up the SATCOM satellite in orbit 22,300 miles overhead. ",
"Murdock thought about his message. ",
"Then he typed it in on the keyboard.",
"\n\n\"Stroh. ",
"Still 20 miles from wet. ",
"More troops moving in. ",
"What about alternate pickup by air? ",
"Try highest authority. ",
"May be a go/no-go option for retrieval. ",
"The Expendables.\"",
"\n\nHe read it over again. ",
"Should he leave the tag line? ",
"He decided to. ",
"It would convey the situation. ",
"He let Holt encrypt it, then flash it out in a burst of transmission less than a half a second long.",
"\n\n\"Thanks, Holt. ",
"Get some sleep.\"",
"\n\nMurdock checked his watch. ",
"Nearly 1400. ",
"He had another hour of duty. ",
"He wasn't hungry. ",
"He tapped his canteen. ",
"He had emptied the first one, and discarded it. ",
"Now his second was almost halfway down. ",
"They could use some water.",
"\n\nA half hour later he heard a plane, but it came nowhere near them, it was far to the south. ",
"So they must be looking down there or at least dropping in blocking units. ",
"He wondered why they hadn't run into another one. ",
"Maybe tonight.",
"\n\nWater. ",
"The idea crossed his mind. ",
"Fresh troops from the air in a blocking position would have plenty of Iranian water. ",
"Worth a try. ",
"Maybe tonight.",
"\n\nAt 1500 all was quiet. ",
"He called Washington softly. ",
"The black man came out of the brush, saw Murdock, and moved up.",
"\n\n\"Good observation spot, L-T. All quiet?\"",
"\n\n\"So far. ",
"It should be dark in two hours. ",
"Roust the camp at that time and we'll figure out what to do.\"",
"\n\n\"Aye, aye, sir.\"",
"\n\nMurdock headed back for his nest. ",
"Kat roused and sat up when he arrived.",
"\n\n\"Quiet?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, makes me wonder where they are. ",
"Why don't they have choppers out here scouring the place?\"",
"\n\n\"It's a twenty-square-mile puzzle for them. ",
"Where do they start? ",
"They know we were at point A with those Claymore mines, but what direction did we take after that? ",
"My guess is the military has limited resources on-site yet. ",
"They do what they can. ",
"Much too limited for a full-scale search and destroy.\"",
"\n\n\"You sound like one of my Annapolis professors.\"",
"\n\n\"Just a trace of my nerves. ",
"I do have them, you know.\"",
"\n\n\"Hadn't occurred to me.\"",
"\n\n\"L-T, we've got trouble.\"",
"\n\nIt was Washington. \"",
"Like what, Washington?\"",
"\n\n\"I'd say about fifteen troops, coming up our trail from the north. ",
"They're maybe half a mile out. ",
"Have one scout out front following our trail, rest behind dispersed.\"",
"\n\n\"Platoon, it's work time,\" Murdock said sharply on the radio. \"",
"Everyone move to the bottom side of the brush, and get yourself a firing position. ",
"Break off some growth if you need to. ",
"I want Ronson on the machine gun, not the fifty. ",
"How many forty-millimeter rounds we have? ",
"First Squad, sound off.\"",
"\n\nLampedusa had four rounds. ",
"Second Squad had three Colts with four rounds each.",
"\n\n\"Find a spot and be ready when they reach two hundred yards. ",
"Fire on my first shot, two forty mike-mikes, then the Colt. ",
"The rest of you stand by. ",
"We'll let them get as close as we can. ",
"I want that scout close enough so we can smell his breath to suck the others in. ",
"I'll take the scout, the rest of you the others. ",
"Move.\"",
"\n\nKat held her MP-5 and began to work through the brush down the hill. ",
"Murdock went behind her. ",
"The SEALs lay close together across the twenty-yard mouth of the gully where the last good concealment was.",
"\n\nMurdock found a spot, and broke off three small branches to give him a field of fire. \"",
"Silencers off,\" he said.",
"\n\nThen they waited.",
"\n\nMurdock saw the scout. ",
"He moved ahead, knelt, and examined the ground now and then, and moved on forward. ",
"He was about seventy-five yards ahead of the main body. ",
"Murdock counted sixteen men in the main force, plus one. ",
"Seventeen to seventeen.",
"\n\nThey waited some more. ",
"Murdock looked over to where Kat had bellied down, resting her submachine gun on a low branch. ",
"Three magazines were laid out beside her. ",
"She looked at him and he saw one eye twitch. ",
"He nodded. ",
"She tried to smile.",
"\n\nMurdock watched the scout then. ",
"The crouched figure was ten yards away from the brush where Murdock sighted in on him, and put three 9mm parabellum rounds from the MP-5 in the Iranian's chest. ",
"At once the sixteen other weapons fired. ",
"Murdock heard both machine guns, the crack of the 40mm grenade launchers and the spurt fire of the H&K G11 caseless automatic rifle. ",
"He shifted his aim at the troops below. ",
"Some of them hadn't even hit the dirt yet. ",
"He brought down one of them, then looked for the gun flashes. ",
"The SEALs fired for three minutes, and followed the trail of two men who lifted up and zigzagged back the way they had come.",
"\n\nMurdock hit the mike three times, and the SEALs ceased fire. ",
"He looked over at Kat. ",
"He hadn't thought about her when the shooting began. ",
"There was a line of sweat on her forehead. ",
"He caught a tear that had rolled down her cheek. ",
"He saw that two of her magazines were empty.",
"\n\n\"Jaybird, Fernandez, go and make sure.\"",
"\n\nFernandez borrowed an MP-5, and he and Jaybird ran down the slight rise to where the Iranians lay. ",
"They heard half a dozen shots, then six more.",
"\n\n\"Weapons, ammo, water?\" ",
"Jaybird asked on the radio.",
"\n\n\"Water,\" Murdock said. ",
"The two men scurried around the bodies, and then ran back to the brush. ",
"Each one carried six canteens.",
"\n\nJaybird found Murdock. \"",
"Could have been a scouting patrol. ",
"Not sure. ",
"They looked like seasoned men. ",
"No kids among them. ",
"My guess they weren't paratroopers.\"",
"\n\n\"Might be a larger force behind them?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"It's an assumption,\" Jaybird said. \"",
"Which means I'd just as soon get the hell out of Dodge City.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, distribute the canteens. ",
"Pour and fill. ",
"If they can drink it, we can drink it.\" ",
"He touched his radio mike.",
"\n\n\"Platoon, good shooting. ",
"We have any casualties?\" ",
"No-body said a word. \"",
"Good. ",
"Two or three got away, so now they'll know for damn sure where we are. ",
"It'll be dark in half an hour. ",
"We're going to hit the trail again, and head due east. ",
"Maybe we can mess up their logistics somehow.\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked over at Kat. ",
"Her head was down on her arms.",
"\n\n\"Hey Kat, you all right? ",
"You hit?\"",
"\n\nHe moved her way. ",
"She held up her hand. \"",
"No, I'm not wounded. ",
"I just killed at least one man, and it's going to take me a moment or two to get used to the idea. ",
"I've never even killed a mouse before in my whole life. ",
"Now, I... I shot that man.\"",
"\n\n\"Kat, he was shooting at you. ",
"The only reason he came out here was to kill us, to kill you.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, I know that.\" ",
"She looked at him then, and wiped away the tears. \"",
"Let me live with it for a few minutes.\" ",
"She sat up. \"",
"When do we load our empty magazines?\"",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. ",
"She was thinking ahead. ",
"She'd be all right.",
"\n\nThey left ten minutes later, just after 1600. ",
"They walked on rocky ledges whenever they could. ",
"They had the last man in the line brush out their tracks with a blanket from one of the dead Iranians. ",
"They moved in single file to make detection harder. ",
"It was still broad daylight and that bothered them all.",
"\n\nThe total plan was to vanish from the site of the killing field and leave no trail. ",
"If they could keep that up for two or three miles due east, they could buy a lot of time before the Iranians found them again.",
"\n\nMagic had fired his sniper rifle, the H&K PSG1. ",
"Ching was near him but wasn't certain if he had come out of the hypnotic spell or not. ",
"Magic had trained to fire the weapon. ",
"He would do so on command in or out of hypnotism. ",
"A quarter of a mile into the march, Magic bellowed in pain and called to Ching. ",
"Five minutes later as they marched, Ching had put Magic into his hypnotic trance again, and he swung along at a three-miles-an-hour pace.",
"\n\nIn the ten minutes of calm after the firefight, Doc had checked Magic's leg. ",
"It had bled a little but not much. ",
"Doc was amazed at the guts and stamina Magic was now showing.",
"\n\nAt 1730, Murdock called a halt. ",
"It was almost dark. ",
"He put their east trek at three miles. ",
"He talked with Lam.",
"\n\n\"Should throw them off the trail. ",
"Anyway they can't start to track us until daylight. ",
"We can be to hell and gone before then.\"",
"\n\n\"South again. ",
"We may hit the wet yet.\"",
"\n\n\"How far you guess we are from the gulf, L-T?\"",
"\n\n\"Seventeen, eighteen miles. ",
"But I've got a hunch when we come to within ten miles of it, we'll run into hundreds, maybe thousands, of troops. ",
"By now it's a matter of national pride that they nail us. ",
"We've just set back their plans for total control of this whole subcontinent by two or three years. ",
"They've got to find us, or maybe get thrown out of power.\"",
"\n\nMurdock called Ron Holt up. ",
"He had the SATCOM set up and turned on by the time Murdock had his message ready.",
"\n\n\"Stroh. ",
"Lull in action. ",
"Magic still critical. ",
"Need immediate response. ",
"What's with the extraction? ",
"Murdock.\"",
"\n\nThey sent the message and waited. ",
"Murdock figured he'd give Stroh a half hour to reply. ",
"To his surprise, he came back in less than ten minutes.",
"\n\nThe decoded message came over the small screen.",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"Top Dog considering. ",
"Iran has told the world.",
"\n\nThey blame everyone. ",
"Needed tools ready in Gulf. ",
"Would have to be a night action. ",
"Contact me in twelve hours. ",
"Stroh.\"",
"\n\n\"So?\" ",
"Kat asked.",
"\n\n\"The President is still considering lifting us out of here with a Navy chopper supported by Tomcat fighters. ",
"It would be at night.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, heavy. ",
"The U.S. invading a sovereign nation. ",
"Even at night. ",
"If one of the birds went down, there would be international shit hitting the fan, right?\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"So we keep moving. ",
"Let's saddle up, men. ",
"Remember, the only easy day was yesterday.\"",
"\n\nKat shot him a quick glance. \"",
"You guys actually say that.\"",
"\n\nMurdock waved, and they moved forward due south through the dark Iranian night. ",
"There was no valley here. ",
"They trailed over a slant of sandy desert mountain, and down the other side to a ravine. ",
"It headed south. ",
"They took it.",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later they heard a call from Lam. \"",
"Hold,\" came over the radios. ",
"Murdock hurried ahead to where Lam lay on the crest of a ridge.",
"\n\n\"Another blocking group. ",
"In a damn fine place. ",
"This is a kind of pass with high ridges we can't climb on both sides. ",
"We go through here or we backtrack about five miles.\"",
"\n\n\"Move up,\" Murdock said on the Motorola.",
"\n\nJaybird looked over the ridge at the small encampment of soldiers. \"",
"Probably parachute guys,\" he said. \"",
"I'd figure maybe twenty at the most. ",
"One big fire, and four cooking fires. ",
"They must have arrived late in the day.\"",
"\n\nThe ravine they were in was forty yards wide.",
"\n\n\"No question, we take them out,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Even if it gives away our position. ",
"Nothing else we can do.",
"\n\n\"Ed, take your squad down the left-hand side. ",
"Stop out about seventy-five yards. ",
"I'll bring First Squad in on the right at the same distance. ",
"We'll get a little cross fire that way. ",
"Sooner the better. ",
"Ed, give me two clicks when you're in position.\"",
"\n\nJaybird stayed with Magic Brown as they moved down the hundred yards along the gentle downslope toward the camp. ",
"Kat walked along beside Murdock. ",
"He touched her shoulder.",
"\n\n\"You all right?\" ",
"he whispered.",
"\n\nShe held up three full magazines and nodded.",
"\n\nBut Kat wasn't sure. ",
"She had fired blindly last time, aiming only the first time, and had seen the man she aimed at take three rounds and get smashed to the rear. ",
"Could she do it again? ",
"Could she aim at a human being and cause his death? ",
"She gripped the MP-5, hating it for a minute, but knowing this was why she did all of the training. ",
"What if she let an enemy man stay alive long enough to kill Murdock or Jaybird? ",
"She had to do it. ",
"She had to fire at the men down there. ",
"She had to.",
"\n\nWhat bothered her, as they moved up on the target, was if she could actually kill another human being... again.",
"\n_31_\n\n# Friday, November 4\n\n## 0820 hours \nNuclear bomb plant \nHills north of Chah Bahar, Iran\n\nGeneral Reza Ruhollah stared at the colonel who had commanded this facility until the heathens attacked it. ",
"General Ruhollah was in no mood to tolerate traitors.",
"\n\n\"Colonel, I relieved you of your command here. ",
"I re-stricted you to your quarters. ",
"What are you doing in my office?\"",
"\n\n\"I must protest, General Ruhollah. ",
"My men have been subjected to your illegal orders. ",
"My guard troops have been sent into the field without proper rations. ",
"You have ordered my subordinates to rebuild the assembly plant, but have given them no resources.\"",
"\n\n\"Colonel, I'm telling you one more time to keep your mouth shut. ",
"Not one more word.\"",
"\n\n\"I still must protest, General Ruhollah. ",
"My men have been slaughtered at the hands of a well-equipped military force. ",
"I ask that adequate protection be given...\" The Colonel stopped.",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah lifted a German-made machine pistol and fired six rounds into the Colonel's chest. ",
"He slammed backward, hit the wall, slid down, and died as he lay on the floor, his eyes still wide in total disbelief.",
"\n\nTwo aides rushed into the room.",
"\n\n\"Get this trash out of my office and clean up the mess. ",
"I have to call for more troops. ",
"Quickly now.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Ruhollah went back to his desk. ",
"He picked up the phone and was soon asking for more reinforcements from Shiraz and Bandar-e Bushehr.",
"\n\n\"You can have two thousand troops here within eight hours,\" he stormed on the phone. \"",
"I don't need authorization from Tehran. ",
"I'm ordering you to send those troops to Chah Bahar this morning, and have them here before dark. ",
"Get them moving, combat-ready, with three days of ammunition and rations. ",
"Move them now.\"",
"\n\nHe hung up and made another call similar in nature to the Army Commander at Bandar-e 'Abbas, which was much closer. ",
"He demanded the troops be on hand by four that afternoon. ",
"When he hung up, an aide came in the room.",
"\n\n\"General, there is an aircraft landing at the small field. ",
"It may be the Army Supreme Commander. ",
"It is the same kind of two-engine turboprop plane he usually uses.\"",
"\n\n\"Thank you, Major. ",
"Meet him, and see that he's brought here at once with all normal courtesy.\"",
"\n\nThe General sat back and smiled. ",
"He would show his one superior in the Iranian Army the damage, his moves so far, and his plans for stopping the attacking force before it could reach the coast.",
"\n\nHe would have nearly a thousand troops on hand before dark. ",
"They would be deployed at the end of every road leading into the mountains around Chah Bahar. ",
"He would throw in as blocking units all he could find. ",
"He would continue to drop in twelve-man paratroop teams to block all normal avenues south. ",
"He would use the jets from Bandar-e 'Abbas to search for and harass any movement they heard about.",
"\n\nThe enemy force was still a mystery. ",
"It had wiped out all but three men on the first patrol he sent out. ",
"Twenty-seven men dead, two of the escapees wounded. ",
"It was a potent force he was following. ",
"He must do everything he could to stop it.",
"\n\nHe was sure that General Shahr would agree. ",
"The devils must be hunted down, and slaughtered, then their nationality broadcast to the world as invaders and murderers of the lowest order. ",
"It had to be a Western power, but which one? ",
"Perhaps it was Israel; they were tricky and deadly.",
"\n\nHe heard a car pull up outside his office and stood, straightened his tie, and brushed off his uniform. ",
"He looked at the wall and floor where the Colonel had fallen. ",
"All signs of the blood had been cleaned up.",
"\n\nAs the door opened, he stood and snapped a salute.",
"\n\n\"General Shahr, good morning. ",
"If I had known you were coming, I would have had a fitting welcome for you.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Shahr was short and heavy. ",
"He wore five stars on his shoulders, and a scowl on his face.",
"\n\n\"This nuclear plant, this bomb making—why didn't I know anything about it?\"",
"\n\n\"My General, I was simply following orders of our honored President and some of his highest advisors. ",
"I am only their active tool to get the project completed.\"",
"\n\n\"And you have failed miserably. ",
"Even now I understand you draw in our troops to find the attackers. ",
"Why can't our half million troops track down this band of saboteurs you estimated at no more than twenty?\"",
"\n\n\"They are professionals, General. ",
"Deadly, deceptive, experts at concealment. ",
"We will find them. ",
"By nightfall we will have them blocked off from the sea. ",
"They can't go through Pakistan. ",
"We will close the circle and slaughter them to a man.\"",
"\n\n\"You will have no more part in the battle, Ruhollah.\"",
"\n\nHe froze in place when he heard his superior disregard his title and use only his name. ",
"It was a sign that all was not well.",
"\n\n\"You have deceived your superiors, you have conspired behind my back to seize this power and, with it, control Iran and all of the peninsula, and most of Islam. ",
"For that you are a traitor to Iran, and you must pay the price.\"",
"\n\nGeneral Shahr took a revolver from his waistband and shot General Ruhollah twice in the chest. ",
"Ruhollah slumped to the floor, both hands holding the holes in his chest. ",
"He looked up at his commanding officer and started to say something.",
"\n\nGeneral Shahr shot him in the head, and General Ruhollah slammed to the floor, blood pooling beside his head and running down to the stars of his rank on his shoulder.",
"\n\nGeneral Shahr nodded, called in his men to remove the body, then settled down to the situation map on the wall, and began making phone calls.",
"\n\nRuhollah was an idiot to think he could get away with this. ",
"He had been monitored all the way. ",
"As soon as the project was a success, Ruhollah would have been eliminated, and the Army would have taken the credit. ",
"He would have ousted the President, and overruled the Ayatollah, and he, General Shahr, would have ruled two-thirds of the Arab world with his bombs, and the threat of his bombs.",
"\n\nNow they were set back at least two years, and he knew they would be monitored closely by the foreign powers. ",
"Still it could be done with total secrecy, and with an underground facility. ",
"He had plans for it already.",
"\n\nHe turned back to the map. ",
"If he were a military force running for safety, exactly where would he go after heading south? ",
"Continue on that way, divert to the east and slip through the porous border with Pakistan, or sit, and wait for some kind of an air rescue? ",
"Any of the three were possible. ",
"He reached for the phone to check on the nearby bases and see if they had been alerted. ",
"It would be a busy afternoon.",
"\n_32_\n\n# Friday, November 4\n\n## 1920 hours \nHills south of bomb plant \nSouthern Iran\n\nFive minutes after they parted, Murdock had his squad in position. ",
"Magic insisted that he get back his sniper rifle to use in the attack. ",
"Murdock let him have it. ",
"He put Kat next to him, and then the rest of his squad in a rough line aimed at the dozen troopers about seventy-five yards away. ",
"It was fully dark now.",
"\n\nMurdock waited. ",
"Moments later he heard two _tsks_ on the earpiece. ",
"DeWitt had his SEALs ready.",
"\n\nMurdock looked quickly at Kat. ",
"She had her submachine gun up and ready. ",
"He took a deep breath, aimed at the man standing in front of the big fire, and jolted off three rounds.",
"\n\nAt once the whole platoon opened up.",
"\n\nKat hesitated. ",
"Could she do it again? ",
"Then she triggered off three rounds. ",
"They were high. ",
"She brought the muzzle down and fired again into the sudden churning mass of men. ",
"There was screaming, men looking for their weapons, men dying. ",
"She shut her eyes for a minute, heard firing beside her and opened them, and fired again on 3-round bursts until her magazine went dry. ",
"She ripped it out, put another one in, charged a round, and aimed back at the men below.",
"\n\nSuddenly she heard firing from behind her. ",
"She saw three dark shapes running at them from the rear. ",
"She whirled, brought up her weapon, and triggered nine rounds at the three shadows. ",
"One screamed and dove to the ground. ",
"Another fell dead without a word; the third turned and ran back the way he had come.",
"\n\nMurdock looked behind him. ",
"He saw one of the dark shadows crawling away. ",
"He put a 3-round burst into him, then looked at Kat.",
"\n\nShe nodded, swung her weapon back to the front, and kept firing.",
"\n\nMurdock checked the scene carefully. ",
"There was no more return fire from the troopers below.",
"\n\n\"Think we did it,\" DeWitt said on the radio.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, cease fire,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Ed, send in two men to check them out.\"",
"\n\nMurdock lifted off the dirt and ran to the rear where he found the two Iranians. ",
"Both were dead. ",
"He hurried back to their line.",
"\n\nAhead at the small Iranian camp, he heard two shots, then all was silent.",
"\n\nKat stared at him. \"",
"Those shots?\"",
"\n\n\"We have to make sure the enemy are all dead. ",
"We don't take prisoners or leave wounded.\"",
"\n\nKat flinched. ",
"Her face surged into a scowl. \"",
"Isn't that... Isn't that a little cold, brutal?\"",
"\n\n\"Absolutely. ",
"We're not here to play games or give credits for the enemy's bravery. ",
"It's simply kill or be killed. ",
"The way you reacted just a minute ago. ",
"You saw the three coming when the rest of us didn't. ",
"You reacted. ",
"You saved at least three of our lives right here.\"",
"\n\n\"Clear front,\" the radio said in their ears.",
"\n\nThe SEALs moved down and surveyed the wreckage. ",
"There was little they could use. ",
"The ammo didn't fit, and they didn't want to pack along any additional weapons. ",
"Their canteens were still full.",
"\n\n\"No one escaped down here?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\nDeWitt shook his head. \"",
"What was that firing to the rear?\"",
"\n\n\"Three surprised us from behind. ",
"Two are down, and one got away.\"",
"\n\n\"So we better shag ass out of here,\" DeWitt said.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, let's move,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\nThey walked away down the slope of the small pass, and Murdock moved back beside Kat.",
"\n\n\"So?\"",
"\n\n\"I'm alive. ",
"That's the main purpose now—to stay alive. ",
"It's like when you can't breathe, nothing else really matters. ",
"Like now. ",
"If we don't survive, none of my high and mighty principles mean a pile of shit, to drop into the SEAL vernacular.\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"We survive, then we figure out about living. ",
"It can be a tough road.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll make it.\"",
"\n\n\"Good work back there. ",
"If they'd been better shots, we'd be digging two or three graves right about now.\"",
"\n\n\"Didn't think you left anyone behind.\"",
"\n\n\"Sometimes, depends. ",
"Here we would have had to. ",
"We couldn't carry out even one body.\"",
"\n\n\"Hate to mention it but you forgot to ask for a casualty report,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nMurdock frowned. \"",
"Yeah, we didn't take much return fire. ",
"Some, I guess.\" ",
"He clicked his mike. \"",
"Hey, casualty report. ",
"Sound off if anybody got hit.\"",
"\n\nFor a moment there was no sound on the radio, then one small voice came on.",
"\n\n\"Yeah, Doc might take a look at my arm. ",
"It doesn't seem to be working right.\"",
"\n\nMurdock moved over beside Kat. \"",
"Why in hell didn't you say so?\"",
"\n\n\"You didn't ask. ",
"Hell, a SEAL can fight over a little pain.\" ",
"She grinned in the darkness and hoped Murdock could see it.",
"\n\nDoc came storming up.",
"\n\nMurdock called a halt. ",
"He asked for Holt, and had him set up the SATCOM.",
"\n\n\"How bad is it, Doc?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"I'm gonna have to amputate,\" Doc said, sounding re-lieved.",
"\n\n\"You try it and I'll use up my full magazine on you,\" Kat said.",
"\n\nThey both chuckled.",
"\n\n\"One slug cut through about an inch of Kat's forearm,\" Doc said. \"",
"Missed the bone. ",
"Kat will hurt like hell for a week or so, then will have a war wound to brag about. ",
"Oh, yeah, it will leave a battle scar and everything.\"",
"\n\n\"SATCOM is ready, L-T,\" Holt said.",
"\n\nMurdock knew his message. ",
"He typed it in. \"",
"Stroh. ",
"How about a pickup? ",
"Can receive you now. ",
"Answer me, we're running out of time and ammo. ",
"Murdock.\"",
"\n\nAs soon as they switched to receive, the small screen lit up. ",
"The message was short.",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"Possible. ",
"Contact us in two hours. ",
"Have your exact coordinates and time of day there.\"",
"\n\nMurdock snapped off the set. \"",
"We contact them again at exactly twenty-one-forty-two. ",
"Doc, you got your patient bandaged?\"",
"\n\n\"Ready to rock and roll. ",
"Hear she saved the fucking day back here.\"",
"\n\n\"True. ",
"You almost had a lot of work to do. ",
"Let's get out of here at three miles an hour. ",
"Go, Lam.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked again through the Iranian hill country darkness.",
"\n\nTwice they heard jets overhead. ",
"Once a propeller-driven plane sounded to the south but faded out.",
"\n\nMurdock heard the next sound a half hour later. ",
"It was a chopper and headed their way.",
"\n\n\"Big bird coming,\" he said. \"",
"Possible that the guy who got away back there had a radio. ",
"If he did, they must know about where we are.\"",
"\n\nThe chopper came closer, scouring the ravine to the left. ",
"They saw the powerful searchlight. ",
"It turned the ground into daylight for a circle of twenty yards.",
"\n\n\"Scatter,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Try to find a rock to curl around and use your cammo cloth. ",
"He's gonna work this gully for damn sure. ",
"Magic, can you use that fifty?\"",
"\n\n\"Fucking A, L-T. Armor piercing?\"",
"\n\n\"Give it a five-round try if he comes within two hundred yards of us. ",
"No, wait for a hundred yards. ",
"You can't miss at that range.\"",
"\n\n\"You got it, Skipper.\"",
"\n\nRonson had been carrying the fifty and the ammo. ",
"He loaded five rounds of the armor-piercing types and handed the weapon to Magic. ",
"He hunkered down behind a two-foot rock and rested the weapon over the top.",
"\n\n\"Come on, sweetheart,\" Magic said. \"",
"Come and let papa give you a shot or two.\"",
"\n\nChin watched him, and looked over at Doc. \"",
"Hell, I don't know if he's still under or not. ",
"Could be pure adrenaline, a nervous high. ",
"He doesn't even seem to know he's got a shot-up leg.\"",
"\n\n\"Hope it lasts,\" Doc said.",
"\n\nThey had spread out to be fifteen yards apart. ",
"Murdock watched the bird with its long arm of light probing the canyon. ",
"Soon the pilot or observer was satisfied, and the bird angled toward the next gully, the one they had been hiking up.",
"\n\n\"Stay low and don't move a muscle,\" Murdock said.",
"\n\n\"Never fear, the Magic man is here,\" Brown chortled.",
"\n\nThe big chopper swung closer. ",
"At two hundred yards it picked up the gully, changed course, and began working up it, no faster than a slow walk. ",
"It gave the crew plenty of time to watch below. ",
"It was over a hundred feet in the air so the rotor wash made no dust problem on the ground.",
"\n\n\"Closer, you son of a bitch,\" Magic whispered into the mike.",
"\n\nThey waited. ",
"It kept working uphill toward them. ",
"It would be a hundred yards from Murdock when the light touched the first of the men in Second Platoon, more than that distance from Magic.",
"\n\n\"Your guns are free, Magic,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Fire at will.\"",
"\n\nJust as the chopper swung over the rock Ed DeWitt had claimed, Magic fired. ",
"The round slammed through the cabin of the chopper. ",
"Before the bird could make any move, Magic had worked the lever and chambered a new round and fired. ",
"This one thundered into the engine compartment. ",
"At once black smoke poured from the bird.",
"\n\nMagic fired again. ",
"The armor-piercing round exploded inside the machine somewhere and it angled sharply to the left. ",
"The rotor went on freewheeling when the power stopped. ",
"The craft righted itself, then plunged straight to the ground a hundred feet below.",
"\n\n\"Go clean it up,\" Murdock said. \"",
"On me, my squad.\" ",
"The first squad ran downhill toward where the chopper hit the ground with a loud explosion and fire. ",
"They ran to within fifty feet of the burning wreckage but couldn't get any closer.",
"\n\n\"Work the perimeter and look for survivors,\" Murdock ordered in the Motorola. ",
"They found none.",
"\n\nFive minutes later, the fire had burned itself down to a few flames and a lot of smoke.",
"\n\n\"Clear front,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Let's get away from this bonfire.\"",
"\n\nLam met them when they rejoined the platoon. \"",
"South? ",
"L-T?\"",
"\n\n\"Right. ",
"No way we can fool anyone about where we are now. ",
"As soon as that chopper's radio went out, there must have been two or three more birds heading this way. ",
"We make some tracks. ",
"Some concealment would be nice from the lights the new birds must have. ",
"See what we can find.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked again. ",
"This time Magic insisted on carrying the fifty. ",
"Ronson didn't tell him he still had ten rounds in one big magazine for the fifty.",
"\n\nMurdock watched his timepiece. ",
"They made good time for the first hour. ",
"It was 2100. ",
"In forty-two minutes they would contact Uncle Sugar, and hope for good news.",
"\n\nMurdock eased to the rear and walked beside Kat.",
"\n\n\"How's it going?\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"I'm good.\"",
"\n\n\"Really?\"",
"\n\n\"I'm surviving, after all. ",
"We'll see. ",
"First survive, then take a shot at getting a life, right?\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah. ",
"The arm?\"",
"\n\n\"I got some ibuprofen from Doc. ",
"Four of the suckers. ",
"Taking the burn out of it. ",
"I'll make it. ",
"Is Uncle going to pop for a chopper for us?\"",
"\n\n\"Hard to tell. ",
"At least the President is in on it. ",
"If I tell them you're wounded, it should be a cinch.\"",
"\n\n\"Don't you dare, Murdock. ",
"I mean it. ",
"Don't say a word about me.\"",
"\n\n\"You got it. ",
"First Squad owes you one, SEAL. ",
"You remember that.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked for another half hour and Murdock stopped them against a steep hill with a lot of moon shadows. ",
"Holt had the SATCOM set up before Murdock asked him.",
"\n\nHe worked the mugger and got their coordinates, which he wrote down on the edge of his map. ",
"He used a small mouth-held flashlight to be sure he got the figures right. ",
"Then he keyed the screen. ",
"His message.",
"\n\n\"Murdock has his ears on.\"",
"\n\nHe snapped it to receive, and seconds later the screen showed a response.",
"\n\n\"We have a go on chopper. ",
"It has lifted off its birdhouse already and is on the way. ",
"Two F-14's will fly cover at time of pickup. ",
"ETA when you give us your exact coordinates. ",
"Use two red flares on the ground to mark your LZ. ",
"Make it as level a spot as possible. ",
"Coordinates. ",
"The Seahawk will give you three strobe flashes, then three more for identification as it comes in.\"",
"\n\nMurdock typed in the coordinates from the mugger, had Holt double-check them to be sure, then zapped out the burst of transmission.",
"\n\nThey waited with the set on receive. ",
"It was five minutes before the screen came to life.",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"ETA your site 2240. ",
"Use two red flares to mark LZ. ",
"Any hostile action?\"",
"\n\n\"No hostiles now. ",
"Will use green flares on any hostiles. ",
"May be three hundred yards off coordinates for level LZ. ",
"Waiting.\"",
"\n\nMurdock looked at the silent set. ",
"Done. \"",
"Fold it up, let's find an LZ.\"",
"\n\nAs soon as he heard the problem, Lam took off on a run. ",
"He was back before Murdock got the platoon moving.",
"\n\n\"L-T, out here to the left about four hundred yards we have a valley of sorts. ",
"Level spot a hundred yards square.\"",
"\n\n\"Let's move it there,\" Murdock said. \"",
"Keep your eyes and ears open. ",
"We don't want to be surprised this close to home.\"",
"\n\nThey hiked to the spot, and Murdock gave the two red flares to Jaybird to light, and throw when they heard the friendly bird and saw the three white strobe flashes.",
"\n\n\"Perimeter defense,\" Murdock said. \"",
"We watch everywhere, all the time for the next fifty minutes or so. ",
"Holt, be ready to switch to receive on the Miltac frequency so we can talk with the Seahawk and maybe the F-fourteens. ",
"Let's move.\"",
"\n\n\"That chopper we shot down,\" Kat said from ten yards to his right, \"will they send in some more right away?\"",
"\n\n\"I would. ",
"Try to get us here before we slip away again. ",
"It depends how good the guy who got by us is, and how good he is on coordinates.\"",
"\n\nThey waited.",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later, Murdock felt easier about it. ",
"A quick landing, sprint to the big open door. ",
"Pile in seventeen bodies and a brisk takeoff.",
"\n\nIt didn't work out that way.",
"\n\nTwenty minutes before the Seahawk was due, three big choppers came in from the north. ",
"They spotlighted two of the platoon and dropped down two hundred yards away. ",
"Doors clanged and Murdock could just feel the troops rushing out.",
"\n\n\"Magic, your big one is free. ",
"Everyone fire at those choppers. ",
"Now, keep it high so we don't hit any friendlies.\"",
"\n\nThe guns opened up, the ones that could reach out two hundred yards. ",
"The MGs chattered. ",
"Magic got in one lucky round on one of the dark choppers and it mushroomed into flames. ",
"That backlighted twenty Iranian troopers charging toward them. ",
"Half of them went down on the first volley. ",
"That slowed them.",
"\n\nA moment later three more choppers came in due south of the platoon.",
"\n\n\"Damnit, fucking damnit to hell,\" Murdock bellowed. \"",
"Half of you hit each side. ",
"Hold up on the short guns.\"",
"\n\nBefore they had warned up on the second trio of enemy helicopters and their troops, Holt was on the Motorola.",
"\n\n\"Skipper, I've got two Tomcats two minutes away. ",
"They suggest we hit those chopper guys with some green flares.\"",
"\n\n\"Roger that. ",
"Who is closest to each side with the flares?\" ",
"He got responses, and thirty seconds later, they shot out the rifle flares at the enemy choppers.",
"\n\nAlmost before the first one exploded with a green light, an angry bird from the sky swooped down and laced the Iranian chopper area with fifty rounds of 20mm cannon fire. ",
"A second Iran helicopter exploded in flames.",
"\n\nThe second green flare hit the southern force and soon the second Tomcat slammed in on target and got away seventy-five to a hundred rounds of cannon fire before he pulled up and went around for another pass.",
"\n\nIn four minutes the Tomcats had made four passes at each of the enemy contingents. ",
"Two more choppers caught fire, and there was little return fire from the Iranians.",
"\n\nHolt hit his lip mike again. \"",
"L-T, I have a Seahawk coming in. ",
"Suggest we light the red flares.\"",
"\n\n\"Do it,\" Murdock barked.",
"\n\nHe saw the flares burst into color just as the Tomcats made another pass, blasting the remnants of the Iranian forces into deadly fragments.",
"\n\nThe big Seahawk settled to ground inside the two red flares.",
"\n\n\"Magic and Kat first,\" Murdock said loudly in his mike to get over the chopper sound. \"",
"Go, you two, now go, everyone else right behind. ",
"This ain't no waiting game we've got here.\"",
"\n_33_\n\n# Friday, November 4\n\n## 2244 hours \nLanding zone in hills \nNear Chah Bahar, Iran\n\nMurdock watched as Magic and Kat both ran to the open door of the Seahawk while the rotors whirled. ",
"They jumped on board. ",
"Murdock heard firing from behind him. ",
"He turned and sprayed the area with the rest of his magazine, then ran for the chopper with the last of the SEALs. ",
"He had almost made it to the door when he saw Kat lean out with her MP-5, and shoot off a full magazine of rounds in one burst.",
"\n\nThe rounds went well over his head and toward where there had been more muzzle flashes behind them.",
"\n\nMurdock pulled himself into the Seahawk.",
"\n\n\"DeWitt, do we have a count?\"",
"\n\n\"You're the last, Murdock. ",
"All seventeen SEALs present and accounted for.\"",
"\n\nA crewman slammed the door shut, and the chopper pulled up like it was on a spring, jumping into the air and slanting away from the groundfire.",
"\n\nMurdock looked around in the dim light of the chopper. \"",
"Anybody get hit in that last exchange?\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah,\" a voice said.",
"\n\n\"Washington?\" ",
"DeWitt asked.",
"\n\n\"'Fraid so, L-T. Caught one in the shoulder, I was almost in the fucking door. ",
"Two feet away from getting home free. ",
"Kat there pounded out about sixty rounds just then and I figured she pushed them crackers' heads down.\"",
"\n\nDoc Ellsworth was by Washington's side a moment later. ",
"He pulled off the cammy shirt and looked at the wound. ",
"The Navy crew chief brought a flashlight.",
"\n\n\"Oh, yeah, Washington, you bought a good one. ",
"Hit the bone and didn't come out. ",
"We'll let the real Navy doctors on the carrier take care of it.\" ",
"He bandaged it up and slipped the shirt back in place except for the sleeve. ",
"Doc gave him three pain pills. \"",
"You take it easy. ",
"We'll have you in sick bay inside of an hour.\"",
"\n\n\"How's Magic?\" ",
"Murdock asked the medic.",
"\n\n\"Don't know. ",
"He hasn't complained. ",
"Magic? ",
"Where the hell are you?\"",
"\n\nThey stared around the cramped inside of the Seahawk. \"",
"Hey, he's over here,\" Kat said. \"",
"Looks like he's passed out.\"",
"\n\nTwenty minutes later they were nearing the big aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. ",
"It had steamed down close to Dubayy of the United Arab Emirates to cut down on flying time.",
"\n\nMagic had come around once, grinned, waved at them, and drifted off to sleep.",
"\n\n\"He's been running on empty for the past day and a half,\" Doc said. \"",
"Living on guts and hope. ",
"That leg wound really drained him, then he kept hiking along with the rest of us. ",
"There's got to be a ton of infection in that leg.\"",
"\n\n\"We'll land in fifteen minutes,\" the crew chief told them.",
"\n\nA half hour later, on board the USS _Monroe CVN 81_ , Murdock and DeWitt saw their people into sick bay. ",
"Kat got quick treatment. ",
"They took Washington into surgery to dig out the slug. ",
"Magic was another matter.",
"\n\n\"Massive infection,\" a Navy surgeon said. \"",
"He's lucky to be alive. ",
"Another twenty-four hours and it would have eaten him up. ",
"Good work getting that bullet out. ",
"We'll go after the infection with antibiotics. ",
"He should be up and around in a month.\"",
"\n\n\"When can he fly back to Balboa Naval Hospital?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Two days, Lieutenant. ",
"Not before.\"",
"\n\nMurdock went for a telephone chat with Don Stroh, then had the biggest steak the mess could provide.",
"\n\nAn hour later, Murdock was in his quarters when a knock came on the door. ",
"He opened it. ",
"Kat stood there looking washed and combed in a clean pair of cammies, with her railroad tracks on her collar.",
"\n\n\"You keep those bars of rank with you all the time?\" ",
"Murdock asked.",
"\n\n\"Hey, you said to. ",
"May I come in?\"",
"\n\nHe stepped back, and she went in and sat on a chair.",
"\n\n\"So, we made it, we survived,\" Kat said.",
"\n\n\"Now we start thinking about having a life, again.\"",
"\n\n\"I've been wondering about that. ",
"I think I'm through tearing nukes apart. ",
"As beneficial as it might be. ",
"I've always liked research.\"",
"\n\n\"You shouldn't have any trouble finding a spot. ",
"Maybe at M.I.T. or Cal Tech.\"",
"\n\n\"No, I don't want that much pressure. ",
"Lower expectations, lower stress, more time to have a life.\"",
"\n\n\"Good thinking. ",
"Hey, I'd like to give you a medal, Kat, but I can't do that. ",
"You probably saved my life out there, but it's all one big, dark secret.\"",
"\n\n\"I know. ",
"I can tell some civilian what I did, but then I'd have to kill him. ",
"I know.\"",
"\n\n\"Any regrets?\"",
"\n\n\"Well, I'm not sure I wanted to find out how it felt to kill another human being. ",
"Three, in fact, maybe more.\"",
"\n\n\"How does it feel, Kat?\"",
"\n\n\"Part of it damn good, especially those two bushwhackers who came up behind us. ",
"I cried after the first one. ",
"But then the old bugaboo about surviving came to the fore, and I had to cope with that. ",
"Survive first, get a life afterwards.\"",
"\n\n\"You'll do fine, Kat.\"",
"\n\n\"What about you?\"",
"\n\n\"I have another part of my life waiting for me in Washington, D.C.\"\n\n\"That would be Ardith Manchester, beautiful lawyer type.\"",
"\n\n\"You knew that all along?\"",
"\n\n\"Sure, I research more than physics when I take on a job.\"",
"\n\nThe phone on the desk rang. ",
"Kat shrugged, lifted it off the set, and gave him the handset.",
"\n\n\"Yes, sir.\"",
"\n\n\"Murdock. ",
"Stroh. ",
"I've had half that damn carrier force trying to find Kat. ",
"Any idea where she is? ",
"Somebody here wants to talk to her.\"",
"\n\n\"I think I could find her. ",
"Just a minute.\" ",
"He handed Kat the phone. \"",
"It's for you.\"",
"\n\nKat took the handset. \"",
"Yes, this is Katherine Garnet.\"",
"\n\n\"May I call you Kat?\" ",
"the booming voice came.",
"\n\nShe frowned. \"",
"Yes, of course.\"",
"\n\n\"Don Stroh here has been telling me what a great job you did becoming a SEAL for a week. ",
"We're all proud of you here at the White House.\"",
"\n\n\"The White House?\"",
"\n\nThe voice on the other end chuckled. \"",
"Don didn't tell you. ",
"This is President Mason, and I want you to be sure to stop over and see the First Lady and me as soon as you get to Washington. ",
"Have Murdock bring you. ",
"I need to talk to him as well. ",
"Just wanted to offer my congratulations. ",
"You might have prevented World War Three, or at least some disastrous fighting among the Arab states. ",
"You rest up now. ",
"Don says you're due to fly home in two days.\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, and thank you. ",
"Thank you very much, Mr. President.\"",
"\n\n\"Don't mention it. ",
"You get that arm healed up now, y'hear?\"",
"\n\n\"Yes, sir.\" ",
"The line went dead and Kat hung up the phone, a strange smile growing on her face.",
"\n\n\"The President,\" she said.",
"\n\nMurdock grinned. \"",
"I guessed as much. ",
"Hell, won't be any getting along with you now for the next three days.\"",
"\n\n\"Shut up, Murdock, and buy me a Coke. ",
"Shouldn't you be checking on the troops or something. ",
"I thought us SEALs took care of our own.\"",
"\n\n\"Just about to do that. ",
"Most of them should be sleeping by now. ",
"Let's go check them out.\"",
"\n\n## Tuesday, November 8 \n1040 hours \nThird Platoon HQ \nCoronado, California\n\nFour days later, Murdock stretched out in his office chair and relaxed. ",
"Magic Brown was safely tucked away in Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. ",
"The doctors were surprised how the infection had spread, and repeated how lucky he had been not to lose the leg. ",
"The evaluation was that he would need a month of bed rest, massive medications, then two weeks of rehab before he could start to work out with the platoon again.",
"\n\nFred Washington's shoulder was on the mend. ",
"The bullet had done no damage to his shoulder bones and he'd be good as new in three weeks.",
"\n\nKat had been treated at Balboa and released. ",
"She had taken a commercial nonstop flight from San Diego's Lind-bergh Field the next morning. ",
"Murdock had her phone number and would contact her when he got to D.C. in a week or so.",
"\n\nHe was helping Jaybird get the men on week-long passes, and the squad room was half-empty.",
"\n\nWhen the phone rang, he let it go four times, then figured Jaybird wasn't around.",
"\n\n\"Yes, Third Platoon.\"",
"\n\n\"Made it back, I hear.\"",
"\n\n\"Stroh, don't you ever sleep?\"",
"\n\n\"It's the middle of the day. ",
"Just wanted to say hi.\"",
"\n\n\"Hi, Stroh.\"",
"\n\n\"Oh, the President is as happy as a mud turtle in a hen house. ",
"Says the Iranians are mad as hell, but can't figure out who to blame. ",
"They couldn't nail down whose jets or chopper invaded their sovereign airspace and soil, but they won't openly admit they were working on nuclear bombs. ",
"Our experts say they can't get anything built now for at least three years. ",
"Everyone will watch what they sell to Iran that could be used in a nuke.\"",
"\n\n\"Good. ",
"Tell the President to remember me when I go up for my next stripe.\"",
"\n\n\"You, full Commander? ",
"Then they wouldn't let you go out to play with the dangerous toys.\"",
"\n\n\"Sure they would. ",
"I've seen some three-stripers in the field.\"",
"\n\n\"Not much anymore. ",
"At least not working your special gig. ",
"Hey, I was just wondering what you know about the New Russian Navy.\"",
"\n\n\"Not a damned thing, and I don't want to know. ",
"I've got a month's leave coming and I'm taking it. ",
"As a wise person told me in the middle of that country over there. '",
"First we survive, then we find a life.' ",
"I'm going to take a shot at finding a life. ",
"And Stroh. ",
"Don't call me. ",
"You'll probably know where I am, but unless the President has a serious health problem, or the moon spins out of orbit, don't call me.\"",
"\n\n\"Yeah, sure, big guy. ",
"Like always. ",
"You stop by and see me when you're in D.C., and say hello to that sweet little girl, Ardith.\"",
"\n\n\"Good-bye, Don.\"",
"\n\n\"Good-bye, Murdock.\"",
"\n\n## Tuesday, November 15 \n1400 hours \nSurfside Motel \nCannon Beach, Oregon\n\nEd DeWitt had been back from Iran for over a week now. ",
"For the last four days he hadn't even thought about the SEALs. ",
"It was new territory for him. ",
"He had taken a two-week leave. ",
"He and Milly were on what they called a pre-honeymoon. ",
"They drove up the long California coast toward Oregon, stopping at every small town and village. ",
"They shopped, and ate all sorts of unusual foods, bartered with the natives, and chilled out on the scenery and good company.",
"\n\nNow they lay on lounges watching the Pacific pound against the shore at Cannon Beach, Oregon. ",
"The sun had just rimmed the horizon and sparkled a hundred shades of pink, deep reds, and purples into the generous spread of Oregon clouds.",
"\n\n\"I may never go back,\" DeWitt said, sipping a cold beer.",
"\n\nMilly grinned. \"",
"Says who? ",
"We've got one more week. ",
"In about five days you'll get up and scan the international headlines. ",
"You'll call the quarter deck once a day to see what's going on in Third Platoon. ",
"You'll worry about how Fred Washington's shoulder is healing.\"",
"\n\nShe sipped at her beer. \"",
"Hey, Ed. ",
"I wouldn't want it any other way. ",
"If you didn't do those things, you wouldn't be you. ",
"I fell in love with the real you. ",
"In spite of all the damned drawbacks—the danger, the outrageous things they ask you guys to do—I guess I wouldn't have that any other way as well.\"",
"\n\n\"Woman, you make a lot of sense. ",
"Now rub my back.\"",
"\n\nShe did. \"",
"I had the idea to rub you somewhere else.\"",
"\n\n\"Not out here.\"",
"\n\nThey hadn't talked about Kat. ",
"Milly kept rubbing his back, then massaged his shoulders.",
"\n\n\"Tell me about Kat. ",
"How did she do?\"",
"\n\n\"Like one of the guys, honest. ",
"She was a lady, who killed at least three of them. ",
"She probably saved the lives of one or two of Murdock's squad when three guys came up behind them. ",
"She heard them, turned, and cut down two of them with her submachine gun. ",
"The third one ran.\"",
"\n\n\"That's enough. ",
"I don't want you to tell me so much you'll have to kill me. ",
"I'm glad she did well. ",
"Terribly happy that she didn't mess up and somebody else got killed. ",
"End of talk.\"",
"\n\nShe stood and caught his hand. \"",
"Now, inside where there's a little privacy. ",
"I have something else I want to talk with you about. ",
"Body talk I guess you'd call it.\"",
"\n\nEd DeWitt grinned. \"",
"Yeah, let's call it that.\"",
"\n\n"
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"Q:\n\nThe で particle before です\n\nThis may be slightly multifaceted because I have a larger question regarding で that is contextualized by a smaller one.",
"\nIt is improper to put で before です or だ right. ",
"If someone asks 何で来ましたか (How did you get here?) ",
"you could reply バスで来ました。 ",
"But you can't write バスでです... right? ",
"Is there a way to answer without a verb?",
"\nOk that's my contextual question... so my real question is, if it is true you cannot place で before です in this manner, how is it possible to say 初めてです if that is the 連用形 + で.\nOr is it a completely different thing all together and just considered an adverb?",
"\nSUMMARY:\n1/ Can you place で before です per example: バス ＋ で ＋ で ＋ あります.\n2/ If not... how is it possible to say 初めてです, as to me that is 初め ＋ で ＋で + あります\n\nA:\n\nFirst of all, 初めてです is verb+て+です, the te-form + です. The te-form has nothing to do with the particle で. (で can be like the te-form of だ/です, but this is not what your question is about.)",
"\nです is a copula, and so Xです means \"it is X\". ",
"You can substitute pretty much everything for X. The best way to think about your sentences would be to interpret then as 「バスで 」です and 「初めて」です. You could also say 「信用を」です or 「」、です etc.",
"\nBut when you think about it a bit more, the particle で does not apply to the verb (action) in these sentences the same way as in バスで来る - to come and to do this coming by bus.",
"\nHowever, a copula is not some action that could perform \"by bus\". ",
"バスでです means \"it is by bus\", but \"by\" does not apply to \"is\", because then \"it exists by bus\" should make sense as well. ",
"The English verb \"be\" is used as a copula here, and the right way to think about it is \"it is 'by bus'\".",
"\nTo summarize, です is a bit different from your usual verb, and it is certainly not the same as the English verb \"to be\". ",
"Curiously, and what might add to your confusion, is where the copula itself comes from: Japanese had many copulas, but many of them are made up of particle+ある: で+ある(\"to exist as\"), なり=に+ある, たり=と+ある, で+御座る. \n\n"
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"\"Sucking fry oil from these seafood restaurants is the worst.\" \"",
"I don't mind the chicken places, but the seafood makes me sick.\" \"",
"Quit moaning and put the hose in.\" \"",
"Smells like shrimp!\" \"",
"Okay, suck it!\" \"",
"Hold it!\" \"",
"Hold it!\" \"",
"I got hair.\" \"",
"A lot!\" \" ",
"It's gross.\" \" ",
"Probably a rat.\" \"",
"Let's just open her up.\" \"",
"Pull it out.\" \"",
"Fishing is not a sport.\" \"",
"But monuments to sporting events in ancient Egypt include fishing, as well as swimming and wrestling.\" \"",
"Come on, no sweat, no sport.\" \"",
"Boris Spassky at chess.\" \"",
"He used to perspire profusely.\" \"",
"Why do you got to make things so complicated?\" \"",
"Basketball, football, hockey... that's a sport.\" \"",
"Board games, fishing... not a sport.\" \"",
"No problem going easy on the fried food after this one.\" \"",
"The International Olympic Committee is considering adding chess as a sport.\" \" ",
"Not a sport.\" \" ",
"See?\" \"",
"Not a sport.\" \"",
"Neither is, ribbon twirling, bridge or synchronized swimming.\" \"",
"Synchronized swimming...\" \"that's not a sport, that's for sure.\" \"",
"God.\" \"",
"I'm in the middle of something, aren't I?\" \"",
"Look.\" \"",
"Dead guy.\" \"",
"Look at that.\" \"",
"The Colonel's not gonna like this one.\" \"",
"Male.\" \"",
"No sign of clothing.\" \"",
"All other stats still unknown.\" \"",
"He was found at the bottom of this grease receptacle by those lovely gentlemen over there.\" \"",
"The remains are covered in flesh.\" \" ",
"Why am I here?\" \" ",
"I don't know.\" \"",
"I told Booth.\" \"",
"God.\" \"",
"In the middle again.\" \"",
"I heard murder victim, in cooking oil, I thought, \"Bones would love this one.\"\" \"",
"How long has guy been in there?\" \"",
"Tank hasn't been emptied in a couple weeks.\" \" ",
"Two weeks.\" \" ",
"I could be biking now.\" \"",
"An activity during which I perspire.\" \"",
"Daily addition of hot oil hastened decomposition and led\" \" to early hydration of body fat.\" \" ",
"So he drowned, or maybe fried?\" \"",
"Billiards is considered a sport by the International Olympic Committee.\" \" ",
"Bones, we're working here.\" \" ",
"Not me.\" \"",
"Can we get the body out of the here, please?\" \"",
"Slowly, slowly...\" \"Careful now...\" \"Okay, careful.\" \"",
"Is the skin slipping?\" \"",
"The skin is slipping!\" \"",
"Oh, my...\" \"Bones, look at that.\" \" ",
"This is good for me.\" \" ",
"Yeah.\" \"",
"Right?\" \"",
"You're kidding.\" \"",
"Avatar?\" \"",
"There were over 10,000 entries for 500 tickets.\" \"",
"And you won?\" \"",
"Good fortune!\" \"",
"If I thought that good fortune existed.\" \"",
"And you're taking us?\" \"",
"All friendship is fleeting and ends in abandonment.\" \"",
"So, why not spend a few good hours with you guys until it all falls apart?\" \" ",
"Works for me.\" \" ",
"Heck, yeah, it does.\" \"",
"Nice!\" \"",
"Avatar!\" \"",
"You guys do realize that being this excited about a sci-fi film will drastically cut down on the number of women that will sleep with us.\" \"",
"I'm into high double digits, sex-wise, so not worried.\" \"",
"You're closing in on a hundred women?\" \"",
"Mr. Fisher, I'm ready.\" \"",
"Coming, Dr. Brennan.\" \"",
"A hundred women?\" \"",
"That's... that's a lot.\" \"",
"Yeah, yeah, hats off to the guy.\" \"",
"Compound depressed fracture to the temporal bone.\" \"",
"More hairline fractures on the femur, humerus and scapula.\" \"",
"And here on the right ilium.\" \"",
"There are puncture marks on the ilium, iliolumbar and sacroiliac.\" \"",
"So he was beaten and stabbed.\" \"",
"Somebody really went after this guy.\" \"",
"Those injuries didn't kill him.\" \"",
"There's grease in all levels of the bronchi, which means, our victim was alive when he was tossed into the vat.\" \"",
"Cause of death is drowning and cooking, or vice versa.\" \"",
"Saturated fats.\" \"",
"They're a killer.\" \"",
"Also...\" \"Carboxyhemoglobin test shows our victim had a 17% carbon-monoxide level.\" \"",
"Triple the norm and double what even a heavy smoker would have.\" \"",
"He could've worked with cars, along a freeway, maybe a told Booth?\" \"",
"Let's review occupational markers.\" \"",
"Acute asymmetrical spinal subluxation, which, in life, would have been apparent in a pronounced leftward lean.\" \"",
"Chronic periosteal reaction with bone formation over the clavicle.\" \"",
"Constant pressure on his collarbone.\" \"",
"Remodeled bite marks on the tibia.\" \"",
"Probably canine.\" \"",
"Sounds like this guy spent most of his life carrying something heavy on his left shoulder while dodging dogs.\" \"",
"Together with the high levels of carbon monoxide,\" \"I posit that our victim was a mail carrier.\" \"",
"Someone went postal on this postman.\" \"",
"Bones\" \" Season 05 Episode 09 \"The Gamer in the Grease\"\" \"Synchro:\" \"ShalimarFox, Dark_Chii\" \"Subtitle:\" \"A²S Team --==All-about-Subs.fr==\" \"Steve Rifton, 26-year-old mailman, reported missing by his wife 12 days ago.\" \"",
"You figured out he was a mailman, and guess what?\" \" ",
"He's a mailman!\" \" ",
"Why are you surprised?\" \"",
"It surprises me, it amazes me sometimes how you figure that stuff out.\" \" ",
"He's a mailman.\" \"",
"You figured that out.\" \" ",
"I'm good at my job.\" \"",
"Wait until you see what I got here.\" \"",
"Here...\" \" Marked in red.\" \" ",
"Right, is Steve Rifton's postal route.\" \" ",
"And here...\" \" Marked in black.\" \"",
"Is the grease truck route.\" \" ",
"See what I've done here?\" \" ",
"Obviously, you've created a geographic\" \"Venn diagram.\" \"",
"Incorrect.\" \"",
"What I've shown here is they've overlapped in the same area.\" \"",
"You need to Google Venn diagram.\" \"",
"You know, lonely housewife, husband away on a business trip.\" \"",
"Bow-chicka wow-wow.\" \"",
"What's bow-chicka wow-wow?\" \"",
"You know, A-boom-clicka-mow-mow.\" \"",
"It's a very common porno plot theme, which, in real life is jealous husband stuffing, you know, horny mailmen into grease traps.\" \" ",
"Who's that?\" \" ",
"Victim's wife.\" \"",
"Well, are we going to tell her about the clacka-mow-boom?\" \"",
"No, it's bow-chicka wow-wow.\" \"",
"Boom-clacka mow-mow.\" \"",
"It's so unfair.\" \"",
"All those years of effort,\" \"Steve finally gets somewhere, and then gets killed.\" \" ",
"Who'd want your husband dead?\" \" ",
"You know who Steve is, right?\" \" ",
"I mean was.\" \" ",
"A postman.\" \"",
"A mailman.\" \"",
"That was Steve's job, his vocation.\" \"",
"His avocation was gaming.\" \" ",
"He was a professional gambler?\" \" ",
"Video gaming.\" \"",
"He became the reigning world champ in Punky Pong after he got a perfect score.\" \" ",
"It was on the news.\" \" ",
"Did he have any enemies?\" \"",
"Sure.\" \"",
"The thousands of people he beat out for the world title.\" \"",
"It's a very competitive sport.\" \"",
"Agent Booth would never accept Punky Pong as a sport.\" \"",
"Did your husband have any trouble at work?\" \"",
"Steve was never going to be Postmaster General, that's for sure.\" \"",
"He had a very high IQ, you know how those people can be.\" \" ",
"Very absent-minded.\" \" ",
"I don't think that's true at all.\" \"",
"Sometimes it was tough to get his attention, but he was a good man.\" \"",
"Please find whoever hurt him.\" \"",
"Does Dr. Brennan know you're soaking the body in beer?\" \"",
"Yeast speeds up the putrefaction process.\" \"",
"It's the kinder, gentler way of removing the last vestiges of flesh and cartilage from the skeleton.\" \"",
"Is that beer?\" \"",
"Beats being scraped or eaten by beetles.\" \"",
"Technically, his remaining cells will be very drunk before he ceases to exist.\" \"",
"So, how long's this thing take to marinate?\" \" ",
"Few hours.\" \" ",
"Good.\" \"",
"Both of you, come with me.\" \"",
"Okay, I am no longer able to discern special effects from live action.\" \"",
"This is 2D.\" \"3D's gonna blow your mind.\" \"",
"One of us needs to be in line right now.\" \"",
"We're up against freaks and fanatics for the best seats.\" \"",
"To defeat them, we must become freaks and fanatics.\" \"",
"All right, I've cleared most of my days, but I am a mental health professional with responsibilities.\" \"",
"Between me and Hodgins, we'll have the forensics covered.\" \" ",
"What's with the blue people?\" \" ",
"The Nav'i.\" \" ",
"I beg your pardon?\" \" ",
"Denizens of a lush planet\" \" called Pandora.\" \" ",
"You boys are not allowed to watch movies on my monitor.\" \"",
"This is so much more than a movie.\" \"",
"Yeah, I mean, we're sorry, but the screen is so big.\" \" ",
"You get porn on this thing?\" \" ",
"Get out.\" \"",
"Out!\" \"",
"All right, I'll take the first shift, you guys cover me.\" \"",
"Everyone e-mail me your projected availabilities, I'll set up a schedule.\" \"",
"Our mailman had a clean record, except for complaints from this guy Seeger.\" \"",
"Right.\" \"",
"Seeger claims that he trespassed and was acting creepy around his son.\" \"",
"Protecting the well-being of your kid seems like a good reason to kill.\" \"",
"I'm not saying that I approve.\" \"",
"I just saying, I understand.\" \"",
"This is probably the child who got creeped on by the victim.\" \"",
"Hello?\" \"",
"Excuse me?\" \"",
"Hello?\" \"",
"Hi.\" \"",
"I'm Agent Booth.\" \"",
"I'm with the FBI.\" \" ",
"Show him your gun.\" \"",
"Kids love guns.\" \" ",
"Let me handle this.\" \" ",
"Can I help you?\" \" ",
"Yeah, Agent Booth, the FBI.\" \"",
"We're here to talk to you about the, mailman incident.\" \" ",
"That was 3 months ago.\" \" ",
"Right, and what was the problem?\" \"",
"Problem was, I come out, the guy is here, staring at my son.\" \"",
"Dougie... is autistic.\" \"",
"He can't watch out for himself in that way.\" \"",
"He's very focused on this game.\" \"",
"Punky Pong.\" \"",
"Dougie plays it most of the day.\" \"",
"We take it away, he shuts... shuts down.\" \"",
"So... someone else complain about the mailman?\" \"",
"That why the FBI's involved?\" \"",
"Look, you're aware that this mailman was the Punky Pong world champion?\" \"",
"You got to be kidding me.\" \"",
"That's why he was checking out Dougie?\" \"",
"He should have said something.\" \"",
"He just took off.\" \"",
"That's why I made the complaint.\" \"",
"If I...\" \"If I was out of line, I'll apologize.\" \"",
"Punky Pong is kind of an old school game, but it takes a lot of skill.\" \"",
"There are a lot of message boards and Web sites dedicated to it, even today, but I found something on one of them that...\" \"How many people play?\" \"",
"Thousands.\" \"",
"They put out a retro version on modern platforms like Xbox, and it's having this whole resurgence.\" \"",
"But what I found...\" \"Why do they only allow world records to be attained on a vintage machine?\" \"",
"Well, I guess the purists like it old school.\" \" ",
"But, I think you need to see...\" \" Are there many of those machines?\" \"",
"Because the autistic boy had one.\" \"",
"I think around 20,000 were made and there are probably about 1,500 that are still in existence.\" \"",
"I think this is something that you really need to see.\" \"",
"This is Billy Gabel.\" \"",
"He was the Punky Pong world champion before our murder victim claimed the throne.\" \"",
"I am still the rightful champion.\" \"",
"The manner in which Steve Rifton stole my crown is shameful.\" \"",
"I will not put up with this.\" \"",
"Steve Rifton, I am the rightful and eternal world champion and you are dead!\" \"",
"Angela, you should have shown me this first.\" \"",
"Well...\" \"I am still the rightful champion.\" \"",
"I will not leave this alone.\" \"",
"Steve Rifton, I am the rightful and eternal world champion and you are dead!\" \"",
"Okay, so video games provide the outlet for aggression that more physically taxing sports also provide.\" \" ",
"Come on, video games are not a sport.\" \" ",
"Well, technically, they are, sport being a competitive activity governed by a set of rules...\" \" Dr. Brennan is correct.\" \" ",
"Right, so you actually think that this geek is capable of murder because some guy beat his high score?\" \"",
"If one's instincts are deeply rooted in the status that they've enjoyed from the game, and someone takes that away...\" \"They would just be another geek lining up to see a space movie.\" \"",
"No, it's not just another space movie.\" \"",
"It's a symbol-laden alternate reality with...\" \"So... this guy was the recognized champion for nearly ten years.\" \"",
"Right?\" \"",
"If he feels that his notoriety was stolen, he might take revenge.\" \"",
"Sorry.\" \"",
"This is Dr. Lance Sweets.\" \"",
"Fisher just called from the movie line.\" \"",
"He's got to get back to the lab, so you have to relieve him because I can't.\" \"",
"I understand.\" \"",
"That's a fascinating case.\" \"",
"I'm needed for a consult.\" \" ",
"We're through here, right?\" \" ",
"You're coming with us to see if this geek is actually psycho or not, pal.\" \"",
"So I'm afraid you're going to have to take care of the patient on your own, at this juncture, now.\" \"",
"Sweets, I'm knee-deep in larvae and dicotyledons here.\" \"",
"I'm sorry, Doctor.\" \" ",
"Bye now.\" \" ",
"Sweets, don't...\" \"This is it;\" \"this is all I got so far.\" \"",
"Please tell me these all crawled into the Dumpster after the oil was removed from the restaurant.\" \"",
"They had antemortem burns, which means they flew into while it was cooking.\" \" ",
"It's easy to diet around here.\" \" ",
"So I assumed that the fragment of the cricket exoskeleton from the skull wound had migrated from the grease, but definitely uncooked, so my 3 mysterious particulates were all transferred from the weapon.\" \"",
"Exoskeleton is from the Gryllidae family, probably a nocturnal cricket, the graminoid seed is from a fescue grass, and I thought the silk-like fiber was from a tetrapod, but what kind is indeterminate at this point.\" \"",
"You're talking really fast.\" \"",
"Are you late for something?\" \"",
"Why?\" \"",
"Do you want me to go through it all again more slowly?\" \"",
"No, that's okay.\" \"",
"Do you know where the cricket and the grass came from?\" \" ",
"North America.\" \" ",
"Great.\" \"",
"So Asia is out.\" \"",
"I'm still analyzing what was in the water where the fescue grew, but, you know, I can check that against specific water districts and narrow down the location further...\" \"Great.\" \"",
"Have you seen Fisher?\" \"",
"No, no, but I'll go find him.\" \"",
"That's not necessary.\" \"",
"He'll turn up.\" \"",
"But, the mass spec is doing it's thing and the computer... really checks all the districts, so I'm on autopilot here for at least the next two hours, and we know Fisher, how depressed he gets, I'll go find him.\" \"",
"FBI.\" \"",
"You Pong Master Bill?\" \"",
"That's right.\" \"",
"We're here about the threats you made against Steve Rifton on the Internet.\" \"",
"That guy cheated.\" \"",
"I don't believe he played a perfect game.\" \"",
"I want my title back.\" \"",
"Is this how you make a living, repairing vintage arcade games?\" \"",
"It's a skill.\" \"",
"I know why he called you.\" \"",
"Because he knows what he did was wrong.\" \"",
"He's dead, murdered.\" \" ",
"What?\" \" ",
"Did you kill him?\" \"",
"These are very complex devices and it appears you have to machine many of the parts yourself.\" \"",
"If I was going to kill somebody, it would be The Ref.\" \"",
"He's the one that accepted Steve's crappy videotape as evidence of a perfect game.\" \" ",
"And this ref's name is...?\" \" ",
"Chris Ballinger.\" \"",
"He heads the Gemini Constellation, the organization that decides on world records for Punky Pong.\" \"",
"Right after Ref declared Steve world champion, they went into business together.\" \" ",
"What kind of business?\" \" ",
"Going out on tours, signing autographs.\" \"",
"The way I hear it, the Ref has hooked up with some babe and now he's doing better than ever.\" \"",
"Maybe he killed Rifton.\" \"",
"Excuse me.\" \"",
"There you are.\" \"",
"You got to get going.\" \"",
"Cam's looking for you.\" \" ",
"I got to set this tent up.\" \" ",
"This is good.\" \"",
"This is really good positioning, man.\" \" ",
"Not bad.\" \" ",
"You might want to step back.\" \"",
"Look out!\" \" ",
"You do this often?\" \" ",
"You got to come prepared.\" \"",
"Fresh Meat Tarts and a box of wine.\" \"",
"Have at it.\" \"",
"Nice.\" \"",
"Are you out of breath, Mr. Fisher?\" \"",
"No, I'm, I'm just thankful I'm breathing, you know.\" \"",
"Never know when that luxury will end.\" \"",
"So I examined the... marks on the pelvis.\" \"",
"They were made by... a hollow, rigid weapon,\" \"9.4 millimeters in diameter\" \"Was the same weapon used on the victim's skull?\" \"",
"That seems unlikely because the cranial injury was made by a blunt instrument, that left a 12-centimeter fracture\" \" right there.\" \" ",
"Any guess as to what it could be?\" \"",
"Not at all, no, but I did scrape what looks like metal shavings from both the cranial fracture and the... stab wounds on the pelvis.\" \"",
"Maybe Hodgins can find a match.\" \"",
"Very good, Mr. Fisher.\" \"",
"Right, I've always been a multitasker.\" \"",
"Multitasker?\" \"",
"What would be splitting your focus?\" \"",
"The head and the pelvis completely separate parts of the body.\" \"",
"Right.\" \"",
"Did Hodgins come back with you?\" \"",
"'Cause I haven't seen him.\" \"",
"Yeah, he should be out there.\" \"",
"I got to get back to work here, but he's check the men's room.\" \"",
"Or don't.\" \"",
"Good luck.\" \"",
"There is some excellent hand-eye coordination here.\" \"",
"This is an activity that could definitely be considered a sport.\" \"",
"Yeah, there's an intense competitive edge, skill...\" \" stamina.\" \" ",
"For something to be a sport, there has to be some chance of injury.\" \"",
"Okay, guys?\" \"",
"That man dressed in traditional stripes\" \" could be The Ref.\" \" ",
"Not that kind of ref, okay?\" \"",
"FBI.\" \"",
"What can I do for the FBI?\" \"",
"We'd like to ask you a few questions about Steve Rifton.\" \"",
"Well, I've got a few myself.\" \"",
"The guy just disappeared on me.\" \"",
"We had a business deal and he left me high and dry.\" \"",
"FBI, what, he wasn't kidnapped, was he?\" \"",
"He's dead, which is probably why he didn't keep his business commitment.\" \"",
"He's dead.\" \"",
"Man.\" \"",
"Yes!\" \"",
"Take that, Steve Rifton!\" \"",
"I am the reigning empress of Punky Pong.\" \"",
"She must be the babe who replaced Steve.\" \" ",
"You didn't waste any time, did you?\" \" ",
"I had business commitments with Steve.\" \"",
"I had to move quickly or I was going to lose a ton of dough.\" \" ",
"What's up, Chris?\" \" ",
"These people are with the FBI.\" \"",
"Plus, gamers are predominantly male, so a lot more are going to turn out to see her compete, right?\" \"",
"Sexist twerp, it's not about looks, it's about ability.\" \"",
"Steve is dead, Deirdre.\" \"",
"We are suspects, so you don't say a thing to them.\" \"",
"The front of this machine has been scrubbed.\" \"",
"What do you got?\" \" ",
"Blood.\" \" ",
"Okay, that's it.\" \"",
"The machine is coming with us.\" \"",
"It's part of a Federal investigation.\" \"",
"Did you sign this check, Mr. Ballinger?\" \"",
"It's made out to Steve Rifton.\" \"",
"$12,000-- that's a lot of money for an old arcade machine.\" \"",
"Steve not only got the world record in Punky Pong on that very machine, he got a perfect score.\" \"",
"What that machine is there, is a piece of gaming history.\" \"",
"Serious gamers will drop 50 bucks a pop to play on a unique piece of equipment like that...\" \" 100 if he was standing beside it.\" \" ",
"That is a conflict of interest...\" \"You decide if Rifton gets the world record and you profit from it.\" \"",
"You've been talking to Billy Gabel?\" \"",
"We got a tape proving that Steve Rifton won fair and square.\" \" ",
"Am I right?\" \" ",
"That's how we do it.\" \"",
"If you guys want it for verification...\" \"Fine...\" \"I'll hand it over.\" \"",
"Can you explain the blood on the machine?\" \"",
"Kids play the game.\" \"",
"They get anxious, hyper even.\" \"",
"Sometimes their noses bleed.\" \"",
"Sometimes they put a little sauce into it and they bash their heads.\" \"",
"Either way, I'm cleaning blood off the floor every day.\" \"",
"We had a business plan.\" \"",
"Why would I kill him?\" \"",
"I don't know, maybe he reneges, you take exception.\" \"",
"Heat of the moment, an accident.\" \"",
"I'm not like that.\" \"",
"Ask anybody.\" \"",
"What I am like is a guy who's smart enough to ask for a lawyer.\" \"",
"No problem.\" \"",
"What's with the formalwear?\" \"",
"Little light reading you got there.\" \"",
"What are you, like a first-year psychology student or something?\" \"",
"Sort of... not first-year, though.\" \"",
"I'm Lance.\" \"",
"Very phallic name you got there.\" \"",
"My name's Payne.\" \"",
"And if your name's as accurate as mine, then we should get better acquainted.\" \"",
"Well, that's...\" \"I have a girlfriend, I'm sorry.\" \"",
"So, I have a boyfriend, but he's not coming to this movie.\" \"",
"Is your girlfriend?\" \"",
"We're just talking, right?\" \" ",
"All be it somewhat suggestively.\" \" ",
"So, I'll change the subject.\" \"",
"Do you like my tattoos?\" \"",
"Very much.\" \"",
"I've always enjoyed calligraphy.\" \"",
"What is that, ten centimeters in length?\" \" ",
"Twelve.\" \" ",
"One of us needs to relieve Sweets.\" \"",
"I got to write a report up on this.\" \"",
"There's a lip here.\" \"",
"I'm thinking a smooth, rounded edge.\" \"",
"Sweets said he had an appointment he can't miss.\" \"",
"Follow me on this.\" \"",
"The mailman is delivering his package to the lady of the house, if you catch my drift, the husband comes home, finds the nearest blunt instrument, which is a cast iron frying pan.\" \"",
"And wham!\" \"",
"The postman who rang twice never rang again.\" \"",
"That totally works.\" \"",
"If the husband is a peacock wrangler who fights crickets after work in a Creeping Red\" \" Fescue field.\" \" ",
"Peacock?\" \"",
"What I thought was silk turns out to be the thread from the after-feather of a peacock.\" \"",
"Your particulates always ruining the day for me.\" \"",
"I'm gonna go relieve Sweets.\" \"",
"If anyone asks, tell them I'm.... defligisterizing Tachymosis Franklangellacum.\" \"",
"Is that a real thing?\" \"",
"Or are you just trying to be funny?\" \"",
"'Cause that didn't sound real.\" \"",
"At all.\" \"",
"This is Steve Rifton's winning tape.\" \" ",
"How many times have you watched this?\" \" ",
"I'm not watching it.\" \" ",
"I'm analyzing it.\" \" ",
"And?\" \"",
"Uninterrupted control track, which means no tampering.\" \"",
"The only thing you seeis the game playing.\" \"",
"No hands, no audio, just the screen.\" \"",
"For three hours.\" \"",
"This perfect game has been downloaded and watched hundreds of thousands of times by expert gaming eyes.\" \"",
"Not one anal-retentive, detail-oriented, paranoid geek is calling foul, so...\" \"Can I see the last part?\" \"",
"The last stage of the game is called the \"kill screen.\"\" \"",
"Three hours of his life to get to this point.\" \"",
"Flipping the monkey.\" \"",
"Wait... can you play that again?\" \"",
"What do you see?\" \"",
"The injuries the monkey suffers are the same as the victim's.\" \"",
"Oh, my God.\" \"",
"Sometimes I taste salt in my mouth when there isn't any.\" \"",
"What mental illness do I have?\" \"",
"Do you taste salt now?\" \"",
"You tell me.\" \" ",
"Who's your friend?\" \" ",
"This is Tory Payne.\" \"",
"This is Jack Hodgins.\" \"",
"I'm sorry, I should have called you.\" \"",
"There's a sudden opening in my schedule.\" \"",
"This doesn't have anything to do with Fisher's double digits?\" \"",
"Of course not.\" \"",
"That is not this situation.\" \"",
"You need anything, just call me.\" \"",
"No, I'm good.\" \"",
"We're good.\" \"",
"Salt.\" \"",
"Did the blood come from our victim?\" \"",
"It seems to have come from a number of people, and it's been totally degraded by a liquid.\" \" ",
"What liquid?\" \" ",
"Mostly cola.\" \"",
"Here's the mikrosil cast of the wound, Dr. Brennan.\" \"",
"I don't see any protuberances on the machine that correspond to the shape of the wound.\" \"",
"Also, no sign of crickets, grass seed or peacock feathers.\" \"",
"The particulates Dr. Hodgins found.\" \"",
"Those particulates were found in the head wound?\" \"",
"Is there anything on this machine that could explain the groin wound?\" \"",
"There's an access panel at groin level.\" \" ",
"I don't see anything.\" \" ",
"Shall I get an ALS?\" \"",
"I don't see how something could pop out of there, stab our victim and then withdraw again.\" \" ",
"Are you all right?\" \" ",
"That was dumb.\" \"",
"I just jammed my hand against the bottom of the control stick.\" \"",
"The dimensions and the shape are very similar to the marks on the victim's pelvis.\" \"",
"This isn't long enough to pass through the abdominal wall and the intestines.\" \"",
"Billy Gabel had a whole supply of this piping at his workshop.\" \"",
"Uncut.\" \"",
"Hey, Pong Boy.\" \"",
"Now what?\" \"",
"Get your hands off everything.\" \"",
"Got a search warrant.\" \"",
"Are you guys following me?\" \"",
"Some babe, Billy?\" \" ",
"You knew her all along.\" \" ",
"I'm not allowed to fix my game?\" \"",
"Billy's the only one with first-generation Qbert parts.\" \"",
"It seems to me that you two had reason to get rid of Steve.\" \"",
"I didn't have to kill him.\" \"",
"I got a nice rack, a cute ass, and can wipe out anyone at Punky Pong.\" \"",
"Right, except for Steve, which is why you two teamed up.\" \"",
"She's just here for parts.\" \"",
"These are the types of piping congruent with the wounds on Fisher's hand and the victim's groin.\" \"",
"Pipe.\" \"",
"Okay, bag that.\" \"",
"Bag the pipe.\" \"",
"An actual shrink.\" \"",
"That is so so hot.\" \"",
"But you know my profession doesn't really preclude me from my fascination with sci-fi and fantasy.\" \"",
"Really?\" \"",
"Does this tent zipper have a lock on it?\" \"",
"There's no kind of privacy here...\" \"Gosh, you really have fleet fingers.\" \" ",
"I've got a girlfriend.\" \" ",
"Yeah, so you said.\" \"",
"That shouldn't have happened.\" \" ",
"Why did that happen?\" \" ",
"I know, it's like that one scene in Mimic where you're in a hot kiss one minute, and then the next, you're getting your brain sucked out by a mutant.\" \"",
"I'm sorry, I got to make a call.\" \"",
"Would it help you get over this whole girlfriend thing if maybe you saw my tattoos again?\" \"",
"Where are you guys?\" \"",
"I need backup.\" \"",
"You told me to get lost, so now,\" \"I got to test the tensile strength of the...\" \"Please, I need to be released.\" \"",
"Relieved.\" \"",
"Please.\" \"",
"Sorry, Doctor.\" \"",
"Oh, and save me a Meat Tart.\" \"",
"Bye now!\" \"",
"That was...\" \"Emergency, family emergency.\" \"",
"This could be an anomaly of the scaphoid.\" \"",
"Magnify that, please.\" \"",
"Looks like resorption.\" \" ",
"What could have caused that?\" \" ",
"A cyst.\" \"",
"The victim had De Quervain's tenosynovitis... a painful condition caused by extreme stress on the wrist.\" \" ",
"Which means?\" \" ",
"Billy Gabel was correct.\" \"",
"Steve Rifton must have cheated.\" \"",
"On the date the videotape was made, he would not be capable of playing the game.\" \"",
"Brennan found five types of piping of the same dimensions...\" \"Aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel and copper.\" \"",
"I'm testing to see if any of them shatter under pressure.\" \"",
"Well, so far, they just bend.\" \"",
"Tensile strength is 760 megapascals.\" \"",
"So far, I've tried torsion, impact, and got nothing more than bending and denting.\" \"",
"So, the pelvic injuries couldn't have been caused by the piping we found in Billy's workshop.\" \"",
"I'm tattooed on your arm.\" \"",
"We're looking for a more brittle substance.\" \"",
"Ange, it's not what you think.\" \"",
"What I think is that there's a very large tattoo of me that's indelibly affixed to your skin.\" \"",
"I'm going to flee right now.\" \"",
"I didn't do it.\" \"",
"Wait a minute.\" \"",
"My dad?\" \"",
"My father did that to you?\" \"",
"Let's just say, I think he was trying to prove a point.\" \"",
"I am so going to kick his Texan bad ass.\" \"",
"You...\" \"You need to get that removed.\" \" ",
"Why?\" \" ",
"Because we are not together anymore, and I don't want you sweating all over my face, and I-I...\" \"You need to get that lasered.\" \"",
"Why are you avoiding me?\" \"",
"Doctor, it's just sex.\" \"",
"I know, it's just the combination of Meat Tarts and boxed wine has gotten me a little queasy.\" \"",
"Sorry.\" \"",
"You okay?\" \"",
"Yeah, I'm fine.\" \"",
"Everything's fine.\" \" ",
"This is Fisher.\" \" ",
"Are you a shrink, too?\" \"",
"Forensic anthropologist.\" \"",
"He works with the dead.\" \"",
"The dead?\" \" ",
"Really?\" \" ",
"What can I say?\" \"",
"I can relate to the boundary between this existence and whatever screaming, cold hell comes next.\" \"",
"Do you want to see my tattoos?\" \"",
"I love that poem.\" \"",
"I analyzed the game's chip.\" \"",
"Since the programming is from the '80s, it's pretty basic, but still...\" \"One would certainly need to be in command of their rapid cycling beta level, as well as being exceptionally dexterous.\" \"",
"Which, according to you, Steve Rifton was not.\" \"",
"The computer has played a perfect game.\" \"",
"So, this is the second time that this machine was played to the perfect game.\" \"",
"The first time was Steve Rifton's perfect game.\" \"",
"If Steve Rifton played a perfect game, he had to have done it before he developed tenosynovitis.\" \"",
"That makes sense.\" \"",
"Can you pull up the videotape showing this perfect game?\" \"",
"Could you freeze it, please?\" \"",
"What do you see?\" \"",
"These are not the same machine.\" \"",
"Sweetie, these look identical.\" \"",
"No, see here?\" \"",
"This banana has exposed central and lateral incisors as well as a white section of peeled epicarp.\" \"",
"The teeth and the peel?\" \"",
"Who would notice that?\" \"",
"Me.\" \"",
"I'm extraordinarily observant.\" \"",
"So, this is the same machine that was in the photo.\" \"",
"But not the same one as in the videotape.\" \"",
"See?\" \"",
"No incisors and yellow epicarp section.\" \"",
"Steve Rifton cheated.\" \"",
"He didn't play the winning game on this machine.\" \"",
"What other machine do you think he had access to?\" \"",
"Dougie Seeger's.\" \"",
"The autistic boy.\" \"",
"This is Dougie's machine.\" \"",
"This is the one that The Ref bought from our murder victim.\" \"",
"We have photographic evidence that our victim actually played a perfect game on his own machine.\" \" ",
"Maybe the photo there is doctored?\" \" ",
"Angela says no.\" \"",
"Who wants to know about peacock poop?\" \"",
"Not the greatest opening, but...\" \"I was looking at this thing all wrong.\" \"",
"I kept asking myself, how do feathers, graminoid seeds, and insect legs get onto the same blunt weapon?\" \"",
"That is exactly the question we need answered.\" \"",
"Sometimes peacock feathers are in peacock poop because they preen themselves.\" \"",
"The Indian Blue Peacock, to be precise.\" \"",
"The murder weapon was dipped in Indian Blue Peacock excrement.\" \" ",
"Pavo cristatus.\" \" ",
"Why would the murderer dip his weapon into peacock excrement?\" \"",
"What if he didn't do it on purpose?\" \"",
"Check this out.\" \"",
"The only two places with Indian Blue Peacock are the United States Botanic Gardens and the Annapolis Valley Golf Course.\" \"",
"The murder weapon could have been a golf club.\" \"",
"That would also explain the crickets and fescue.\" \"",
"Let's see which one of our suspects golfs at Annapolis Valley.\" \"",
"Who deserves a little love here, huh?\" \"",
"A little love?\" \"",
"Just a...\" \"If that's all, I've really gotta go.\" \"",
"King of the Lab!\" \"",
"Why are you standing over here?\" \"",
"What?\" \"",
"So, he pitched his tent when you didn't?\" \"",
"If by \"pitch his tent,\" you mean...\" \" That's what he did.\" \" ",
"It's not a toy!\" \"",
"He said that in the short amount time that I've been with Daisy, he pitched his tent with seven women.\" \"",
"Yeah, but, come on.\" \"",
"Fisher, he only ever pitches his tent once with each woman.\" \"",
"You... you're the kind of guy, you don't just pitch a tent, you homestead the land.\" \"",
"So he's the rock star and I'm the farmer?\" \"",
"That's great.\" \"",
"Sweets, let's do the math here, okay?\" \"",
"Fisher's seven women versus your one Daisy.\" \"",
"Seven one-night stands, let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and say that he's had sex, what?\" \"",
"21 times.\" \"",
"Now, rough estimate... how many times have you and Daisy pitched a tent?\" \"",
"Daisy and I are together approximately five nights a week, so that's ten times a week, over seven months, you add in the mornings...\" \"Silent math.\" \"",
"You got a number?\" \"",
"Don't... tell me.\" \" ",
"Is it more than 21?\" \" ",
"It's way more than 21.\" \"",
"Quality of the experience... it's much more important than the quantity.\" \"",
"Everybody get your tickets out!\" \"",
"We are going in.\" \"",
"Everybody step in!\" \"",
"Should we tell Fisher we're going in?\" \"",
"Screw him.\" \"",
"But he's going to miss the movie.\" \"",
"Serves him right.\" \"",
"If you were in my shoes, you would've gone for it, wouldn't you?\" \"",
"You kidding me?\" \" ",
"Did you see those tattoos?\" \" ",
"Oh, epic.\" \"",
"Oh!\" \"",
"There we go!\" \"",
"Why do you want my golf clubs?\" \"",
"I mean, you're a member of Annapolis Valley, right?\" \"",
"For three years.\" \"",
"My golf clubs are in here somewhere.\" \"",
"I don't get out there as much as I'd like.\" \"",
"Dougie stands there, waiting for his machine.\" \"",
"I'd like to get it back as soon as possible.\" \"",
"You're very cooperative.\" \"",
"Graphite shafts.\" \"",
"These would snap.\" \"",
"We're looking for a broken shaft.\" \" ",
"It would explain the stabbing wound.\" \" ",
"Any of them damaged?\" \"",
"None of these is the murder weapon.\" \"",
"You think I killed the postman?\" \"",
"Why would I do that?\" \"",
"Perhaps it's a coincidence that\" \"Mr. Seeger is a member of that golf.\" \"",
"Perhaps we should check out the possibilities at the Botanic Garden.\" \"",
"Where's your three iron?\" \" ",
"Never needed one.\" \" ",
"What... three iron?\" \"",
"A course like Annapolis... you would definitely need a three iron.\" \"",
"So, where is it?\" \"",
"My son only ever had one thing.\" \"",
"One thing his whole life.\" \"",
"Dougie can't even speak.\" \"",
"Do you understand?\" \"",
"He looks at me or my wife, there's no glimmer of recognition.\" \"",
"But that machine...\" \"It turns on, makes that noise.\" \"",
"And he gets this look on his face.\" \"",
"Maybe you wouldn't notice it in a regular kid, but I know what it is.\" \"",
"It's joy.\" \"",
"And this guy, this-this mailman, he watches Dougie play a perfect game.\" \"",
"And then, next thing you know, he's on TV, saying he played the perfect game.\" \"",
"It's a miracle.\" \"",
"That's too much of a coincidence for me.\" \"",
"You accosted him with your own golf club.\" \"",
"You scared him into telling the truth.\" \"",
"He admitted it.\" \"",
"He said he videotaped Dougie.\" \"",
"But he refused to credit Dougie.\" \" ",
"I lost it.\" \" ",
"You beat him... with your golf club and when the head broke off, you stabbed him with it.\" \"",
"The only thing my boy has in this world... one thing... this man stole it from him.\" \"",
"It wasn't right.\" \"",
"It's not as crazy as you think.\" \"",
"I'm a father, so I sort of understand.\" \"",
"I can't imagine you killing someone for stealing credit from Parker.\" \"",
"Not kill someone, but... threaten 'em.\" \"",
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"\n\nSpeaking at the event, Rabin’s daughter Dalia warned that the schisms that divided Israel at the time and led to her father’s killing are still in evidence in Israel’s public discourse.",
"\n\nGet The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up\n\n“This murder was terrible. ",
"It is an open wound for us in the family, but it is also an open wound for our nation,” she said at the ceremony.",
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"I believe that there is always a key – it is about following the lead of your child.",
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"\n\nWe operate on the principle that children on the spectrum and children with neurological differences can learn, succeed and thrive. ",
"They can grow up to have jobs, careers and love; relegating them to the margins of society robs us of some of our best human resources. ",
"We embrace who these children are, and do not try to coerce them into being something they are not. ",
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"Arabella’s daughter Iris Grace was born in 2009 and their lives changed forever. ",
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"I feel that my game now is technically and mechanically sound but mentally, I expected to mature a lot. ",
"I’m still learning a lot and I’m trying my best to stay in the moment and keep improving.”",
"\n\nXiong was selected to represent the USA in the Walker Cup last year, helping the USA defeat Great Britain and Ireland 19-7. ",
"He was the youngest player selected for the team, at 18 years old, and he excelled, going 3-0-1 in his four matches.",
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"It’s was the 10 best amateurs in the USA and in Europe as well, so if you accomplish being picked for that team, there’s not much left in amateur golf. ",
"It was amazing to play with all of those guys that are much more experienced than I am. ",
"To see how they handled it and to see how they performed was really special. ",
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"It was definitely the biggest tournament that I’d played in. ",
"It was my biggest goal and I accomplished it.”",
"\n\nXiong said he expects to make a big step this spring, and while he admits that plan could change, he’s said he’s preparing himself to enjoy what may possibly be his final year at Oregon.",
"\n\n“My plan in going to college, was hopefully turning pro through the experiences that I gained there,” Xiong said. “",
"I’m planning to turn pro this spring, but anything can still happen. ",
"It’s very close to the summer, so I’m gearing up for that, but I’m still trying to enjoy everything I have here before I go on to the next step.”",
"\n\nIf he should take that step, he is clear on his goals and expectations of the experience.",
"\n\n“I expect it to be different than college in that it’ll be a totally new environment, a new atmosphere and lifestyle even,” Xiong explained. “",
"My goal is to play golf, and the best golf that I can. ",
"My expectation is to learn as much as I can, and develop throughout the year through the experience.”",
"\n\nXiong’s uncle James has been a big influence in his life, and he said that in that next step, his uncle will join him on the journey.",
"\n\n“He’s going to be my coach,” Xiong said. “",
"He’s not as much a swing coach, he’s more of a mentor who sticks around me and guides me through everything, which is what he’s been doing my whole life for me. ",
"When I was getting ready to leave for college in my senior year of high school, he let me be so I could learn on my own, which I think was really smart of him. ",
"My job this past year was to experience college on my own, and take what I’ve learned from him and try to allow myself to mature. ",
"As I go into the new stage of turning pro, we plan to bring that team back together.”",
"\n\nMeanwhile, Xiong is still focused on learning and improving. ",
"There have been multiple players he has looked up to since he got to Eugene in the college ranks, and he has learned to appreciate what other players bring to the table.",
"\n\n“I hadn’t seen Maverick (McNealy) play until last year,” Xiong said. “",
"I had heard of him, and I knew who he was, but I played with him for the first time at Pac 12’s last year. ",
"I look up to him not only as a player, but as a person, and with his mental game. ",
"He’s really smart on the course. ",
"Aaron Wise has been someone that I look up to a lot with his mental game as well. ",
"He’s really focused. ",
"The players around me now whom I’m most impressed by are Collin (Morikawa) and Matthew (Wolfe). ",
"They have really impressive games and I think they could translate really well to the tour. ",
"Wyndham (Clark) and Aaron have given me a brief idea of what it’s like. ",
"There’s a lot of travel, so I have to prepare for that. ",
"I’m excited for the next level.”",
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"North Canton, Stark County, Ohio), 1937-04-21\n\n1937-04-21-001\n\nr\nALL THE REAL NEWS AND SPECIAL\nFEATURES CAREFULLY EDITED\nBEAD BY BRIGHT PEOPLE\nAn Independent Newspaper That Plays No Favorites Among Advertisers or Subscribers, and With One Price To AH\nVOL. ",
"15—NO. ",
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"\nNORTH CANTON, STARK COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937—EIGHT PAGES\nIT SHINES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN\nNORTHERN STARK COUNTY\nREAD BY BRIGHT PEOPLE\nS1.00 PER YEAR.",
"\nBASEBALL TEAMS ARE!",
"\nROUNDING INTO FORM!",
"\n. - ",
"|\nMembers of Church League, In\nWhich Are Many Good Players, Are In the Park Every\nDay Getting Into Shape For\nthe Opening Game Scheduled\nFor Tuesday, May 4.",
"\nPRACTICE PLAY APRIL 27\nTold Without i LIBRARY PATRONAGE :TfteJW£s Pap^\nVarnish by Ben Long! ",
"WAS HEAVY IN MARCH \\ IntffiSiTpeople Have;\nnn.' ",
"7* 7 T- . ",
"J i Confidence in The Sun.i\nWhen a Man Is Tired : Report of Miss Cooper, the Li-\nMembers of St. Paul's, Zion Reformed and The Community Christian\nDISCUSSING the death of a distinguished editor in New York\nlast week a columnist of the\nBroadway gossip type remarked that\n\"No one who has ever known cily\nlooms and news and reporters can\nreally take much interest in apples or\napple trees.\"",
"\nHis statement helps 'to sustain the I\nadage that all generalizations are |\n_ false. ",
"The writer of Told Without !",
"\nj Varnish, in his somewhat protracted j\nI career, has known several city edi- i j\ni tors of the thoroughly hard-boiled | Thc report which Bliss Cooper, lhe I\ntype who were, on occasion, very fond I librarian, submitted this week to the j\nc u •-.. i * r> ii They Know It Respects j I.,_\nbrarian, Submitted to Board I J ^ \\ '••'-*\nof Trustees, Shows'That 4643 itself and Its Readers.",
"\nBooks, Periodicals, Pamphlets\nand Pictures Were Circulated\nDuring the Month.",
"\nART DISPLAY ATTRACTS\nSee Inside Pages\nIn The Sun Today\nFor Special Features\nAs The Sun Sees If\nWifhout Prejudice\nWhy People Are Cheerful\nRESIDENTS of Ohio\nEn\nchurches have, as all readers of The 0f the shade of the old apple trie. ' ",
"Board of Trustees of the Noil\nSun know, an organized church league . ",
"The turmoil, the vertiginous action, ton Library, showed that 46M3\nand the league is going to play real (.]le swift decisions, the whirl of ■ -• - •\nbaseball this Spring and summer. ! ",
"crimes and accidents of a daily news-\nRight now the young men in the\nleague are out in the open getting\ninto shape for practice games on\nApril 27 and April 30.",
"\nThe regular schedule starts on May\n4. ",
"John McLean, president of the\nleague, will hold several meetings between now and the opening to clear up\nrules and other things that will help\nin governing the league,, such as umpire, ground rules, equipment, style\nof ball, etc.",
"\nNo doubt Glenn Schiltz, Jr.'s Reformed Church team will battle\nagainst Bob Swope's Christians on\nApril 27 and Cletus Moledor's huskies will tangle with some good team\non Friday, April 30.",
"\nTlie X-club team is now ready for\ngames with Junior teanis of this vicinity. ",
"Call the Community Building,\nNorth Canton 9500.",
"\nSoftball Diamonds\nFeeling there will be a need for\nmore Softball diamonds this year, the\nCommunity Building is leveling off\nand putting into shape two full-sized\ndiamonds on the football ground for\nuse this season. ",
"This with two in Wit-\n-wer park should give an outlet to the\nnumber of teams in the games this\nseason.",
"\nOrganize Tennis Club\nTennis courts will be in shape for\nplay within another, week for those (next moment a wedding, now a scan-\nwho care to get an early start. ",
"The ' dal and now an idyll, now watchin\npaper city room are by no means incompatible with bucolic tastes on the\npart of the men in them.",
"\nOne of the most intensely concentrated of city editors that this writer\never knew, on a certain New York\npaper, was in his hours off duty a\ncultivator of prize onions in New\nJersey. ",
"That state contains many\nmen engaged in journalism in New\nYork city and Philadelphia and hundreds of them prefer the shade of the\nold apple tree to a night club. ",
"As a\nmatter of truth, very few newspaper\nmen go to night clubs of their own\nfree will. ",
"They consider it beneath\ntheir dignity to be seen in such places,\nand then the old crack heard in news\nrooms, \"So he's become a member of\nthe Sucker Brigade and spends his\npennies in night clubs?\" ",
"has stayed\nthe feet of many young reporters.",
"\nV •£ •£\nTHE celebrated SeJah M. Clarke,\nlong renowned as night editor of\nthe old New York Sun, died about\nsix years ago while sitting under an\napple tree in his Canandaigu orchard.",
"\nAnd he knew more about \"Little Old\nNew York\" than the Broadway gossip columnists will ever know.",
"\nDealing in contrasts all his life—\nnow under his hand a tragedy and the\nth Can\nbooks,\nperiodicals, pamphlets and pictures\nwere circulated during the month of\nMarch.",
"\nTeachers are taking advantage of\nthe collection of pictures at the library to obtain the loan of groups of\npictures to illustrate the subject being studied. ",
"In March the largest call\nwas for pictures of Indians.",
"\nStudents Show Talent\nThere were forty pupils from the\ngrade schools who entered the contest\nfor the reproduction of pictures in the\nart display at the library and thirty-\ntwo completed their work. ",
"This week\nthe pupils from the high school are\nworking and next week the reproductions will be mounted, placed on display and the winners announced.",
"\nMany of the students show marked\ntalent.",
"\nCAMPING TRIPS\nclub is .being organized and will take\nover in the near future\nCOUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL\nNorth Canton To Be Represented In\nCanton On May 1.",
"\nThe North Canton glee clubs and\norchestra are working on their part\nof the program for the county music\nfestival to be held at Canton City auditorium on Saturday evening, May 1.",
"\nThose persons who attended the program last year, will appreciate that\nthis is one of the biggest things done\nby the schools throughout the year.",
"\nHE SPMSTpIGHT\nHarry C. Herman Will Tell What He\nSaw In India.",
"\nTo\nits\na yacht race or a boxing match, now\ninvestigating tong warfare in the hidden gloom of a Chinese slum—the\nman on the staff of a big daily becomes a connoisseur of contrasts, and\noften loves to introduce them into his\nown life. ",
"For his holiday, he probably goes window shopping, but he always winds up under the shade of the\nold apple tree. ",
"Above all, he likes j\nsolitude—for a while.",
"\nIn his active years the passion for\nthe hullaballoo of the city news room\nmay return. ",
"For a month he may be\nJiappy among the noise and bustle.",
"\nBut when his. ",
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"That\nis why he favors the old apple tree.",
"\n* * *\nY readers understand that the ex-\nM\nCommunity Building Prepared\nTake Boys On Trip.",
"\nNext week The Sun will tell\nreaders all about the Community\nBuilding educational camping trips.",
"\nDwight Harsh says the schedule for\nthe summer vacations has been made\nup, and boys will be given an opportunity to sign for the trips.",
"\nSo see Dwight in the Community\nBuilding ami then prepare for the\ngreat adventure over mountains,\nthrough valleys and amid forests.",
"\nmee™empress\nhazel richards\nMiss Hazel Richards, daughter of\nMr. and Mrs. Art Richards of North\nCanton, finished the season for North\nCanton Dairies iii Class A Bowling-\nleague with an average of 179 for 72\ngames. ",
"She played against the best\nCanton had to offer.",
"\nSo frequently has Hazel \"been\ncrowned Queen of the Bowlers that\nit is becoming monotonous, so The\nSun takes the liberty of raising her\ntitle. ",
"From now on she is \"The\nEmpress.\"",
"\nLord Beaconsfield made Queen Victoria Empress of India, and Benito\nMussolini created King Humbert Emperor of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). ",
"So\nThe Sun feels it is on safe ground in\nraising the titles of royalty.",
"\nARE MAKING GOOD\nResidents of North Canton Active In\nCollege Life At Hiram.",
"\nSpecial to The Sun\nHiram, Ohio, April 21—Miss Lillian\nShook, Richard Hurlburt, and Karl\nand Preston Kidder, all of North Canton,- are singing with the A Cappella\nChoir of Hiram college on its eastern\nconcert tour.",
"\nThe choir, which has achieved a\nreputation among college musical organizations, is composed of forty-four\nmen and girls performing under the\ndirection of George R. Howerton. ",
"It\nappeared in Erie, Pa., under the sponsorship of the Erie Day School on\nApril 12; at the Eastern Music Educators' Conference in the Hotel Stat-\nler, Buffalo, on Thursday afternoon,\nApril 15, and at a Buffalo high school\nthe following morning.",
"\nOther cocnerts were given in Albion, N. Y., on Friday evening at the\nPresbyterian church, and at the East\nAurora high school on Saturday evening, sponsored by the East Aurora\nhigh school glee club. ",
"The tour ended\nwith a concert in the Willard Straight\nhall of Cornell university in Ithaca,\nN. Y., on Sunday afternoon, April IS.",
"\nAll four of the North Canton students are active in the social and academic life at Hiram. ",
"Miss Shook, who\nis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John\nL. Shook, 334 E. Maple, has been\nelected president of the central board,\nwomen's self-government organization.",
"\nRichard Hurlburt, son of Mr. and\nMrs. G. W. Hurlburt, 218 Hower\nstreet, also sings in the men's glee\nclub for which he is business manager.",
"\nPreston Kidder, son of Mr. 0. ",
"P.\nKidder, 507 McKinley street, has been\nactive in school publications. ",
"His\nbrother Karl entered Hiram as a\nfreshman this year.",
"\nnot of New\nngland descent, may wonder\nj why Massachusetts, New Hamp\nshire, Vermont and Maine observe\ni certain days as holidays. ",
"Fast day\n! ",
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"Governor Francis 1'.",
"\n! ",
"Murphy sets Thursday, April 22 (lo-\nj morrow), as this year's date.",
"\nIn his proclamation, as Th* Sun\nread it in the Dailv Union ofvMun- !",
"\nREAL OLD-TIMERS IN\nGREEN TOWNSHIP\nSUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO\nChester, he recalls that from earliest ._",
"\ntimes there has been a day of fasting ! ",
"admonition\nand prayer in the Spring. ",
"But where j prayei-.",
"\nare the gloom and the fear of evils I The governor's proclamation gives\nto come that were associated with | Now Hampshire a Spring holiday. ",
"It\nFast day in \"the good old times?\" ",
"| is called Fast day, but a Spring holi-\nFast day this year, as the New j -'\"- ' -■.*.-- -•-. .. ",
"o....:..._\nHampshire governor envisions it, is |\nfire nnd brimstone doctrine turn in\nhit* grave. ",
"Fast day as he knew it\nwas not dedicated to the sunshine and\nthe merriment of tho Springtime.",
"\nConsiderations such as these are '\nnot likely, however, to ho uppermost |\nin the minds ol the New Hampshire )\nfolk as they observe their holiday. ",
"|\nThere will be much of feasting and j\nlittle ol' fasting. ",
"Without disrespect | •\nto Governor Murphy il_ may be sug-:RECAUj nyIL WAR 1)Ays\nNames Furnished Thc Sun I5y\nI(s Correspondent, Mrs. Sol\nHartong- of Greensburg, Who\nHas Written For Newspapers\nFor 15 Years, and Is Today\nActive Menially and Physically At the Age oi' 81.",
"\n/jested that ho will not follow* his own |\nnd let hunger wait on\nan occasion for great gladness and assurance of a happy future. ",
"He says\nthat \"we can look forward without\nworry and with heartening anticipation to days of greater happiness than\nwe have ever known.\" ",
"His statement\nis enough to make the Fast day\npreacher of the past with his hell-\nMANY VISIT SCHOOL\nArts\nan old newspaper expression. ",
"It\nis used to show that a ■ large number of newspaper writers prefer to i\nsaunter around by themselves in out\nof the way places. ",
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"SYLVAN GARMAN DIED\nerland, Louis Megargee, and others !",
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"muJI 1 \"*\" mvumiiu\nPaine was just back from China, i „ . . , „ _., _, _, . .",
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",will be the speaker\nthis Wednesday evening- at dinner at\n6:00 in the Community Building. ",
"He\nwill talk about the people of India as\nhe actually saw them, and according\nto C. B. Williams, \"he will have\nsomething to say you can take home\nwith you.\"",
"\nAt 7:30 Mr. Herman will speak to\nthe Girl Reserves.",
"\nTickets to the dinner cost 40 cents,\nand if you have no previous engagement this is an opportunity to feed\nyour intellect and. ",
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"Like the rest of us,\nhe was weary of his own workshop\nand wanted a little diversion, and he\nfound it. ",
"A few years later he was\non his way to Russia to cover the\nRussian-Jap scrap.",
"\nI have heard people say that the\nSylvan W. Garman of Mt,\ndied this Wednesday morning at 4\no'clock in Aultman hospital, where he\nhad been receiving treatment after an\nattack of pneumonia six weeks ago.",
"\nHe was taken to the hospital two\nweeks ago for X-ray and a probable\ntransfusion.",
"\nHe is survived by his wife Margaret; one son Warren of the home;\nhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gar-\ni man of- North Main street, North\nmd a sister, Mrs. Paul Al-\nStyle Show and Industrial\nInterest Parents.",
"\nThe response made to the home economics and industrial arts demonstration and exhibit on Friday, April l(i,\nwas very encouraging. ",
"Quite a number of parents visited the classes in\nthe afternoon. ",
"There was a style\nshow put on by the home economics\ngirls. ",
"These parents were served tea\nby the home economics girls following the modeling of the dresses they\nhad made.",
"\nIn the evening while no classes\nj were in session the style show was\n' well attended by one hundred twenty-\ni five or one hundred fifty parents and\n! ",
"friends.",
"\ni The boys at their industrial arts ex-\ni hibits reported that they had between\ni one hundred-twenty-five and one hundred forty parents and friends who\n', were in to see the work. ",
"For both ex-\n. ",
"hibits there were people from out of\ntown who were interested in home\neconomics and industrial arts work\n■ who were present. ",
"The school is very\n; much gratified at the interest shown\nin this work.",
"\nSTORE HOURS\nWill Close Thursday Afternoon At\nOne o'clock During May, June,\nJuly and August.",
"\n[Paid Advertising]\nThe following places of business\nin North Canton agree to close at\none o'clock each Thursday afternoon during May, June, July and\nAugust.",
"\nAcme Grocery Store.",
"\nAtlantic and Pacific Tea Co.\nCrawfords.",
"\nStrausser's Meat Market\nSchiltz Shoe Repairing\nA. A. Hummel & Sons\nMays Barber Shop\nNorth Canton Supply\nW. J. Hug, Meat Market\nNorth Canton Cleaners\nHurley Smith Grocery\nSmith Barber Shop\nWill\nLACK OF HOUSES\nNeed More In*-North Canton To Accommodate the Public.",
"\nIt is a well known fact that a number of persons would like to reside in j ^This\"group\\^X\\¥Te\"^ookrnn\"f,','\nday by any other name is a Spring\nholiday just the same, when the countryside beckons and city parks give\npromise of the summer; when there is\nwarmth in the sunshine and the days\nin their lengthening have passed more\nthan half way from the shortest in\nDecember to the longest in Juno; and\nwhen people in general are in the\ncheerful mood of thc season.",
"\nicixsloiiTTEEs\nMrs. C. W. Traut Wants To Perfect\nPlans On Thursday Evening For\nMother-Daughter Banquet.",
"\nMrs. C. W. Traut has called a committee meeting for 7:30 on Thursday\nevening in the Community Building\nfor all representative committees from\nthe churches of the community and\nthe Woman's club social committee.",
"\nPlans are to be made for the\nmother-daughter banquet to be held\non May 17, in the Community Building.",
"\nAll mothers and daughters of tlw\ncommunity aro invited.",
"\nTickets may be purchased at the\nCommunity Building.",
"\nThe members of the social commit.",
"\nI I 1111.- j \"j - .",
"\ntee of the Woman's club are: Mrs. , %ei' ,W°Rle'\\ u\nC. B. Riggs, Mrs. Allen Schneider, i Uv\" \",u\" h\nMrs. Charles Schafer, Mrs. Raymond\nSwope, Miss Harriet Givler, Mrs.\nGlen Wise, Mrs. H. P. Bierie, Mrs.\nW. M. Harding and Mrs. P. C. Cum-\nmings.",
"\nOther committees will be named at\na later date.",
"\nFor fifteen years Mrs. Sol (Mary)\nHartong has been sending each week\na bright budget of news to The Sun\nfrom her home town, Greensburg. ",
"and\nfor 45 years she has written for the\nTimes-Press of. ",
"Akron. ",
"She was S'4\nyears of age in March.",
"\nThe following names were furnished\nThe Sun by Mrs. Hartong.",
"\nNames of persons who are residents\nof Green township, Summit county,\nOhio, SO years or over. ",
"June 1, 1D36.",
"\nJohn Sweitzer, Sophia Foust,\nEmanuel Franks, Edward L. Burkett,\nj Wilson Spitler, George Sweitser, Sa-\nj villa Daily, Helkiah Hill, John Green-\n; ho, J. Wesley Buchman, Solomon\nj Hartong, Mary Hartong, a resident\n1 for 01 years and correspondent for\nthe Times-Press 45 years, and The\nSun of North Canton for J 5 years.",
"\nShe was 84 in March.",
"\nPersons 70 and Over\nNames of persons who are 70 years\nor over, residents of Green township,\nSummit county, Ohio, and residents\nnow.",
"\nFred Kline, Nathaniel Weaver, Samuel Weaver, Monroe Weaver, Hiram\nWeaver, John Ream, George Fosnight,\nByron C. Shriver, Rose Shriver, Jacob\nBetler, Emma Betler, Henry Steese,\nKate Steese, Mary Oberlin, Ella Stephens, Louise Bender, Andrew Sweitser, Daniel Vandersall, Samuel Smith,\nMary Stake, Henry Koons, Mrs. Oli-\nGIRL SWIMMERS\nGo To Akron Y On Saturday\nFor a Little Practice.",
"\nGirls' swimming team will make the\njourney to Akron Y for a swim on\nSaturday, April 24, hoping to get a\nrunning start for the season's activities. ",
"Dorothy McClelland is captain\nNorth Canton but are unable to do so\nbecause they can not rent houses.",
"\nReal estate men and others interested in the development of the town\nhave been urging that a number of\nhouses be erected to accommodate\nthose seeking homes here. ",
"They say\nthe houses could be rented without\nany trouble.",
"\nher team mates to be on hand.",
"\nCHRISTIAN JEW WILL\nSPEAK HERE, SUNDAY\ngreatest heartache is to be alone in | Canton\na great city. ",
"It never seemed that | ]ell\nway to me. ",
"Libraries, art galleries, j Ful-eral arrangements were not\nstore windows and crowds of people— , complete at the time The Sun went\nwell, I never tire ot them, but to | ^0 pi-ess aj_ noon.",
"\nWOMEN IN THE GYM\nAfter Six Weeks' Work They Decide\nTo Stay In the Game.",
"\nThe women's gym class ended their\nsix weeks gym season on Friday with\nnine present. ",
"Fifteen enrolled in the i\ni class. ",
"Thc average attendance was\n! ",
"between eight to thirteen each time. ',",
"\nI Those in the class were: Mrs. Howe, '\n! ",
"Mrs. Reeder, Mrs. Hupp, Mrs. Elson.",
"\n1 Mrs. Feightner, Mrs. Blatti, Mrs.\n■ Traut, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Rice, Mrs. j\nNorlh Canton Has Eight Members On : prrow\"t, Mrs Bierie, Mrs McMillan,\n,. „ . „. , ",
"Mrs. Frye. ",
"Mrs. Tavlor, Mrs. Stahl,\nthe County learn. , .,„,, ",
"Mrs_ Go.m, Mrs ^owe he)(, a\nOn Saturday, April 17, twenty-nine ' perfect attendance record from Feb-\nstudents of the North Canton high 1 ruary 24 to April 17.",
"\nThe group plans to go swimming j\nalso taking\nRev. Oscar Wago To Be in Zion\nLutheran Church Morning\nand Evening.",
"\nSCHOLARSHIP TEST\nthoroughly enjoy them I want to be\nby myself, and I call it \"Loafing\naround the old apple tree.\"",
"\nSold Auto; Rented Garage\nEditors The Sun: Please cancel my\nads in the People's Column. ",
"I have\nsold the automobile and rented the\ngarage. ",
"JOHN S. SURBEY,\n40S McKinley street, North Canton.",
"\n. - ",
"o\nOf Course It Is\n\"If it's in The Sun, it's so.\"",
"\nMr. Garman was circulation man\nfor the Cleveland Plain Dealer in\nNorth Canton and its vicinity.",
"\nJohn Stripe Buried\nschool went to Canton to participate\nin the county elimination for the district state scholarship test. ",
"This elimination was to choose a county team\nto represent Stark county in the district state scholarship test to be held\nat Kent on May 1. ",
"As a result of this\ncontest, North Canton will have eight\nrepresentatives on the team.",
"\nIn biology there was a tie for sec-\nJohn Stripe, aged 83, a life-long j ond place with a North Canton pupil,\nresident of Greentown, who died in • and this will be worked off sometime\nAultman hospital, following an opera- | this week.",
"\ntion, on Sunday, was buried in the '. ",
"Those pupils representating North\nGreentown cemetery yesterday (Tues- j Canton and the subjects in which they\nday) afternoon. ",
"A nephew, H. G. j participate are as follows: General\nGretz of Greentown, is the only im- [science, James Fry; physics, William\nmediate survivor. ",
"■ Golloway; algebra, Thomas Hurlburt;\n! ",
"geometry, Paul Harrison; American\nhistory, William Uhrich; world history, Robert Werstler; French XII,\nRobert Beck and Ronald Harding.",
"\nPhyllis Druckenbrod is the pupil who\nis tied for second place in biology.",
"\ntheYotaryclub\nTelling of the Activities of North Canton American Legion Post No. ",
"-119 and of thc Legion Auxiliary\nRegular Post meeting was held in\nthe Legion home on Monday evening,\nApril 19.",
"\nPast Commander Charles Linerode\ngave an interesting report of the\nAmerican Legion 10th district Spring\nconference held in Alliance on Sunday, April IS.",
"\nHe said it was one of the best conferences he had ever attended. ",
"The\nmorning session was devoted to\nschools lor the various activities of\nthe Legion.",
"\nThe afternoon session was opened\nNational Commander\nSaturday, May 1, National Commander Harry W. Colmery will speak-\nin Canton.",
"\n[Continued on page four]\nence, airplane or other boys' magazines to this meeting. ",
"The unit is\nsending this literature to the Mansfield reformatory.",
"\nPlans for the poppy sale in May\nwill be made. ",
"Let us make an extra will bo present\nMembers A.re Going This Evening To\nMeeting In Alliance.",
"\nThe members of the Rotary club\nof North Canton will go to the country club in Alliance this Wednesday\nevening as guests of the Rotarians of\nthat city. ",
"Delegations from a number\nthis summer, also taking up more\ngym activities in the Fall.",
"\nSaid Miss Seederly, in charge of\nwomen and girls' work, to a writer\nfor The Sun: \"I can't tell you how\nmuch I enjoyed this group. ",
"I think\nwe all had fun, and except for a little\nstiffness, this group surelv can lake\nit.\"",
"\nPrep Gym Class\nMembers of the prep gym class\nhave been taking to the out-of-doors\non these nice days. ",
"They will soon\nstart taking their suppers and do\nsome out-door cooking. ",
"i classes \"in Zion Lutheran church. ",
"In\nTo Entertain Mothers j the evening he will talk to the con-\nThe various clubs are making plans [ gregation on \"What of the Jews?\"",
"\nto entertain their mothers during the The Rev. Mr. Wago is a forceful\nfirst part of May on the regular club speaker, say those who have beard-\nmeeting night. ",
"him, and he presents his message with\nPrep Friendship, May 4, at 3:30. ",
"power and conviction. ",
"The public is\nJunior Girl Reserves, May (i at 7:00, cordially invited to hear him.",
"\nSenior Girl Reserves, May 5. ",
"at 7:00.",
"\nUTERARYCLUB\nOn Sunday morning, April 25, thc\nRev. Oscar Wago, \"a converted Jew\nand ordained a Christian clergyman,''\nwill speak to the Sunday-school\nMembers Discuss Women and Their\nWork In the World.",
"\nThe Ladies' Literary club met witli\nMrs. M. M. Rubright on Monday evening and enjoyed the following program, the main subject being \"Con-\nof clubs in Stark anil nearby counties ! ",
"temporary Women.\" ",
"Mrs. V. C. Wis\neffort to co-operate with our poppy\nchairman, Mrs. Hilda /.engler, in this\nsale.",
"\nThe Spring conference of the lOih\ndistrict of the American Legion Aux-\n■ iliary will be held in Sleubenville en\n! ",
"Wednesday, April 2S.\n| There will be a display of articles\nmade by veterans in the Sandusky\nwith a parade at 1:30, made up of the | The regular monthly meeting of the ! ",
"home at this meeting. ",
"Mrs. WilbuV\nMassillon and Ailliance Legion Drum , American Legion Auxiliary will be-lDeWoe.se, national vice-president will\nCorps, the Canton Legion band and held in the Legion Home on Thursday be a distinguished guest. ",
"Reservations\nLegionnaires attending the conference, evening at 8 o'clock. ; ",
"for the noon luncheon must be made\nMilo Werner of Toledo, Ohio, who is Members are requested to bring j bv April 24. ",
"Anvone desiring to go,\na candidate for National Commander, any school text books, popular fiction ! ",
"please call Mrs. Fern Wise, unit sec-\nfor next year, was the mam speaker, or mystery books or any pojnj.ar Sci- j letarv\nAt the meeting on Thursday a number of questions of interest to the\nmembership were discussed.",
"\nIn answer to a question regarding\npeddlers holding down coiners cn\nHoover pay days and blocking the\nsidewalks, Mayor Frank M. Evans explained that under state laws the peddlers had certain rights the village\nmust respect, but he would see what\ncould be done, and if possible, remedy\nthe blocking of the sidewalks.",
"\n. ",
"o\nShopping Plans\nLet the ads help you make your\nshopping plans.",
"\nIn Education, Mrs. Wooley; Mis. ",
"J.\nF. Gross, In Art, Cecelia Beaux; Mis.",
"\nR. L. Kelly, In Theatre. ",
"Eva La Gall-\nienne. ",
"Mrs. William Christman read\nsome of Edgar Guest's poems.",
"\nHouse cleaning hints was the answer to l oil-call.",
"\nWILL EXHIBIT WORK\n: Parents Invited To Visit Classes\nTomorrow (Thursday).",
"\nOn Monday and Tuesday of this\nweek invitations were sent to the parents of all the pupils el' both the\ngrade and high school to visit classes\nsometime on Thursday. ",
"Regubu\n, classes are to be in session at their\nregular times ihroughout the day.",
"\nIn the various rooms there will I,\"\nexhibits of some uf the woik that has\nbeen done by the pupils during th\"\nyear. ",
"The building will be open to tho\npublic on Thursdav evening from 7:01)\nto !",
">:00 o'clock. ",
"Classes will n..t he\nin session.",
"\nSoldiers, All Dead\nNames of Green Township, Summit\n( countv, Ohio soldiers who enlisted for\nj the Civil War, 1SG1 to 1865.",
"\nj Daniel Angsteadt, Otha Beard, John\n] Bachtel, William Bowers, John A.\nI Burkett, Peter Carle, John Denious,\nJ George Denious, William Dickerhoo,\nj J. Evans, George Foust, Eli Foster,\nj Joel Frank, Andrew Greenho, Jacob\n: Garman, Jerry Garman, Harry Gar-\ni man, Abraham Gamon, Fred Gingling,\n' Jerome Grable, Obed Hunsberger, Wil-\n| liam Hartong, Hiram Haring, Milo\nHunsberger, Isaiah Hunsberger, Jonas Kayler, Hiram Kepler, John Kepler, William Klinefelter, Noah Lecl-^\nner, George Lamberson, ■ J^eol, Leopard, George Leppard, Jerome Mus-\nser, Joseph' Mell- 1st Lieut. ",
"Samuel\nMottinger, John Musty, Henry Musty,\nFrederick Pippus, Daniel Paulus, A liner Ream, Samuel Ream, Frederick\nRemly, Jacob Gardner, Jehu Rininger,\nSamuel Rininger, R. A. Crist, George\nRininger, Joseph Seese, Samuel Steese,\nJohn Steese, Darius Spitler, Daniel\nShutt, Elias Sbutt, Edwin Shriver,\nBalser Shriver, Henry Shriver, Joel\nSlaver, Simon Staver, George Streby,\nDaniel Stamm, Ezra Spidel, William\nSmith, William Sweeten, Simon Simmons, Peter Tritt, Fred Towsley, John\nWinkleman, Henry Winkleman, Adam\nWaggerly, Jefferson Yerrick, Hiram\nYerrick, Lewis Yerrick, Jacob Gardner. ",
"The above names number 7-j.\nKnown As llilth Ohio\nThe following are the names of tinmen who were called later and known\na; the \"MMth Ohio.-'\nJo.-eph Anderson, Capt. ",
"D. F. Berger, I-.'lias Cramer, Benjamin CMsnell,\nDaniel Fousi, Jonathan Foster, George\nFosnight, Levi Fosnight, Suel Foster,\nJacob Grable, Lewis Hartong, Levi\nHartong, Henry Jarrett, Perry Kepler, John Kepler, David Kline, Alkiah\nKoontz, Henry Long, Jacob Long,\nObed Long, Isaac Miller, 2nd Lieut.",
"\nD. J. Mottinger, Lewis Ream, William\nRininger, Ezra Spidel, Aaron Swart/.,\nFrank Stipe, Frank Winkleman. ",
"Alfred Yerrick, Andrew Yerrick.",
"\nGOODWOLDMHER\nThe Rev. Ur. ",
"M. S. Rice of Detroit\nSpeaker On April 27.",
"\ni The annual meeting and dinner if\nthe Good Will Mission of Canton will\n; be held on Tuesday evening, April 27,\n, at (i:;!0. ",
"The Rev.\" Dr. M. S. Rice of\nDetroit will be guest speaker. ",
"Anyone interested in mission work may\n, attend by sending in their reserva-\n] tion to the Itev. ",
"Karl Gooseman.",
"\nTelephone 7U21.",
"\n\"the\"ma¥sclub\nMusic and One-Act Play Pleases\n.Members and Guests.",
"\nThe Woman's club of North Canton\nheld an open inciting in the Community Building on Monday evening.",
"\nGuest-; artists were Miss Witwer of\nGreentown, who sang two numbers\n\"1'iystal Gazer\" and \"Haunt of the\nWitches,\" accompanied hy Mrs. W. W.\nMathie and the members of the Player,.' ",
"Guild who gave a one-act play.",
"\nTlie in >.t meet ing wil! ",
"he May \" at\n2:(I0 p.m. in the Community Building.",
"\nRELIGIOUS PROGRAM\nis,\nOn\nHi-Y Alumna Supper\nThe annual Hi-Y alumna supper\nwill be held on Friday evening, May\nAttended Au.it's Fun.ei-.il\noi Mr. and Mrs. William Nowbauer,\n14, at 0:30 in Sun Ming's restaurant | Ml* :ill(1 Mrs. Albert Marker and Mrs.\nin Canton. ",
"Further details next week. ;' ",
"Weyman Werstlei attended the ui-\no neral of Mrs. Herman Newbauer in\n,„. , , . ",
"Rea- News J Akron on Monday afternoon. ",
"She was piled from units ot study\nrheres big news for you in the ad-. ",
"S7 years of age. ",
"She was an aunt by Miss Fliehman. ",
"About\nvertising- columns.",
"\n' of the Newbauers.",
"\nNorth C.nton Grade Pupils\nSunday Evening. ",
"May 2.",
"\nAs announced in The Sun last week,\nNi.rth Canton grade pupils, members\noi the Week Day School ot Religion,,\nwill present a religious educational1\nprogram in story, song and play on\nSunday evening, May 2, at 7:30'in\nthe high school auditorium.",
"\nThe entile program has been corn-\npresented\nloO grade\nchildren will participate.",
"\n\nr\nALL THE REAL NEWS AND SPECIAL\nFEATURES CAREFULLY EDITED\nBEAD BY BRIGHT PEOPLE\nAn Independent Newspaper That Plays No Favorites Among Advertisers or Subscribers, and With One Price To AH\nVOL. ",
"15—NO. ",
".25.",
"\nNORTH CANTON, STARK COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937—EIGHT PAGES\nIT SHINES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN\nNORTHERN STARK COUNTY\nREAD BY BRIGHT PEOPLE\nS1.00 PER YEAR.",
"\nBASEBALL TEAMS ARE!",
"\nROUNDING INTO FORM!",
"\n. - ",
"|\nMembers of Church League, In\nWhich Are Many Good Players, Are In the Park Every\nDay Getting Into Shape For\nthe Opening Game Scheduled\nFor Tuesday, May 4.",
"\nPRACTICE PLAY APRIL 27\nTold Without i LIBRARY PATRONAGE :TfteJW£s Pap^\nVarnish by Ben Long! ",
"WAS HEAVY IN MARCH \\ IntffiSiTpeople Have;\nnn.' ",
"7* 7 T- . ",
"J i Confidence in The Sun.i\nWhen a Man Is Tired : Report of Miss Cooper, the Li-\nMembers of St. Paul's, Zion Reformed and The Community Christian\nDISCUSSING the death of a distinguished editor in New York\nlast week a columnist of the\nBroadway gossip type remarked that\n\"No one who has ever known cily\nlooms and news and reporters can\nreally take much interest in apples or\napple trees.\"",
"\nHis statement helps 'to sustain the I\nadage that all generalizations are |\n_ false. ",
"The writer of Told Without !",
"\nj Varnish, in his somewhat protracted j\nI career, has known several city edi- i j\ni tors of the thoroughly hard-boiled | Thc report which Bliss Cooper, lhe I\ntype who were, on occasion, very fond I librarian, submitted this week to the j\nc u •-.. i * r> ii They Know It Respects j I.,_\nbrarian, Submitted to Board I J ^ \\ '••'-*\nof Trustees, Shows'That 4643 itself and Its Readers.",
"\nBooks, Periodicals, Pamphlets\nand Pictures Were Circulated\nDuring the Month.",
"\nART DISPLAY ATTRACTS\nSee Inside Pages\nIn The Sun Today\nFor Special Features\nAs The Sun Sees If\nWifhout Prejudice\nWhy People Are Cheerful\nRESIDENTS of Ohio\nEn\nchurches have, as all readers of The 0f the shade of the old apple trie. ' ",
"Board of Trustees of the Noil\nSun know, an organized church league . ",
"The turmoil, the vertiginous action, ton Library, showed that 46M3\nand the league is going to play real (.]le swift decisions, the whirl of ■ -• - •\nbaseball this Spring and summer. ! ",
"crimes and accidents of a daily news-\nRight now the young men in the\nleague are out in the open getting\ninto shape for practice games on\nApril 27 and April 30.",
"\nThe regular schedule starts on May\n4. ",
"John McLean, president of the\nleague, will hold several meetings between now and the opening to clear up\nrules and other things that will help\nin governing the league,, such as umpire, ground rules, equipment, style\nof ball, etc.",
"\nNo doubt Glenn Schiltz, Jr.'s Reformed Church team will battle\nagainst Bob Swope's Christians on\nApril 27 and Cletus Moledor's huskies will tangle with some good team\non Friday, April 30.",
"\nTlie X-club team is now ready for\ngames with Junior teanis of this vicinity. ",
"Call the Community Building,\nNorth Canton 9500.",
"\nSoftball Diamonds\nFeeling there will be a need for\nmore Softball diamonds this year, the\nCommunity Building is leveling off\nand putting into shape two full-sized\ndiamonds on the football ground for\nuse this season. ",
"This with two in Wit-\n-wer park should give an outlet to the\nnumber of teams in the games this\nseason.",
"\nOrganize Tennis Club\nTennis courts will be in shape for\nplay within another, week for those (next moment a wedding, now a scan-\nwho care to get an early start. ",
"The ' dal and now an idyll, now watchin\npaper city room are by no means incompatible with bucolic tastes on the\npart of the men in them.",
"\nOne of the most intensely concentrated of city editors that this writer\never knew, on a certain New York\npaper, was in his hours off duty a\ncultivator of prize onions in New\nJersey. ",
"That state contains many\nmen engaged in journalism in New\nYork city and Philadelphia and hundreds of them prefer the shade of the\nold apple tree to a night club. ",
"As a\nmatter of truth, very few newspaper\nmen go to night clubs of their own\nfree will. ",
"They consider it beneath\ntheir dignity to be seen in such places,\nand then the old crack heard in news\nrooms, \"So he's become a member of\nthe Sucker Brigade and spends his\npennies in night clubs?\" ",
"has stayed\nthe feet of many young reporters.",
"\nV •£ •£\nTHE celebrated SeJah M. Clarke,\nlong renowned as night editor of\nthe old New York Sun, died about\nsix years ago while sitting under an\napple tree in his Canandaigu orchard.",
"\nAnd he knew more about \"Little Old\nNew York\" than the Broadway gossip columnists will ever know.",
"\nDealing in contrasts all his life—\nnow under his hand a tragedy and the\nth Can\nbooks,\nperiodicals, pamphlets and pictures\nwere circulated during the month of\nMarch.",
"\nTeachers are taking advantage of\nthe collection of pictures at the library to obtain the loan of groups of\npictures to illustrate the subject being studied. ",
"In March the largest call\nwas for pictures of Indians.",
"\nStudents Show Talent\nThere were forty pupils from the\ngrade schools who entered the contest\nfor the reproduction of pictures in the\nart display at the library and thirty-\ntwo completed their work. ",
"This week\nthe pupils from the high school are\nworking and next week the reproductions will be mounted, placed on display and the winners announced.",
"\nMany of the students show marked\ntalent.",
"\nCAMPING TRIPS\nclub is .being organized and will take\nover in the near future\nCOUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL\nNorth Canton To Be Represented In\nCanton On May 1.",
"\nThe North Canton glee clubs and\norchestra are working on their part\nof the program for the county music\nfestival to be held at Canton City auditorium on Saturday evening, May 1.",
"\nThose persons who attended the program last year, will appreciate that\nthis is one of the biggest things done\nby the schools throughout the year.",
"\nHE SPMSTpIGHT\nHarry C. Herman Will Tell What He\nSaw In India.",
"\nTo\nits\na yacht race or a boxing match, now\ninvestigating tong warfare in the hidden gloom of a Chinese slum—the\nman on the staff of a big daily becomes a connoisseur of contrasts, and\noften loves to introduce them into his\nown life. ",
"For his holiday, he probably goes window shopping, but he always winds up under the shade of the\nold apple tree. ",
"Above all, he likes j\nsolitude—for a while.",
"\nIn his active years the passion for\nthe hullaballoo of the city news room\nmay return. ",
"For a month he may be\nJiappy among the noise and bustle.",
"\nBut when his. ",
"work is over he prefers\na few congenial friends and in a place\nfar, far from the noisy crowd. ",
"That\nis why he favors the old apple tree.",
"\n* * *\nY readers understand that the ex-\nM\nCommunity Building Prepared\nTake Boys On Trip.",
"\nNext week The Sun will tell\nreaders all about the Community\nBuilding educational camping trips.",
"\nDwight Harsh says the schedule for\nthe summer vacations has been made\nup, and boys will be given an opportunity to sign for the trips.",
"\nSo see Dwight in the Community\nBuilding ami then prepare for the\ngreat adventure over mountains,\nthrough valleys and amid forests.",
"\nmee™empress\nhazel richards\nMiss Hazel Richards, daughter of\nMr. and Mrs. Art Richards of North\nCanton, finished the season for North\nCanton Dairies iii Class A Bowling-\nleague with an average of 179 for 72\ngames. ",
"She played against the best\nCanton had to offer.",
"\nSo frequently has Hazel \"been\ncrowned Queen of the Bowlers that\nit is becoming monotonous, so The\nSun takes the liberty of raising her\ntitle. ",
"From now on she is \"The\nEmpress.\"",
"\nLord Beaconsfield made Queen Victoria Empress of India, and Benito\nMussolini created King Humbert Emperor of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). ",
"So\nThe Sun feels it is on safe ground in\nraising the titles of royalty.",
"\nARE MAKING GOOD\nResidents of North Canton Active In\nCollege Life At Hiram.",
"\nSpecial to The Sun\nHiram, Ohio, April 21—Miss Lillian\nShook, Richard Hurlburt, and Karl\nand Preston Kidder, all of North Canton,- are singing with the A Cappella\nChoir of Hiram college on its eastern\nconcert tour.",
"\nThe choir, which has achieved a\nreputation among college musical organizations, is composed of forty-four\nmen and girls performing under the\ndirection of George R. Howerton. ",
"It\nappeared in Erie, Pa., under the sponsorship of the Erie Day School on\nApril 12; at the Eastern Music Educators' Conference in the Hotel Stat-\nler, Buffalo, on Thursday afternoon,\nApril 15, and at a Buffalo high school\nthe following morning.",
"\nOther cocnerts were given in Albion, N. Y., on Friday evening at the\nPresbyterian church, and at the East\nAurora high school on Saturday evening, sponsored by the East Aurora\nhigh school glee club. ",
"The tour ended\nwith a concert in the Willard Straight\nhall of Cornell university in Ithaca,\nN. Y., on Sunday afternoon, April IS.",
"\nAll four of the North Canton students are active in the social and academic life at Hiram. ",
"Miss Shook, who\nis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John\nL. Shook, 334 E. Maple, has been\nelected president of the central board,\nwomen's self-government organization.",
"\nRichard Hurlburt, son of Mr. and\nMrs. G. W. Hurlburt, 218 Hower\nstreet, also sings in the men's glee\nclub for which he is business manager.",
"\nPreston Kidder, son of Mr. 0. ",
"P.\nKidder, 507 McKinley street, has been\nactive in school publications. ",
"His\nbrother Karl entered Hiram as a\nfreshman this year.",
"\nnot of New\nngland descent, may wonder\nj why Massachusetts, New Hamp\nshire, Vermont and Maine observe\ni certain days as holidays. ",
"Fast day\n! ",
"is still annually proclaimed in New\n| Hampshire. ",
"Governor Francis 1'.",
"\n! ",
"Murphy sets Thursday, April 22 (lo-\nj morrow), as this year's date.",
"\nIn his proclamation, as Th* Sun\nread it in the Dailv Union ofvMun- !",
"\nREAL OLD-TIMERS IN\nGREEN TOWNSHIP\nSUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO\nChester, he recalls that from earliest ._",
"\ntimes there has been a day of fasting ! ",
"admonition\nand prayer in the Spring. ",
"But where j prayei-.",
"\nare the gloom and the fear of evils I The governor's proclamation gives\nto come that were associated with | Now Hampshire a Spring holiday. ",
"It\nFast day in \"the good old times?\" ",
"| is called Fast day, but a Spring holi-\nFast day this year, as the New j -'\"- ' -■.*.-- -•-. .. ",
"o....:..._\nHampshire governor envisions it, is |\nfire nnd brimstone doctrine turn in\nhit* grave. ",
"Fast day as he knew it\nwas not dedicated to the sunshine and\nthe merriment of tho Springtime.",
"\nConsiderations such as these are '\nnot likely, however, to ho uppermost |\nin the minds ol the New Hampshire )\nfolk as they observe their holiday. ",
"|\nThere will be much of feasting and j\nlittle ol' fasting. ",
"Without disrespect | •\nto Governor Murphy il_ may be sug-:RECAUj nyIL WAR 1)Ays\nNames Furnished Thc Sun I5y\nI(s Correspondent, Mrs. Sol\nHartong- of Greensburg, Who\nHas Written For Newspapers\nFor 15 Years, and Is Today\nActive Menially and Physically At the Age oi' 81.",
"\n/jested that ho will not follow* his own |\nnd let hunger wait on\nan occasion for great gladness and assurance of a happy future. ",
"He says\nthat \"we can look forward without\nworry and with heartening anticipation to days of greater happiness than\nwe have ever known.\" ",
"His statement\nis enough to make the Fast day\npreacher of the past with his hell-\nMANY VISIT SCHOOL\nArts\nan old newspaper expression. ",
"It\nis used to show that a ■ large number of newspaper writers prefer to i\nsaunter around by themselves in out\nof the way places. ",
"I recall years ago\n^^an1: sr^s&ffi:! ",
"SYLVAN GARMAN DIED\nerland, Louis Megargee, and others !",
"\nione^-x ^.^-\"wKiEARLY THIS MORNING\nand enjoying every minute. , ",
"muJI 1 \"*\" mvumiiu\nPaine was just back from China, i „ . . , „ _., _, _, . .",
"\nwhere he had covered the Chinese-j Resident of Mt. Pleasant Expired\nJapanese war for the Philadelphia | In Aultman Hospital.",
"\nPress, and the day I met him he was i „ , , r - Ml. ",
"™ .",
"\namong the Russians in South Phila- > b3hau \"• :00 o'clock. ",
"Classes will n..t he\nin session.",
"\nSoldiers, All Dead\nNames of Green Township, Summit\n( countv, Ohio soldiers who enlisted for\nj the Civil War, 1SG1 to 1865.",
"\nj Daniel Angsteadt, Otha Beard, John\n] Bachtel, William Bowers, John A.\nI Burkett, Peter Carle, John Denious,\nJ George Denious, William Dickerhoo,\nj J. Evans, George Foust, Eli Foster,\nj Joel Frank, Andrew Greenho, Jacob\n: Garman, Jerry Garman, Harry Gar-\ni man, Abraham Gamon, Fred Gingling,\n' Jerome Grable, Obed Hunsberger, Wil-\n| liam Hartong, Hiram Haring, Milo\nHunsberger, Isaiah Hunsberger, Jonas Kayler, Hiram Kepler, John Kepler, William Klinefelter, Noah Lecl-^\nner, George Lamberson, ■ J^eol, Leopard, George Leppard, Jerome Mus-\nser, Joseph' Mell- 1st Lieut. ",
"Samuel\nMottinger, John Musty, Henry Musty,\nFrederick Pippus, Daniel Paulus, A liner Ream, Samuel Ream, Frederick\nRemly, Jacob Gardner, Jehu Rininger,\nSamuel Rininger, R. A. Crist, George\nRininger, Joseph Seese, Samuel Steese,\nJohn Steese, Darius Spitler, Daniel\nShutt, Elias Sbutt, Edwin Shriver,\nBalser Shriver, Henry Shriver, Joel\nSlaver, Simon Staver, George Streby,\nDaniel Stamm, Ezra Spidel, William\nSmith, William Sweeten, Simon Simmons, Peter Tritt, Fred Towsley, John\nWinkleman, Henry Winkleman, Adam\nWaggerly, Jefferson Yerrick, Hiram\nYerrick, Lewis Yerrick, Jacob Gardner. ",
"The above names number 7-j.\nKnown As llilth Ohio\nThe following are the names of tinmen who were called later and known\na; the \"MMth Ohio.-'\nJo.-eph Anderson, Capt. ",
"D. F. Berger, I-.'lias Cramer, Benjamin CMsnell,\nDaniel Fousi, Jonathan Foster, George\nFosnight, Levi Fosnight, Suel Foster,\nJacob Grable, Lewis Hartong, Levi\nHartong, Henry Jarrett, Perry Kepler, John Kepler, David Kline, Alkiah\nKoontz, Henry Long, Jacob Long,\nObed Long, Isaac Miller, 2nd Lieut.",
"\nD. J. Mottinger, Lewis Ream, William\nRininger, Ezra Spidel, Aaron Swart/.,\nFrank Stipe, Frank Winkleman. ",
"Alfred Yerrick, Andrew Yerrick.",
"\nGOODWOLDMHER\nThe Rev. Ur. ",
"M. S. Rice of Detroit\nSpeaker On April 27.",
"\ni The annual meeting and dinner if\nthe Good Will Mission of Canton will\n; be held on Tuesday evening, April 27,\n, at (i:;!0. ",
"The Rev.\" Dr. M. S. Rice of\nDetroit will be guest speaker. ",
"Anyone interested in mission work may\n, attend by sending in their reserva-\n] tion to the Itev. ",
"Karl Gooseman.",
"\nTelephone 7U21.",
"\n\"the\"ma¥sclub\nMusic and One-Act Play Pleases\n.Members and Guests.",
"\nThe Woman's club of North Canton\nheld an open inciting in the Community Building on Monday evening.",
"\nGuest-; artists were Miss Witwer of\nGreentown, who sang two numbers\n\"1'iystal Gazer\" and \"Haunt of the\nWitches,\" accompanied hy Mrs. W. W.\nMathie and the members of the Player,.' ",
"Guild who gave a one-act play.",
"\nTlie in >.t meet ing wil! ",
"he May \" at\n2:(I0 p.m. in the Community Building.",
"\nRELIGIOUS PROGRAM\nis,\nOn\nHi-Y Alumna Supper\nThe annual Hi-Y alumna supper\nwill be held on Friday evening, May\nAttended Au.it's Fun.ei-.il\noi Mr. and Mrs. William Nowbauer,\n14, at 0:30 in Sun Ming's restaurant | Ml* :ill(1 Mrs. Albert Marker and Mrs.\nin Canton. ",
"Further details next week. ;' ",
"Weyman Werstlei attended the ui-\no neral of Mrs. Herman Newbauer in\n,„. , , . ",
"Rea- News J Akron on Monday afternoon. ",
"She was piled from units ot study\nrheres big news for you in the ad-. ",
"S7 years of age. ",
"She was an aunt by Miss Fliehman. ",
"About\nvertising- columns.",
"\n' of the Newbauers.",
"\nNorth C.nton Grade Pupils\nSunday Evening. ",
"May 2.",
"\nAs announced in The Sun last week,\nNi.rth Canton grade pupils, members\noi the Week Day School ot Religion,,\nwill present a religious educational1\nprogram in story, song and play on\nSunday evening, May 2, at 7:30'in\nthe high school auditorium.",
"\nThe entile program has been corn-\npresented\nloO grade\nchildren will participate."
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"The picture had some grain and color over saturation but wasn't terrible. ",
"The audio was presented in 2.0 stereo with minimal separation between the channels and sounded a touch hollow.",
"\n\n-- sponsored by --\n\nBody of Review: Mercedez, the busty young Texan of mixed heritage who's new to porn, seems to be the latest Vivid contract performer. ",
"I think she looks better than the dvd cover but it's always nice to see a fresh face in porn. ",
"In her debut release for Vivid, So I Married A Porn Star, she plays a gal who marries a customer in a strip club and quits stripping for him. ",
"He later finds out she works as a porn star and the tension mounts. ",
"There were some good lines here with lots of humor to go with some pretty warm sex scenes. ",
"If you like oral and straight sex with condoms, check out this breakdown of the scenes by cast:\n\nScene One: Mercedez, a gal that looks like Prince's ex-girlfriend Apollonia but with larger implants, and Tony had a scene that started in a strip club and ended in a home. ",
"Oral and straight with a condom but pretty solidly made.",
"\n\nScene Two: Mercedez and Steve had a scene on a bed during a porn shoot. ",
"Too many close ups but otherwise okay.",
"\n\nScene Three: Natasha, a gal that looks like a younger and leaner version of Serenity, and Mario on a bed during a porn shoot. ",
"Mercedez joined in for a few moments of lesbian licking but the main performers here did a good job.",
"\n\nScene Four: Natasha, still looking fresh except for her plethora of tattoo's, and Chris did the deed on a staircase. ",
"Oral and straight but lots of energy with chemistry. ",
"Yum!",
"\n\nScene Five: Mercedez and Tony had a short scene together on the couch, not a full scene mind you, that was oral only and then a quick partial scene between Natasha and Chris but neither truly qualify as a \"scene\".",
"\n\nScene Six: Mercedez, Jesse, Natasha, Tony and Mario had a scene during a porno shoot in a darkened room. ",
"Mercedez took care of Mario while Tony did the other two. ",
"This was actually a good scene as well although I was kind of expecting to see some anal given the advertising copy on the back dvd cover. ",
"Warm.",
"\n\nSummary: I liked this one for all it's technical limitations. ",
"The sex was good, the ladies attractive and even the extras were solid which all lead me to rate this one as Recommended. ",
"I'd have preferred the partial sex scenes to be fleshed out a bit which would've added value to the movie but overall, it was worth checking out.",
"\n\n----You can email me with questions at Houstondon @ hotmail.com if you have any constructive criticism of the review too. :) ",
"Also you can follow me on twitter @HoustonDon"
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"\n\nSynopsis\n\nAct One\nJack, a young blacksmith's son, sits at the edge of the forest, waiting for the arrival of \"Thursday's Children\", mythical fairy creatures that supposedly live in the forest, appearing only at Midsummer's Eve.",
"\n\nMidsummer's Day also happens to be the coming of age of Lord Melstock, a local noble, who has escaped from the stress of ruling. ",
"He tells his wife Henrietta about the legend of the local spirits that dwell in the forest, who supposedly would light bonfires at Midsummer (\"Dream Nights\"). ",
"They are interrupted by the local groundsman, Matthews, who reports that his daughter Charlotte has eloped with a local boy, Alexander, despite being engaged to David Swann, a local Captain and former betrothed of Jennifer Farthing, the Admiral's daughter. ",
"Swann has pursued his beloved with Jennifer in tow, surmising that Alexander and Charlotte will try to escape through the woods and make their way to Scotland to be married.",
"\n\nAlso in the forest that night is the Reverend Herbert Plum, who is hoping to perform his new \"musico-dramtico gersamkuntswerk\" at the ball the following. ",
"He and his fellow thespians perform (\"The Cuckoo Song\") before discussing the business of rehearsal. ",
"Lead actor Nick Cheek suggests a final rehearsal at the Membury Stones at the centre of the forest. (\"",
"The Cuckoo Song\" (reprise)).",
"\n\nJack finds himself at the centre of the wood (\"Thursday's Children\" (reprise)), and is startled by Sylvia and her woodlanders, who ask of his background. ",
"Before he can join them, they are interrupted by Angel, Sylvia's paramour, and the two bands fight over Jack, Sylvia eventually leaving in a fury. ",
"Angel vows vengeance for this slight (\"Heart of the Wood\"). ",
" He asks Jack to prove himself to the Woodlanders by fetching a herb that only grows this one night, and sprinkling it on the eyes of the sleeping Sylvia. ",
"The herb will make the sleeper fall in love with the first purpose their waking eyes look upon (\"Love in Idleness\"). ",
"Jack obeys, discovering Sylvia and her attendants as they sing of her sadness in love, before laying down to sleep (\"Night of Silence\").",
"\n\nReturning from the fairy bed, Angel notices Charlotte and Alexander lying separately and, assuming they are lovers who have fallen out, asks Jack to sprinkle the herb on Alexander's eyes too (\"Love in Idleness\" (reprise)). ",
"However, he happens to notice newly arrived Jennifer when he wakes, and falls madly in love, much to her horror (\"Jennifer\").",
"\n\nThe actors are rehearsing their play (\"The Ballad of St George\") largely unsuccessful, with Jess Dunn the farm boy complaining his part (the dragon's rear-end) is too small. ",
" When he is recast as the Princess the show continues, but when Cheek disappears to make his entrance, the actors are horrified to see him return transfigured into a goat. ",
" They flee into the woods, while the confused Cheek bumps into Sylvia's camp and causes her to fall in love with him. (\"",
"Act One Finale\")\n\nCharacters\nJack the central figure of the play, who goes to join the spirits. ",
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"\n\nThe gentry\nJulian, Lord Melstock a local young aristocrat who is about to celebrate his coming of age. (",
"Corresponds to Theseus)\nHenrietta, Melstock's wife, who tries to remind him that his title does not mean he cannot enjoy himself. (",
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"Global warming has in recent years caused colourful coral reefs to bleach and die around the world -- but not in the Gulf of Eilat, or Aqaba, part of the northern Red Sea. ",
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"\n\n“This is game-changing,” says Greg Asner, director of Arizona State University’s centre for global discovery and conservation science. “",
"I’ve been doing this for 25 years. ",
"Until two years ago, we would get an image and then we’d unpack it, and spend months and even years trying to determine what was going on on the sea floor.”",
"\n\nHe adds: “Now, we’re getting images every day from all over the world in [real] time.”",
"\n\nAsner says there was a recent incident in one of the northern areas of the Marshall Islands where a tanker ran aground, a long way from where the authorities were based in the south.",
"\n\n“The first image of this happening was from our project,” he says. “",
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"But we had the image, the next day.”",
"\n\nHe says anywhere up to a billion people depend directly on coral for their livelihoods, but that even larger numbers benefit from their association with fisheries and the breaking of storm surges.",
"\n\nRuth Gates: coral reef conservationist explains the importance of reef ecosystem care\n\nA report published earlier this year by the UN about challenges to biodiversity warned that up to a million species were threatened with extinction. ",
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"\n\n“Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity’s most important life-supporting safety net,” warned Sandra Diaz, a renowned Argentine ecologist who co-chaired the report. “",
"But our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point.”",
"\n\nThe images used by Asner and others are provided by Planet Labs, a California-based company that operates 120 satellites to provide almost real-time images. ",
"The new images provided by the latest generation of satellites – lighter, smaller and cheaper – means Planet Labs can detect deforestation, the growth of cities, sea ice, and even the spread of camps for refugees or internally displaced people.",
"\n\nAndrew Zolli, the company’s vice president of global impact, says the team is fond of saying: “You can’t save something you cannot see.”",
"\n\n“These problems tend to be remote from our everyday experience,” he says.",
"\n\nPaul Allen, here in 2014, was inspired to start a coral project after seeing bleaching firsthand (Getty)\n\n“We hand these data sets to scientists,” Zolli adds. “",
"The challenge is how to turn big data into action.”",
"\n\nThe map being produced for the coral atlas will comprise the highest resolution images of the world’s reefs seen so far.",
"\n\n“What we know about the coral reefs is that they are under tremendous stress, specifically from climate change and human development. ",
"Yet no high-resolution map of the world’s coral reefs exists,” he says.",
"\n\n“Less than a hundredth of 1 per cent of the world’s reefs are actively monitored for change, and when they are, they’re monitored using methods that would have been familiar to the Wright brothers. ",
"People go up in planes and literally estimate the extent of things such as coral bleaching.”",
"\n\nHe adds: “We’re using an early 20th-century solution to deal with a global 21st-century problem, and we’re failing at it badly.”",
"\n\nAllen, who died last October and was said to have a fortune of more than $20bn (£16bn) at the time of death, did not have an entirely seamless relationship with the oceans. ",
"In January 2016, it was reported that one of his yachts, the 303ft MV Tatoosh, unintentionally destroyed a large part of a coral reef in the Cayman Islands with its anchor chain.",
"\n\nA spokesperson for Vulcan said at the time that Allen was not in the Caribbean when the incident took place, and questioned the reported scale of the damage the accident caused.",
"\n\nA Vulcan spokesperson told The Independent: “It was never determined that the coral injury in the Cayman Islands was caused by the Tatoosh, as there was a long history of incidents in that location. ",
"Regardless, in 2016, Vulcan quickly commissioned leading experts in coral and reef restoration to rebuild, protect and preserve the local ecosystem for generations to come.”",
"\n\nHelen Fox has the task of using the data produced by the Allen-inspired project and working with local communities. ",
"She says sometimes they are able to piggyback on existing projects; sometimes they start new initiatives.",
"\n\nThey also work with conservationists and students to dive and take images pegged to a GPS tracker, to help validate the maps produced the satellites.",
"\n\nFox, a senior director at the National Geographic Society, says the goal “is to have a network of engaged users who can receive alerts if there are bleaching events or ship groundings”.",
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"Monitoring of adverse events continued for 8 weeks after discontinuation of therapy. ",
"EASI scores improved from a mean baseline score of 37.1 +/- 13.5 to 17.6 +/- 14.5 at week 12 (52.3% improvement; P < .0001). ",
"Six out of ten subjects reached at least a 50% improvement in EASI score by week 12. ",
"Pruritus levels decreased from 6.9 cm +/- 1.8 cm to 4.9 cm +/- 2.5 cm utilizing a visual analogue score (P < .015). ",
"Overall, efalizumab was well tolerated. ",
"There were three significant adverse events during the course of this study, including thrombocytopenia, viral gastroenteritis, and a subject with worsening of disease beyond baseline levels after drug discontinuation. ",
"It is difficult to apply these findings to larger populations of patients with AD because this study lacked a control group and involved a small number of subjects with very severe disease. ",
"Long-term efficacy and safety of efalizumab in this population is not known. ",
"Efalizumab therapy resulted in significant clinical improvements in six of ten subjects with severe AD. ",
"Efalizumab may serve as a good alternative to current systemic immunosuppressants used for AD; however, double-blind placebo-controlled studies are needed to test its efficacy and safety."
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"\n570 S.E.2d 605 (2002)\n257 Ga. App. ",
"289\nBIANCO et al.",
"\nv.\nThe STATE.",
"\nNo. ",
"A02A1134.",
"\nCourt of Appeals of Georgia.",
"\nAugust 21, 2002.",
"\nReconsideration Denied September 6, 2002.",
"\n*606 Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, for appellants.",
"\nPhilip C. Smith, Dist. ",
"Atty., ",
"Rand J. Csehy, Asst. ",
"Dist. ",
"Atty., ",
"for appellee.",
"\nANDREWS, Presiding Judge.",
"\nLynne Bianco and William Sickles appeal from the judgment entered after they were found guilty of one count of possession of methamphetamine. ",
"They claim the trial court erred in denying their motion to suppress evidence. ",
"For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.",
"\nWhen reviewing a motion to suppress, we construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the findings and judgment of the trial court, and the court's findings on disputed facts and witness credibility will be adopted unless they are clearly erroneous. ",
"Redd v. State, 229 Ga.App. ",
"364, 365, 494 S.E.2d 31 (1997). \"[",
"W]here the evidence is uncontroverted and no question regarding the credibility of witnesses is presented, the trial court's application of the law to undisputed facts is subject to de novo appellate review.\" ",
"Vansant v. State, 264 Ga. 319, 320(1), 443 S.E.2d 474 (1994).",
"\nAt the hearing on the motion to suppress, the arresting officer testified that when he was patrolling in a local park at around 8:00 in the evening, he saw a car \"pulled sideways across several parking spaces.\" ",
"The officer stopped and walked up to the car, noticing the odor of alcohol as he approached the car. ",
"Sickles was sitting in the driver's seat and Bianco was in the passenger seat. ",
"As the officer approached, he saw Bianco \"reaching around by her feet.\" ",
"The officer asked Sickles for identification and asked him about the odor of alcohol because alcoholic beverages were not allowed in the park. ",
"Sickles told the officer that he was not drinking, but Bianco was. ",
"The officer asked Sickles to step out of the car. ",
"Sickles argued with him at first but did eventually step out of the car.",
"\nAt that point, the officer called for a K-9 unit and backup which took approximately 15 minutes. ",
"The officer asked Bianco, who owned the car, if he could search it. ",
"He told her that there was a K-9 unit en route, and she gave him consent to search.",
"\nAfter Bianco got out of the car, the officer saw that she was carrying a large pocketknife. ",
"He asked her to empty her pockets, which she did, handing the knife to the officer.",
"\nWhen the backup officer arrived, he talked to Sickles, who became more defensive and nervous. ",
"As the officer attempted to do a pat-down search, Sickles turned away, slapping at the officer's hand. ",
"The officer found what was later identified as methamphetamine in Sickles's pocket and arrested him. ",
"When officers searched the car, they found marijuana in the center console and methamphetamine in Bianco's purse.",
"\nSickles testified and admitted that he was \"fidgety\" and was \"moving around\" and the officer had to instruct him to keep his arms by his side. ",
"Sickles said he was later told to keep his hands on the trunk of the car but did not do so, testifying that \"every time I would move my hands from the trunk, he'd say, `I told you to put your hands on the trunk.'\" ",
"Sickles admitted that he told the officer that Bianco had been drinking.",
"\nThe trial court denied the motion to suppress and found both Bianco and Sickles guilty of possession of methamphetamine. ",
"This appeal followed.",
"\nAs the trial court correctly held, the officer was entitled to walk up to the car and speak to the occupants. ",
"State v. Bryant, 203 Ga.App. ",
"69, 71, 416 S.E.2d 368 (1992). ",
"The odor of alcohol coming from the car and the county ordinance prohibiting any alcohol in the park justified a brief, investigative stop under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. ",
"1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968).",
"\nAppellants argue on appeal that the officers were not justified in doing a pat-down *607 search of Sickles after he got out of the car. ",
"We disagree.",
"\nA reasonable search for weapons for the protection of the police officer() is permitted where he has reason to believe that he is dealing with an armed and dangerous individual, regardless of whether he has probable cause to arrest the individual for a crime. ",
"The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger. ",
"Terry v. Ohio, [supra].",
"\nSikes v. State, 247 Ga.App. ",
"855, 857(1), 545 S.E.2d 73 (2001).",
"\nHere, there was sufficient evidence to support the trial court's finding that a reasonably prudent man could fear for his safety in this situation. ",
"The evidence was that officers were patrolling the park because of \"ongoing problems in some of the county parks with drug gang and theft activities.\" ",
"Bianco's furtive movement as the officer approached, her possession of a knife, Sickles's fidgety movements, and his refusal to keep his hands in view on the trunk of the car were sufficient to justify a protective search for weapons. ",
"See Sikes v. State, supra (Sikes's aggressive behavior and officer's suspicion that he might be under the influence of drugs sufficient to justify pat-down search); Singleton v. State, 235 Ga.App. ",
"88, 90, 508 S.E.2d 461 (1998) (\"officers were justified in asking Singleton to step out of the car and in conducting a pat-down search for weapons based on Singleton's demeanor and the way he positioned his hand by his side in the dark\"); Thompson v. State, 230 Ga.App. ",
"131, 495 S.E.2d 607 (1998) (officer attempting to investigate drug transaction of suspect who was acting skittishly was authorized to make a protective search); Buffington v. State, 229 Ga.App. ",
"450, 494 S.E.2d 272 (1997) (pat-down search for safety was authorized after traffic stop of defendant who had just left area of known drug activity and was acting \"`nervous and just fidgety'\").",
"\nFinally, the methamphetamine discovered during the pat-down was admissible under the plain feel doctrine.",
"\nUnder this doctrine, if, during a lawful pat-down search, an officer feels an object whose contours or mass makes it immediately identifiable as contraband, that officer can seize the item. ",
"Thus, for evidence to be admissible under the plain feel doctrine, the searching officer must express a degree of certainty in identifying the item. ",
"This is so because a pat-down search \"is conducted solely for the purpose of insuring the safety of the officer and of others nearby, not to procure evidence for use at a subsequent trial.\"",
"\n(Footnote and emphasis omitted.) ",
"Patman v. State, 244 Ga.App. ",
"833, 834-835, 537 S.E.2d 118 (2000). ",
"See Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 375-376, 113 S.Ct. ",
"2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993). ",
"Here, the officer testified that he had 16 years experience in dealing with controlled substances and the package in Sickles's pocket felt like a \"corner baggy\" which was commonly used for street sales of controlled substances. ",
"Therefore, under the \"plain feel doctrine,\" the officer was entitled to seize the item, and the evidence was properly admitted.",
"\nAccordingly, for the reasons given above, we conclude the trial court's denial of the motion to suppress was not clearly erroneous.",
"\nJudgment affirmed.",
"\nPHIPPS and MIKELL, JJ., ",
"concur.",
"\n"
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"Introduction {#Sec1}\n============\n\nThe utilization of fossil fuels has increased the atmospheric CO~2~ level, giving rise to serious environmental concerns^[@CR1]^. Therefore, many research endeavors have been focused on renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. ",
"However, it is often difficult to merge these resources directly into the current electricity network due to their intermittent availabilities. ",
"As an effort to overcome this challenge, electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO~2~) reduction reaction (CO~2~RR), coupled with such renewable energy resources, has drawn significant attention and is regarded as one of the viable options for a future sustainable energy economy^[@CR2]--[@CR6]^.\n\nAmong the various CO~2~RR pathways^[@CR6]--[@CR9]^, the simultaneous production of CO and H~2~ (syngas) with tunable CO/H~2~ ratios has been considered very beneficial, because the obtained syngas can be subsequently utilized for producing value-added chemicals through existing thermochemical processes, such as the Fisher--Tropsch and methanol synthesis reactions^[@CR2],[@CR10]--[@CR12]^. For these down-stream thermocatalytic processes, the CO/H~2~ ratio plays an important role in controlling the product selectivity. ",
"Therefore, the ability to produce syngas with a controlled CO/H~2~ ratio should provide versatility in a hybrid electrocatalysis/thermocatalysis approach for CO~2~ utilization.",
"\n\nIt is not a trivial task to achieve a high CO~2~RR activity while maintaining a CO/H~2~ ratio in the desirable range for thermochemical processes, typically between 0.5 and 2.0. ",
"Most of the CO~2~ electrocatalysts, such as gold (Au)^[@CR13]--[@CR18]^, silver (Ag)^[@CR10],[@CR19],[@CR20]^, and copper (Cu)^[@CR21]--[@CR24]^, could not produce the desired CO/H~2~ ratio with high CO~2~RR activity. ",
"In this study, we overcome this challenging issue by using palladium (Pd)-based bimetallic hydrides for electrochemical syngas production with controlled CO/H~2~ ratios. ",
"Pd itself is among the traditional formate-producing metals like tin (Sn) and lead (Pb)^[@CR6],[@CR25]--[@CR27]^. However, once palladium hydride (PdH) forms via the cathodic reactions^[@CR28]^, it is possible to produce the mixture of CO and H~2~ as the major product of CO~2~RR^[@CR2],[@CR29]--[@CR31]^. We compared a series of Pd--M bimetallic catalysts to determine how the presence of the second metal affects the PdH formation and the CO~2~RR performance. ",
"The combined experiments and DFT calculations reveal that the Gibbs free energy difference of \\*HOCO and \\*H, which are the key reaction intermediates for the CO~2~RR and HER, respectively, can be a potential descriptor for predicting the CO~2~RR activity and CO/H~2~ ratio. ",
"Furthermore, our results demonstrate the feasibility of promoting syngas production by alloying Pd with non-precious, first-row transition metals such as Ni and Cu.",
"\n\nResults {#Sec2}\n=======\n\nElectrochemical CO~2~ reduction performance for bimetallic Pd alloys {#Sec3}\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe electrochemical CO~2~RR was performed using a series of 10*wt* % Pd-based bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) supported on Vulkan carbon (C). ",
"The second metals, cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), silver (Ag), and platinum (Pt), were selected as they can make an alloy with Pd at an atomic Pd:M ratio of 8:2. ",
"This ratio was chosen in this study because PdNi in this ratio (i.e., Pd~80~Ni~20~) represented optimal composition for the PdNi catalysts with different ratios (Supplementary Fig.",
" [1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and Supplementary Table [1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Each final sample was named as PdM, where M indicates the second metal used in this study (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, and Pt). ",
"The successful synthesis of bimetallic Pd alloys was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD) analysis (Supplementary Fig.",
" [2a](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}), indicating that these materials kept the same face-centered cubic structure (space group: Fm-3m). ",
"The peak locations for the (111) and (200) planes were identified to follow the Vegard's law. ",
"In the cases of using M with larger atomic radius than Pd (M = Ag and Pt), those peaks shift toward lower 2*θ* values. ",
"On the other hand, those peaks shift toward higher 2*θ* values in the cases of using M with smaller atomic radius (M = Cu, Ni, and Co) (Supplementary Fig.",
" [2b](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}).",
"\n\nThe CO~2~RR activity and the CO/H~2~ ratio of these bimetallic samples were evaluated by using the chronoamperometry technique in CO~2~-saturated 0.5 M sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO~3~) electrolyte with vigorous magnetic stirring at different potentials (Supplementary Fig.",
" [3](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The gaseous product was analyzed using gas chromatography (See the Supplementary Methods), and CO and H~2~ were the two major products. ",
"It is well known that Pd-based catalysts are vulnerable to CO-poisoning^[@CR2],[@CR32],[@CR33]^ due to its strong binding to CO. ",
"However, the transformation of Pd-to-PdH under the CO~2~RR condition, which will be discussed later, reduces the binding energy of CO and thus enables facile CO desorption. ",
"The Faradaic efficiencies (FEs) of CO (FE(CO)) and H~2~ (FE(H~2~)) and CO/H~2~ ratio are plotted versus the applied potential in Supplementary Figs.",
" [4](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and [5](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}, respectively. ",
"Overall, the total FE from CO and H~2~ reached up to \\~80 % at −0.8 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (V~RHE~, here and onward) and \\~100% after −0.9 V~RHE~, consistent with CO and H~2~ being the major products. ",
"Formic acid (HCOOH) as a minor product was the only liquid product at all of the potentials, which thus accounted for the rest of FE. ",
"Its quantification was done by using ^1^H NMR measurements (See the Supplementary Methods). ",
"The FE values of HCOOH were determined to be 5\\~20% from −0.6 to −0.8 V~RHE~ and became negligible at −0.9 V~RHE~ and thereafter. ",
"As the potential is scanned more cathodically, FE(CO) tends to initially increase, then saturate, and finally decrease while FE(H~2~) increases. ",
"This is because CO~2~RR is controlled by the mass transport of dissolved CO~2~, while HER is not limited by the proton transport from H~2~O. The Tafel plots of CO and H~2~ support this interpretation (Supplementary Fig. [",
"6](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The CO/H~2~ ratio and partial current density of CO (J(CO)) also show the similar potential dependent profiles, as displayed in Supplementary Figs.",
" [5](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and [7](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}, respectively. ",
"The FE(CO), CO/H~2~ ratio, and J(CO) at −0.9 V~RHE~ are shown in Fig.",
" [1](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}, which illustrates that the second metal component significantly modifies the CO~2~RR activity of the PdM bimetallic catalysts. ",
"The FE(CO) and CO/H~2~ ratio follow the trend of PdAg \\> PdCu \\> PdNi \\> Pd \\> PdCo \\> PdPt (Fig.",
" [1a, b](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"The J(CO) also follows the same trend except for PdCo (Fig.",
" [1c](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}), which is attributed to its slightly higher total current density compared with the others. ",
"This trend remains the same still even with a different electrolyte (i.e., 0.5 M KHCO~3~) while the values of J(CO) and FE(CO) are enhanced significantly due to the different hydrolysis effects^[@CR21],[@CR22]^ of Na^+^ and K^+^ (Supplementary Fig.",
" [8](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"For comparison, 10 wt% Au NPs supported on C (Au/C), a benchmark electrocatalyst for selective CO~2~-to-CO conversion with low HER activity^[@CR6]^, was also tested and summarized in the Supplementary Information (Supplementary Figs.",
" [3](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and [4](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Under similar electrochemical conditions, Au/C produced primarily CO, with H~2~ being a minor product (e.g., CO/H~2~ ratio of 3.8 at −0.7 V~RHE~). ",
"In contrast, PdM bimetallic catalysts such as PdAg produced both CO and H~2~ with high activity, representing a better catalyst for syngas production than Au/C (Supplementary Note [1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The stability of the Pd and PdNi catalysts was characterized using Transmission electron microscopy (Supplementary Fig.",
" [9](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}), which revealed that both Pd and PdNi maintained the original particle size after CO~2~RR. ",
"Furthermore, the elemental mapping verified that Pd and Ni were in close proximity, consistent with the formation of PdNi alloy both before and after CO~2~RR (Supplementary Fig.",
" [10](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}).Fig. ",
"1Electrocatalytic performance of different catalysts at −0.9 V~RHE~. **a** Faradaic efficiency (FE(CO)) of CO. **",
"b** CO/H~2~ ratio. **",
"c** Partial current density (J(CO)) of CO\n\nIn situ X-ray absorption fine structure analysis {#Sec4}\n------------------------------------------------\n\nIn order to investigate the local environment variations around Pd in the PdM bimetallic electrocatalysts during CO~2~RR, in situ XAFS analysis was performed (Fig.",
" [2](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"} and Supplementary Figs. [",
"11](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}--[14](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}, see the Methods). ",
"The XAFS analysis provides useful information, especially for Pd-based materials, because the hydride formation proceeds concurrently with the reduction of Pd^0^-to-Pd^-1^ and the increase in Pd-Pd distance^[@CR2],[@CR28],[@CR34],[@CR35]^. X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) analyses at the Pd K-edge indicate that, during CO~2~RR, the oxidation state of Pd progressed to −1 for Pd and PdAg (Fig.",
" [2a, b](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"}), implying that the presence of Ag in the Pd lattice did not interfere with the formation of the PdH phase. ",
"Likewise, PdCu also shows the phase transition to PdCu hydride under the same condition (Supplementary Fig.",
" [11](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"On the other hand, the XANES profile for PdPt (Fig.",
" [2c](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"}) shows that the oxidation state of Pd remains almost unchanged throughout the entire potential sweeping. ",
"This might be because Pt in the PdPt alloy has a strong \\*H binding, and consequently, the formation of PdPt hydride phase (i.e., H diffusion into lattice) is no longer favorable. ",
"Such an interpretation is also consistent with the recent report on the inhibitive role of Pt on PdH formation^[@CR34]^. The reduction of Pd is visualized more clearly in the Pd K-edge energy (E~0~) variation versus the applied potentials (Supplementary Fig.",
" [12](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"While the E~0~ values of Pd, PdAg, and PdCu decreased by 1 eV around −0.325 V~RHE~, that of PdPt maintained its original value until −0.525 V~RHE~.Fig. ",
"2In situ XAFS profiles measured at Pd K-edge. **",
"a**--**c** Normalized XANES profiles for **a** Pd, **b** PdAg, and **c** PdPt. **",
"d**--**f** *k*^2^-weighted EXAFS spectra for **d** Pd, **e** PdAg, and **f** PdPt\n\nThe extended XAFS (EXAFS) analyses (Fig.",
" [2d--f](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"} and See the Supplementary Methods) provide information on the structural variations during the PdH phase formation. ",
"The EXAFS fitting profiles are shown in Supplementary Fig.",
" [13](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and the fitting parameters are tabulated in Supplementary Tables [2](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}--[10](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}. ",
"The EXAFS analyses reveal that the distance of Pd-to-Pd/M (M = Ag and Cu) increased gradually from \\~2.75 (at 0.075 V~RHE~) to \\~2.82 Å (at −0.575 V~RHE~), consistent with the volume expansion as a result of hydride formation. ",
"However, PdPt exhibited negligible changes of bond length in both Pd-Pd (2.75 → 2.76 Å) and Pd--Pt (2.71 → 2.74 Å) distances, confirming that the bimetallic PdPt hydride formation is inhibited in the presence of Pt in the PdPt alloy^[@CR34]^. From the combined results of XAFS and electrochemical measurements, the formation of PdH phase is likely a key step for the simultaneous CO and H~2~ production over Pd-based electrocatalysts.",
"\n\nFor reference, in situ XANES analyses were also conducted at the Ag K-edge, Pt L~3~-edge, and Cu K-edge (Supplementary Fig.",
" [14](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The oxidation state of the second M remained unchanged through the entire CO~2~RR condition, suggesting that the hydride formation did not significantly change the electronic properties of the second M.\n\nIn situ X-ray diffraction analysis {#Sec5}\n----------------------------------\n\nIn order to determine the potential for bimetallic PdH phase formation, in situ XRD analyses were conducted for all the bimetallic catalysts (Fig.",
" [3](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"} and Supplementary Figs.",
" [15](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}, [16](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"During the CO~2~RR under the linear sweeping voltammetry (LSV) mode, XRD patterns were obtained at different potentials from 0.2 to −0.7 V~RHE~ with a scan rate of 0.05 mV s^−1^. The potential interval for each XRD spectra in Fig.",
" [3](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"} was 24 mV, which was sufficient to capture the phase transition of Pd (red lines) to PdH (blue lines). ",
"During the CO~2~RR, the peaks shifted toward lower 2*θ* values due to the lattice expansion during the hydride formation (Fig.",
" [3a--e](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"})^[@CR2]^. The onset and ending potentials for hydride formation in PdM depended on the second M. As the peaks in both Pd and PdH phases did not split into two peaks of the elemental constituents (i.e., Pd/M and PdH/M) throughout the entire in situ XRD analyses, Pd and M were randomly distributed as a solid-solution in both phases. ",
"On the other hand, in situ XRD analysis for PdPt shown in Supplementary Fig.",
" [15](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} did not show the presence of hydride phase, consistent with the EXAFS results (Fig.",
" [2](#Fig2){ref-type=\"fig\"}, Supplementary Fig.",
" [13](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}, and Supplementary Tables [8](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}--[9](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}) of the role of Pt in preventing the hydride formation^[@CR34]^. Therefore, the in situ XRD results reveal that the formation of PdH can be tuned by the choice of the second M. Moreover, the tendency of (PdM)H formation potentials on the choice of the second M coincides with their syngas ratios between CO and H~2~ (Fig.",
" [1b](#Fig1){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"Therefore, the bimetallic PdH formation plays an important role in the syngas production with controllable CO/H~2~ ratios.",
"Fig. ",
"3In situ XRD analyses for different catalysts. ",
"In situ XRD profiles for **a** Pd, **b** PdAg, **c** PdCu, **d** PdNi, and **e** PdCo. **",
"f** The schematic energy diagram illustrating their potentials of palladium hydride formation. ",
"In **a**--**e** red and blue lines indicate Pd and PdH phases, respectively. ",
"Green lines indicate their two phase regions. ",
"Asterisk (\\*) marks point out the peaks from the carbon substrate\n\nBased on the results from the combined in situ XRD and XAFS analyses, Pd and M in the series of PdM alloys were kept mixed randomly in a solid-solution even after the bimetallic Pd hydride formation (PdM)H. However, it should be noted that the second M did not change their oxidation states during the phase transition of PdM-to-(PdM)H (Supplementary Fig.",
" [14](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}), suggesting that the presence of M could modify the redox potential of Pd^0^M to (Pd^−1^M)H (as shown in Fig.",
" [3f](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"}) and consequently the CO~2~RR performance.",
"\n\nThe redox potential is directly related to the Fermi energy level (E~F~) of the primary redox center^[@CR36]^, which should be near the empty *d*-band of Pd in this study. ",
"Therefore, the different (PdM)H potentials shown in Fig.",
" [3f](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"} can be useful in explaining the effect of the second M on the observed CO~2~RR activity. ",
"In the case of M = Ag, Cu, and Ni, where CO/H~2~ ratios were enhanced, their (PdM)H formation potentials shifted downward in comparison with PdH (−0.544 V~RHE~ for (PdAg)H and (PdCu)H, −0.424 V~RHE~ for (PdNi)H *vs*. ",
"−0.352 V~RHE~ for PdH). ",
"On the other hand, (PdCo)H with the decreased CO/H~2~ ratios showed the upward shift in the hydride formation potential by \\~ 0.03 V~RHE~. Therefore, it appears that the CO/H~2~ ratios can be effectively controlled by the hydride formation potentials depending on the choice of the second M, as confirmed in the DFT results below.",
"\n\nDensity functional theory calculations {#Sec6}\n--------------------------------------\n\nThe DFT calculations^[@CR37]--[@CR45]^ were performed to gain insight into the effect of the second M in modifying the electronic properties of bimetallic (PdM)H and their electrocatalytic activities toward the HER and CO~2~RR. ",
"First, the shift in the potential for PdH formation observed in in situ XRD analyses (Fig.",
" [3](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"}) can be explained by the formation energies of PdH and (PdM)H phases. ",
"To this end, the hydride formation for Pd and PdM is assumed to occur according to the following reaction ([1](#Equ1){ref-type=\"\"}):$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{Pd}}_4 + {\\mathrm{M}} + 2{\\mathrm{H}}_2 \\to \\left( {{\\mathrm{Pd}}_3{\\mathrm{M}}} \\right){\\mathrm{H}}_4 + {\\mathrm{Pd}}$$\\end{document}$$\n\nThus, the hydride formation energy (ΔE) is calculated as the following Eq. ([",
"2](#Equ2){ref-type=\"\"}):$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$\\Delta E = \\left[ {E\\left( {\\left( {{\\mathrm{Pd}}_3{\\mathrm{M}}} \\right){\\mathrm{H}}_4} \\right) + E\\left( {{\\mathrm{Pd}}} \\right)} \\right]-\\left[ {E\\left( {{\\mathrm{Pd}}_4} \\right) + E\\left( {\\mathrm{M}} \\right) + 2E\\left( {{\\mathrm{H}}_2} \\right)} \\right]$$\\end{document}$$where, E(Pd~4~) is the DFT calculated total energy of a Pd unit cell in the face-centered cubic crystal structure, E((Pd~3~M)H~4~) is the DFT calculated total energy of the (PdM)H unit cell in the *L*1~2~ crystal structure, E(Pd/M) is the cohesive energy of Pd/M and E(H~2~) is the DFT calculated total energy of H~2~ in the gas phase.",
"\n\nSupplementary Table [11](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} shows the DFT calculated *ΔE* values of bimetallic (PdM)H in the current study. ",
"It is found that reactive metals, such as Pt, Co, and Ni, which would bind H strongly, favor the (PdM)H formation compared to less reactive metals such as Ag and Cu. ",
"A positive *ΔE* value indicates that, from the viewpoint of experiments, a more negative potential is required for (PdM)H formation. ",
"In this regard, the DFT calculated trend in *ΔE* of (PdM)H (i.e. in the order of favorable hydride formation, Pt \\> Co \\> Ni \\> Pd \\> Cu \\> Ag) correlates relatively well with the experimentally observed positive potential shift in (PdM)H formation (PdCo \\> Pd \\> PdNi \\> PdCu ≈ PdAg). ",
"The main exception is for the case of PdPt, which is again attributed to the inhibitive role of Pt on hydride formation.",
"\n\nAdditional DFT calculations^[@CR14]^ were performed to determine the binding energies of the HER intermediate (i.e. \\*H) and CO~2~RR intermediates (i.e. \\*HOCO and \\*CO) over PdH and (PdM)H surfaces (Fig.",
" [4a--c](#Fig4){ref-type=\"fig\"} and Supplementary Table [12](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The particle size for all samples is in the range from 5 to 10 nm (Supplementary Fig.",
" [17](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}), thus enabling us to use their (111) surface as a platform for further calculations. ",
"The binding energies of intermediates calculated on second M sites are used in the DFT discussion to study the immediate effect on HER and CO~2~RR due to the presence of second M on the bimetallic catalyst surfaces (Supplementary Table [13](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The DFT calculations reveal a correlation between \\*H and \\*HOCO binding energies (Supplementary Fig.",
" [18](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Both \\*H and \\*HOCO adsorption steps are difficult on (PdAg)H and (PdCu)H compared to PdH. On the other hand, (PdCo)H and (PdPt)H are predicted to show favorable adsorption of \\*H and \\*HOCO compared to PdH. For (PdNi)H, \\*H adsorption is slightly unfavorable while \\*HOCO adsorption is slightly favorable compared to PdH. Overall, the choice of the second M modified the adsorption energy of \\*H more than that of \\*HOCO (Fig.",
" [4d, e](#Fig4){ref-type=\"fig\"}).Fig. ",
"4Density functional theory results. **",
"a**--**c** DFT optimized configurations of **a** \\*H, **b** \\*HOCO, and **c** \\*CO adsorption on (PdM)H. Pd (gray), M (blue), O (red), and H (pink). ",
"\\*H is shown within dotted red circle in (**a)**. **",
"d**, **e** The changes in free energy (ΔG) for the rate limiting steps in **e** HER and **e** CO~2~RR. **",
"f** A plot of the free energy difference of \\*H and \\*HOCO adsorptions (ΔG (\\*H)−ΔG (\\*HOCO)) versus J~ECSA~(CO) at −1.0 V~RHE~\n\nThe free energy (ΔG) diagrams for the HER and CO~2~RR in Supplementary Fig.",
" [19](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} were then calculated using the binding energies of reaction intermediates with their most stable adsorption configurations as displayed in Fig.",
" [4a--c](#Fig4){ref-type=\"fig\"}. ",
"As an effort to find a key descriptor for the CO~2~RR with controlled CO/H~2~ ratios, ΔG of each reaction intermediate was first plotted vs. the current density of the corresponding products J~ESCA~(CO) and J~ECSA~(H~2~) normalized by the electrochemical surface area (ECSA) in Supplementary Fig.",
" [20](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and Supplementary Fig.",
" [21](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} (See the Methods and Supplementary Table [14](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"It was noted that, while ΔG(\\*H) could be linearly correlated with J~ECSA~(H~2~), J~ECSA~(CO) could not be scaled with any of the individual value of ΔG (\\*H), ΔG(\\*HOCO) or ΔG(\\*CO).",
"\n\nThe ΔG diagrams in Supplementary Fig.",
" [19](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} show that the \\*H and \\*HOCO adsorption is the rate limiting step for HER and CO~2~RR, respectively, suggesting that their free energies of adsorption should play an important role in determining the CO/H~2~ ratio in the product. ",
"Therefore, the combined effects on \\*H and \\*HOCO adsorption most likely determine the reaction pathways over (PdM)H between the HER and CO~2~RR. ",
"As shown in Fig.",
" [4f](#Fig4){ref-type=\"fig\"}, the free energy difference between \\*H and \\*HOCO, i.e., ΔG(\\*H)−ΔG(\\*HOCO), correlates well with the trends in the CO~2~RR activity (i.e., J~ECSA~(CO) at −1.0 V~RHE~) observed in experiments. ",
"Note again that PdPt does not follow the trend due to the inhibitive role of Pt for hydride formation^[@CR34]^. However, the same consideration using \\*H or \\*CO adsorption alone does not correlate with J~ECSA~(CO) or J~ECSA~(H~2~) as displayed in Supplementary Figs.",
" [22](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and [23](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}. ",
"The binding energy of O has been predicted as a potential descriptor of CO~2~RR^[@CR46],[@CR47]^. However, in the current study O reacts with surface H to form OH on (PdM)H. The DFT calculated OH formation energy does not correlate with the experimental J~ECSA~(CO) or J~ECSA~(H~2~) (Supplementary Fig.",
" [24](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} and Supplementary Table [15](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}), suggesting that the binding energy of O/OH is not a descriptor for CO~2~RR over the (PdM)H catalysts. ",
"Similarly, a previous study^[@CR48]^ did not observe a consistent trend between ΔG(\\*H)−ΔG(\\*CO) and J(CO)/J(H~2~) of Cu-deposited Au. ",
"Thus, the combined experimental observations and DFT calculations indicate that ΔG(\\*H)−ΔG(\\*HOCO) can be used as a potential descriptor of CO~2~RR activities on Pd-based bimetallic hydrides. ",
"Hence, the CO~2~RR would be accelerated when ΔG(\\*H)−ΔG(\\*HOCO) is positive (e.g. on (PdAg)H and (PdCu)H), due to destabilized \\*H adsorption and/or stabilized \\*HOCO adsorption while the CO~2~RR would be decelerated when ΔG(\\*H)−ΔG(\\*HOCO) is negative (e.g. on (PdCo)H) due to stabilized \\*H binding and an enhanced HER and/or destabilized \\*HOCO adsorption. ",
"The ∆G values of the \\*HCOO species, which is a key intermediate for HCOOH formation, over PdH and (PdM)H were calculated (Supplementary Table [16](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"For those catalysts that are favorable for CO production, the formation of the \\*HCOO intermediate is slightly favored over \\*HOCO. ",
"However, considering the low yield of formic acid at high overpotentials, the DFT results suggest that the production of CO could also be potentially promoted from the \\*HCOO pathway. ",
"While more detailed study using in situ infrared and Raman spectroscopies will be needed to further characterize the surface intermediates, the DFT results in Supplementary Table [16](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"} suggest that both \\*HCOO and \\*HOCO intermediates potentially lead to CO production. ",
"Additional DFT calculations performed on the (100) surfaces of PdH and (PdNi)H show a similar trend in BE(\\*H)--BE(\\*HOCO) compared to the corresponding (111) surfaces (Supplementary Table [17](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"Thus, the (111) surface used in DFT modeling is a reasonable representation in identifying trends of relatively large nanoparticles.",
"\n\nDiscussion {#Sec7}\n==========\n\nIn summary, we have demonstrated the modifying effect of alloying Pd with a second M on the phase transition of bimetallic Pd-to-PdH, leading to systematic trends in the CO~2~RR to syngas with controlled CO/H~2~ ratios. ",
"The combined electrochemical evaluation, in situ characterization and DFT calculations reveal that the difference of ΔG of \\*H and \\*HOCO (i.e., ΔG(\\*H)--ΔG(\\*HOCO)) is a potential descriptor for CO~2~RR. ",
"DFT calculations also show that the dependence of ΔG(\\*H) on the second M is more sensitive than that of ΔG(\\*HOCO). ",
"Although this study was focused on the case of bimetallic Pd hydrides, the trends from the current study should be also helpful in optimizing other catalytic systems with their different binding affinities toward competing HER and CO~2~RR reactions. ",
"Furthermore, the promising results on PdNi and PdCu reveal the possibility of reducing Pd loading by alloying Pd with non-precious metals.",
"\n\nMethods {#Sec8}\n=======\n\nPreparation of Pd-based bimetallic nanoparticles on carbon {#Sec9}\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\nAll reagents were used without purification. ",
"Unless otherwise noted, all of the chemicals were purchased from Sigma Aldrich. ",
"The Pd-based bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) supported on porous carbon (C) were prepared with a simple co-precipitation method^[@CR17],[@CR49]^. First, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) functionalized C powder (Vulkan XC-72, Cabot) was prepared by mixing 135 mg of C dispersed in ethylene glycol (EG) with 500 mg of CTAB. ",
"The mixture was sonicated for 30 min while the temperature was carefully monitored under 30 ^°^C to prevent an undesired precipitation. ",
"Next, 10 wt% Pd-based NPs on C (Pd~0.8~M~0.2~ on C, M = Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, and Pt) were prepared by adding an aqueous solution (5 mL) containing the calculated amount of the precursors (potassium palladium chloride (K~2~PdCl~4~), cobalt sulfate heptahydrate (CoSO~4~·7H~2~O), nickel sulfate hexahydrate (NiSO~4~·6H~2~O), copper nitrate trihydrate (Cu(NO~3~)~2~·3H~2~O), silver nitrate (AgNO~3~), and tetraammineplatinum nitrate (Pt(NH~3~)~4~(NO~3~)~2~)) and 1 M sodium hydroxide solution (NaOH, 1 mL). ",
"This solution was refluxed at 90 ^°^C for 2 h with vigorous stirring to reduce the precursors to the corresponding metallic NPs. ",
"Once the flask was cooled down, the precipitate was filtered and washed by using the vacuum filtration method with ethanol and deionized water. ",
"The obtained powder was vacuum-dried overnight at 80 ^°^C. Then, the final product of 10 wt% Pd-based bimetallic NPs on C was obtained and denoted as PdM for the bimetallic cases. ",
"Inductively-coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES, Optima 8300, PerkinElmer) confirmed the successful synthesis of bimetallic PdM with desired Pd/M atomic ratios (See Supplementary Table [1](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"For the Au/C sample, gold chloride (AuCl~3~) was used as a metal precursor. ",
"Except for the reflux temperature (25 ^°^C) and the molarity of NaOH solution (0.01 M), the other conditions are the same with the aforementioned procedure. ",
"High resolution transmission electron microscopy (Talos ×200, FEI) was used to characterize the morphologies and elemental distributions of the samples.",
"\n\nPreparation of working electrode {#Sec10}\n--------------------------------\n\nFor the preparation of working electrode, the obtained powder was dispersed in the mixture of DI water and isopropanol solution (*v*:*v* = 1:1) containing 0.05 % Nafion with a concentration of 2 mg mL^−1^. After sociation for 20 min, the catalyst ink was dropped on Toray carbon paper (TGP-H-060, 10% waterproofed) and dried. ",
"The areal mass loading was 100 μg cm^−2^.\n\nElectrochemical measurements {#Sec11}\n----------------------------\n\nLeak-free Ag/AgCl (EDAQ, ET-072) and graphite paper were used as reference and counter electrodes, respectively. ",
"The 0.25 M sodium carbonate (Na~2~CO~3~) solution was bubbled with CO~2~ gas overnight to prepare 0.5 M sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO~3~) solution, which was utilized as an electrolyte. ",
"The potassium-containing electrolyte (0.5 M KHCO~3~) was prepared using the same method. ",
"The pH values of these electrolytes were 7.35 after saturation. ",
"More details regarding the experimental procedures^[@CR2],[@CR17]^ are provided in the Supplementary Information.",
"\n\nFor obtaining electrochemical surface area (ECSA)^[@CR50]^, CO-stripping experiment was conducted. ",
"Each electrode was first cycled in an Ar-saturated 0.1 M NaOH solution for 5 cycles in the range from 0.1 V~RHE~ to 1.1 V~RHE~ with a scan rate of 20 mV s^−1^. Then, CO was adsorbed on the electrode by holding a potential of 0.1 V~RHE~ for 10 min in a CO-saturated 0.1 M NaOH solution. ",
"Then, the CO stripping curve was achieved after purging Ar for 20 min in a range from 0.1 V~RHE~ to 1.1 V~RHE~ with a scan rate of 20 mV s^−1^. The charge densities for CO stripping were assumed to be 420 μC cm^−2^. For comparison, the values of ECSA using the reduction capacitance (430 μC cm^−2^) of surface Pd(OH)~2~ were calculated based on a previous report^[@CR51]^. The calculated ECSA values are tabulated in Supplementary Table [14](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}.",
"\n\nIn situ measurements {#Sec12}\n--------------------\n\nThe lab-made acryl kit was used for the in situ X-ray measurements (Supplementary Fig.",
" [25](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}). ",
"The potential range used for the in situ X-ray measurements was determined after confirming the potential range sufficient for transforming Pd into the PdH phase.",
"\n\nIn situ XAFS measurements^[@CR52],[@CR53]^ were conducted in the 2--2 beamline (for Pd K-edge, Ag K-edge, and Pt L~3~-edge) at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and in the 9-BM beamline (for Cu K-edge) at Advanced Photon Source (APS). ",
"While transmission mode was used at Pd K-edge, fluorescent mode was used at the other element's edges, mainly because of the diluted amount of elemental content. ",
"The typical duration for a single spectrum was \\~17 min. ",
"During all of the XAFS measurements, the spectrum of each reference metal foil (i.e., Pd, Ag, Pt, and Cu) was simultaneously recorded, and was further used for calibrating the edge energy (E~0~) of the sample under analysis. ",
"More details regarding the experimental procedures and data analyses^[@CR54]^ are provided in the Supplementary Information.",
"\n\nIn situ XRD measurements were performed in the 17-BM-B beamline at APS. ",
"A Perkin-Elmer amorphous silicon detector was used under the transmission mode. ",
"The wavelength was 0.24141 Å. The duration elapsed for an individual diffraction pattern was controlled to 2 min. ",
"The obtained 2D ring patterns were integrated and converted to 1D diffraction patterns by using GSAS-II software^[@CR55]^. The areal mass loading was *c.a*. ",
"8.5 mg cm^−2^ to achieve the sufficient diffraction intensity. ",
"A laboratory-made H-shaped acryl cell was used for electrochemical operations. ",
"During the measurements, CO~2~ gas was continuously bubbled into the electrolyte. ",
"The other conditions were the same as in the electrochemical measurements. ",
"The potential was scanned at a scan rate of 0.05 mV s^−1^ under LSV mode in a range from 0.2 to −0.7 V~RHE~. So, the potential interval for each XRD pattern was 6 mV. Every fourth XRD pattern (=24 mV) was chosen in Fig.",
" [3](#Fig3){ref-type=\"fig\"}.",
"\n\nFaradaic efficiency and partial current density calculations {#Sec13}\n------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe Faradaic efficiency (FE) for CO (FE(CO)) was calculated by using the following Eqs. ([",
"3](#Equ3){ref-type=\"\"}--[6](#Equ6){ref-type=\"\"}) ^[@CR2],[@CR17]^:$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$N_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{in}}\\,{\\mathrm{gaseous}}\\,{\\mathrm{phase}}} \\right) = {\\mathrm{C}}_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left[ {\\mathrm{\\% }} \\right] \\times {\\mathrm{17}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{mL}}} \\right){\\mathrm{/22}}{\\mathrm{.4}}\\,\\left( {{\\mathrm{L}}\\,{\\mathrm{mol}}^{{\\mathrm{ - 1}}}} \\right)$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$N_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{dissolved}}\\,{\\mathrm{in}}\\,{\\mathrm{electrolyte}}} \\right) = \\left( {{\\mathrm{K}}_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}} \\right) \\times {\\mathrm{50}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{mL}}} \\right) \\times {\\mathrm{1}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{g/mL}}} \\right){\\mathrm{/18}}\\,\\left( {{\\mathrm{g}}\\,{\\mathrm{mol}}^{{\\mathrm{ - 1}}}} \\right) \\times {\\mathrm{C}}_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left[ {\\mathrm{\\% }} \\right]$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$N_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{total}}} \\right) = N_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{in}}\\,{\\mathrm{gaseous}}\\,{\\mathrm{phase}}} \\right) + N_{{\\mathrm{CO}}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{dissolved}}\\,{\\mathrm{in}}\\,{\\mathrm{electrolyte}}} \\right)$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{FE}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{CO}}} \\right)\\left[ {\\mathrm{\\% }} \\right] = \\frac{{2 \\times 96485\\left( {{\\mathrm{C}}{\\mathrm{mol}}^{ - 1}} \\right) \\times N_{CO}({\\mathrm{total}})}}{{{\\int}_{\\!\\!0}^t {idt} }} \\times 100$$\\end{document}$$Where *N*~CO~ (in gaseous phase) is the amount of CO in the empty head space at the cathodic compartment of the cell. *",
"N*~CO~ (dissolved in electrolyte) is the amount of CO dissolved in the catholyte estimated using the Henry's law. ",
"The constant (*K*~CO~ = 1.774 × 10^--5^) is the molar solubility of CO in water at CO partial pressure of 1 bar and room temperature. *",
"C*~CO~ is the concentration (%) of CO in the empty head space, which is determined from GC analysis. ",
"For FE(CO) calculations, Faradaic constant (96485 C mol^−1^) and the number of electron (2) for a single CO production were used. *",
"i* and *t* are the current (Ampere) and electrolysis time (seconds) measured by the Potentiostat, respectively. ",
"The same procedure was used for calculating FE for H~2~ (FE(H~2~)) except for its different molar solubility in water (i.e., *K*~H2~ = 1.411 × 10^--5^).",
"\n\nThe partial current densities of CO (J(CO)) and H~2~ (J(H~2~)) were calculated based on the following Eqs. ([",
"7](#Equ7){ref-type=\"\"} and [8](#Equ8){ref-type=\"\"}) ^[@CR2],[@CR17]^:$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{J}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{CO}}} \\right)\\left[ {{\\mathrm{mA}}\\,{\\mathrm{cm}}^{{\\mathrm{ - 2}}}} \\right] = {\\mathrm{FE}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{CO}}} \\right) \\times \\frac{{{\\int}_{\\!\\!0}^t {idt} }}{A} \\div 100$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{J}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{H}}_{\\mathrm{2}}} \\right)\\left[ {{\\mathrm{mA}}\\,{\\mathrm{cm}}^{{\\mathrm{ - 2}}}} \\right] = {\\mathrm{FE}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{H}}_{\\mathrm{2}}} \\right) \\times \\frac{{{\\int}_{\\!\\!0}^t {idt} }}{A} \\div 100$$\\end{document}$$\n\nA is the geometrical area of the working electrode. ",
"Based on these partial current densities, Tafel plots were constructed in Supplementary Fig.",
" [6](#MOESM1){ref-type=\"media\"}. ",
"The error bars in FE and J calculations were obtained from repeated gas analyses using GC.",
"\n\nComputational methods {#Sec14}\n---------------------\n\nSpin unrestricted periodic DFT calculations^[@CR38],[@CR39]^ were performed at the GGA level within the PAW-PW91 formalism^[@CR37],[@CR41]^ using the Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package (VASP) code^[@CR42],[@CR43]^. A 5 × 5 × 1 Monkhorst-Pack grid^[@CR44]^ for k-points and a plane wave cut-off energy of 400 eV were used for total energy calculations.",
"\n\nThe PdH was modeled using the NaCl crystal structure. ",
"The Pd-based bimetallic hydrides ((PdM)H; M = Ag, Cu, Ni, Pt and Co) were modeled using the cubic (Pd~3~M)H~4~-*L*1~2~ crystal structures. ",
"The energetically most stable low index (111) surface of PdH/PdMH was chosen in the DFT calculations to represent the surface of relatively large nanoparticles (5--10 nm) in the experiments. ",
"The H-terminated PdH(111) and Pd~3~MH~4~(111) surfaces were modeled using a six bilayers (a bilayer contains a unit of one Pd/M layer and one H layer) 2 × 2 surface slabs. ",
"A vacuum layer of \\~14 Å thick was added in the slab cell along the direction perpendicular to the surface in order to minimize the artificial interactions between the surface and its periodic images. ",
"During geometry optimization, atoms in the top three layers were allowed to relax while atoms in the bottom three layers were fixed until the Hellman-Feynman force on each ion was smaller than 0.01 eV Å^−1^. The binding energy (BE) of an adsorbate was calculated as the following Eq. ([",
"9](#Equ9){ref-type=\"\"}):$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{BE}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{adsorbate}}} \\right) = {\\mathrm{E}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{slab}} + {\\mathrm{adsorbate}}} \\right)-{\\mathrm{E}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{slab}}} \\right)-{\\mathrm{E}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{adsorbate}}} \\right)$$\\end{document}$$where E(slab + adsorbate), E(slab) and E(adsorbate) are the total energy of slab with adsorbate, the energy of clean slab and the energy of adsorbate in the gas phase, respectively.",
"\n\nThe Gibbs free energy (G) of a species is calculated as the following Eq. ([",
"10](#Equ10){ref-type=\"\"}) ^[@CR45]^:$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{G}} = {\\mathrm{E}} + {\\mathrm{ZPE}} - {\\mathrm{TS}}$$\\end{document}$$\n\nHere, E is the total energy of a species obtained from DFT calculations, ZPE and S are the zero-point energy and entropy of a species, respectively, and *T* = 298.15 K.\n\nThe free energy diagram of CO~2~RR to CO is calculated by considering the following sequential steps ([11](#Equ11){ref-type=\"\"}--[13](#Equ13){ref-type=\"\"}) ^[@CR14],[@CR56],[@CR57]^:$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{CO}}_{\\mathrm{2}} + \\left( {{\\mathrm{H}}^{\\mathrm{ + }} + {\\mathrm{e}}^{\\mathrm{ - }}} \\right) + \\ast \\to \\ast {\\mathrm{HOCO}}$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$\\ast {\\mathrm{HOCO}} + \\left( {{\\mathrm{H}}^{\\mathrm{ + }} + {\\mathrm{e}}^{\\mathrm{ - }}} \\right) \\to \\ast {\\mathrm{CO}} + {\\mathrm{H}}_{\\mathrm{2}}{\\mathrm{O}}$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$\\ast {\\mathrm{CO}} \\to {\\mathrm{CO}} + \\ast$$\\end{document}$$\n\nThe free energy diagram of the HER, which inevitably takes place in aqueous electrolytes, was calculated via the following sequential steps ([14](#Equ14){ref-type=\"\"}, [15](#Equ15){ref-type=\"\"}) ^[@CR14]^:$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{H}}^{\\mathrm{ + }} + {\\mathrm{e}}^{\\mathrm{ - }} + \\ast \\to \\ast {\\mathrm{H}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{Volmer}}\\,{\\mathrm{step}}} \\right)$$\\end{document}$$$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$$\\ast {\\mathrm{H}} + {\\mathrm{H}}^ + + {\\mathrm{e}}^{\\mathrm{ - }} \\to {\\mathrm{H}}_{\\mathrm{2}} + \\ast \\left( {{\\mathrm{Heyrovsky}}\\,{\\mathrm{step}}} \\right)$$\\end{document}$$\n\nThe \\*OH formation energy on the (PdM)H (111) surface was calculated as the following Eq. ([",
"16](#Equ16){ref-type=\"\"}):$$\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\n \\usepackage{amsmath}\n \\usepackage{wasysym} \n \\usepackage{amsfonts} \n \\usepackage{amssymb} \n \\usepackage{amsbsy}\n \\usepackage{mathrsfs}\n \\usepackage{upgreek}\n \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\n \\begin{document}$${\\mathrm{OH}}\\,{\\mathrm{formation}}\\,{\\mathrm{energy}} = {\\mathrm{E}}\\left[ {{\\mathrm{OH}}-\\left( {{\\mathrm{PdM}}} \\right){\\mathrm{H}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{111}}} \\right)}\\right]-{\\mathrm{E}}\\left[ {\\left( {{\\mathrm{PdM}}} \\right){\\mathrm{H}}\\left( {{\\mathrm{111}}} \\right)} \\right]-{\\mathrm{1/2}}\\,{\\mathrm{E}}\\left[ {{\\mathrm{O}}_{\\mathrm{2}}} \\right]$$\\end{document}$$\n\nwhere, E\\[OH-(PdM)H(111)\\], E\\[(PdM)H(111\\], and E\\[O~2~\\] are total energies of (PdM)H(111) surfaces with OH, clean (PdM)H(111) surface and O~2~ molecule in gas phase, respectively.",
"\n\nSupplementary information\n=========================\n\n {#Sec15}\n\nSupplementary Information Peer Review File\n\n**Peer review information**: *Nature Communications* thanks the anonymous reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work. ",
"Peer reviewer reports are available.",
"\n\n**Publisher's note:** Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.",
"\n\nThese authors contribute equally: Ji Hoon Lee, Shyam Kattel.",
"\n\nSupplementary information\n=========================\n\n**Supplementary Information** accompanies this paper at 10.1038/s41467-019-11352-0.",
"\n\nThis research was supported by the US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Science, Catalysis Science Program (Grant No. ",
"DE-FG02-13ER16381). ",
"We acknowledge technical supports with the 2-2 (XAFS) at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL, Contract No. ",
"DE-AC02-76SF00515), 9-BM (XAFS), and 17-BM-B (XRD) beamlines at Advanced Photon Source (APS, Contract No. ",
"DE-AC02-06CH11357). ",
"In addition, we acknowledge the technical support and computational resources from Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Contract No. ",
"DE-SC0012704). ",
"J.H.L. acknowledges the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant No. ",
"NRF-2017R1A6A3A03004202).",
"\n\nJ.H.L. and S.K. contributed equally to this work; J.H.L. synthesized materials and carried out the characterizations and electrochemical evaluations; S.K. conducted DFT calculations; J.H.L., Z.J., Z.X., S.Y. and B.M.T. analyzed the gas quantifications; J.H.L., Z.X., S.Y., W.X. and N.S.M. conducted the synchrotron-based experiment; J.H.L., S.K., Z.J. and J.G.C. designed the experiments and analyzed the data; J.H.L., S.K., and J.G.C. wrote the paper; and J.G.C. supervised the whole project.",
"\n\nThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.",
"\n\nThe authors declare no competing interests.",
"\n"
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