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Command and unload it there."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw, a lurking reporter snatch the
handphone off his radio and begin talking; it would be stated
authoritatively that Merlin was at Force Command and would be uncovered
as soon as special equipment from Koshchei arrived.

Everybody at the long table was shouting at everybody else. The Jurgen
and Janicot Companies wanted to buy ships from Koshchei Exploitation &
Development. The Alpha-Interplanetary director, who was also a
vice-president[Pg 148] of Transcontinent & Overseas, opposed that;
another director of A-I, who was also board chairman of Koshchei
Exploitation & Development, wanted to sell ships to anybody who had the
price, the Transcontinent & Overseas man was calling him a traitor to
the company, and one of the stockbrokers, who was also a vice-president
of Trisystem Investments and a director of Trisystem & Interstellar
Spacelines, was wanting to know which company. And a banker who was