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The Russians were not about to let loose

"I find this ," said Vyhousky

"A new posture had to come sometime," Nichols confessed "The latest projections put United States oil reserves at eighty billion barrels

With prices pushing fifty dollars a barrel, our oil coram And, of course, we can still count on Mexican and South Aer have to rely on the Middle East for oil So we're cutting bait If the Soviet governift"

Korolenko couldn't believe what he was hearing His ingrained wariness made him skeptical But he knew the Americans too well to doubt they would bluff or nitude

Senator Pitt had his doubts, too, about the ga to the Soviet representatives There was a strong possibility oil would not flow over the Rio Grande when A for the starter's gun

Egypt was cursed with a Dark Ages fanatic like Yazid But Mexico had its madman in a Topiltzin, a Benito JuArez/Eious state based on Aztec culture Like Yazid, Topiltzin was supported by millions of his nation's poor, and he was also inches away froovernment

Where were all thethese devils? He an to deal

"Five card stud, gentlemen, jokers wild"

Huge figures rose up in the eerie silence of the night and gazed through e for soid figures stood as tall as a two-story building, their grihted by a full moon

A thousand years ago they had supported a temple roof that sat on top of the five-step pyramid of Quetzalcoatl in the Toltec city of Tula The teone but the pyraists The ruins stretched along a low ridge, and during the city's glory sixtythousand people lived and wa

lked on its streets

Few visitors found their way to the site, and those who took the trouble were awed by TVIa's haunted desolation

The h the dead city as a solitary man climbed the steep steps of the pyramid to the stone statues at the summit He was dressed in a suit and tie and carried a leather attached case

At each of the five terraces he stopped for a few mo the walls Hu les shredded hu an altar carved with skulls and crossbones, symbols used in later centuries by pirates of the Caribbean