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"Sested Vyhousky

"Rescue units are on the site," explained Schiller "We should know more within the hour"

The expression on Senator Pitts face darkened "I have a dire suspicion that Hala Kaht She was due back at United Nations headquarters from Europe for next week's session of the General Assembly"

"I believe George is right," said Vyhousky "Two of our Soviet delegates were traveling in her party"

"Madness," said Schiller, wearily shaking his head "Uttera planeload of UN people?"

No one answered i moment's silence

Korolenko stared, expressionless, at the center of the table Then he spoke in a quiet voice

The Senator stared the Russian straight in the eye "You knew"

"I guessed"

"You think Yazid ordered Kamil's death?"

"I can only say our intelligence sources discovered there was an Isla an attempt"

"And you stood by and said nothing while fifty innocent people died-"

"A miscalculation," admitted Korolenko "We did not knohen the assassination was to take place It was assuypt-not from Yazid lf, but rather his fanatical followers Yazid has never been tied to any terrorist acts

Your profile of him reads the same as ours: a brilliant man who thinkqs of himself as a Muslim Gandhi"

"So much for KGB and CIA profiles," said Vyhousky candidly