William Tuning - Terro-Human - Fuzzy 04 - Fuzzy Bones

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FUZZY REDUX
Chapter 1
"Tis a pity she's a whore," the Marine said.
"Don't bet your ass or your pension on it," the priest said.
The two of them were perched at the bar of the first-class passengers' lounge
on the City of Asgard, outbound for Zarathustra. They sipped their drinks and
chatted while the rest of the first-class passengers "ooohed" and "ahhhed" at
the ever-changing panoramas of space that were presented in the observation
screens around the edge of the lounge deck.
The Marine nodded toward the object of the conversation, a strawberry blonde
named-correction-calling herself Christiana Stone. "That might be your first
convert on Zarathustra," he said.
The Marine was Master Gunnery Sergeant of Fleet Marines Philip Helton. The
priest preferred to be called The Rev.
They had hit it off immediately. The Rev was dressed like a priest-collar and
all-but thought like a Marine-one who had been able to take the time to absorb
and appreciate some of the galaxy's variety of culture.
You can take the boy out of the Marines, Helton had thought when he met him,
but you can't take the Marine out of the boy. Retired, perhaps. Officer,
maybe. Tough, yes.
The Rev snorted derisively. "Do the old Magdalene caper? Not a chance."
"Why not?" Helton said. "Souls are where you find 'em."
"Several reasons," The Rev replied, as he chewed noisily on an ice cube from
his drink. "First, it's not my style. Round the souls up every spring, put The
Brand on them, and drive them to market? That's a mug's game. Second;
unnecessary. If that young thing is a pros tie, then I'm the Archbishop of
Nifflheim."
"You sound pretty sure of yourself," Helton said.
The Rev snorted again. "My lad, I daresay you've observed just about as many
whores in your profession as I have in mine. What the lady says she is and
what she is don't have to come to the same thing." He wagged his finger as
Helton started to interrupt. "She may, however, intend to become one when we
get to Zarathustra."
"But you don't think she's a-ummmmmm- journeyman," Helton said.
The Rev slapped his hand lightly on the bar and leaned forward slightly. "Of
course not! " he said quietly. "Otherwise she would have been working the
ship. Lots of lonely business types in the first-class. A young lady with her
looks and just the slightest amount of enterprise could rack up quite a bundle
during a six-month hypertrip."
"That's where you've missed," Helton said with a chuckle. "You don't have all
the data to draw a conclusion."
The Rev's face took on an expression of mock menace. "Well, son, you get to be
pretty damned observant in my trade."
"And in my trade," Helton said, "I travel quite a bit of the time by
commercial carrier."
"So?" The Rev was not impressed.
"So I happen to know the ship captain on this trip. His name is Hermann
Kaltenbrunner and he makes the Orthodox-Monophysites look like a bunch of
reckless hedonists. I was on the City of Malverton once-when the old boy was
stalking his quarterdeck-and I saw him put a professional gambler out the
airlock for starting up a card game on Sunday."
"Great Ghu!" The Rev gasped. "He does sound to be just a trifle on the
puritanical side. Uh-what happened to the rest of the players?"
"Nothing," Helton said flatly. "They were not professional card-players. Oh,
they got a sermon about evil-doing that would set fire to your underwear, but
that was about it."
"So someone tipped her off mighty quick," The Rev said, "perhaps in hopes of
receiving some-ahhhh-non-professional thanks."
Helton smiled. "Oh, I don't know. There are people who just have that old soft
spot in them."
"Hunh!" The Rev grumped. "I 'd hate to have to hold my breath between meeting
the first one and the next one."
"Now that you've muffed your first great deduction," Helton said, "what do you
think her game is?"
The Rev shrugged and swigged from his drink. "She might be a spoiled rich kid
who's out to get even with Mommy and Daddy-come home from Zarathustra with a 1
bundle of money and rub their noses in how it was earned. Or, she might have a
decrepit old Mum back home on Terra, and this is the only way she can earn
enough sols fast enough to let the old lady live out her last years in style
and respectability."
"Sadie Thompson, and all that," Helton mused.
"Star-travel makes strange bedfellows," The Rev said. He rapped his knuckles
on the bar for two more drinks. "Who was that you were quoting a minute ago?"
"You mean, 'Tis a pity . . .'?" Helton asked.
The Rev nodded.
"John Ford," Helton said.
The Rev stroked his chin a moment. "John Ford the First Century screenplay
director?"
Helton smiled. "John Ford the obscure Elizabethan dramatist; Fourth Century
Pre-Atomic."
The Rev's eyebrows shot up. "Pretty exotic reading for a Gunnie."
Helton looked at him levelly. "I get a lot of time for reading," he said.
"So do I," The Rev said, "so do I."
Chapter 2
Helton smiled as he recalled the conversation, which took place only a few
days out from Terra.
He stood, now, with his feet apart, his hands clasped behind his back, and
rocked up and down on the balls of his feet. It was a habit of his which
tended to cause nervousness in units and commands he was auditing; one of the
principal assets in his trade was the ability to keep people just a little bit
off balance.
At one point in his life he had owned a pair of boots which squeaked softly as
he rocked on the balls of his feet. They had been among his most favored
possessions, because with them he could, at will, cause others to be visibly
disturbed in his presence.
There was no one to audit at the moment. There was not even another Terran
human on the first-class lounge deck; only Philip Helton standing in front of
the armor-glass observation screen, auditing the star-pinioned darkness of
space beyond the vessel-and rocking slightly on the balls of his feet.
One of the moons of Zarathustra was slowly traversing the screen, but at this
distance Helton couldn't tell which one. It might be Xerxes, the site of his
next assignment at the huge Navy base that occupied all of it; or it might be
Darius, where Terra-Baldur-Marduk Spacelines maintained Zarathustra's
commercial port.
The City of Asgard would dock on Darius in about two hours-just in time to
disrupt everyone's lunch schedule.
Helton turned toward the small noise behind him.
"Good morning, Sergeant," Christiana Stone said, as she walked across the
carpeted deck toward him.
"I would think," he said, "that after six months of travel in hyperspace, you
might not find it improper to call me by my first name."
The dim starlight from the observation screen reflected on her reddish-blond
hair as she smiled good-naturedly. "I suppose so-Phil," she replied. "I find
it difficult to be informal with people, though. It's a business habit."
During the trip, Helton began to suspect The Rev was right; Christiana didn't
likely know much more about the oldest profession than one might learn in a
steamy romance novel. But there was a big boom happening on Zarathustra, with
fortunes to be made by all sorts of means; if Christiana said she was going
there to clean up on the influx of population generated by the Pendarvis
Decisions, Helton was willing to go along with it.
It made little difference to him, anyway. He was just as glad to be by himself
as around others. He was used to operating alone. There were very few Master
Gunnery Sergeants of Fleet Marines, so it was not the usual thing for him to
settle in with his peer group at cocktail hour and talk shop. Maybe once every
year or two he would run into another Master Gunnie. Mostly he just did his
job, auditing weapons systems, gunnery performance, and readiness levels. Most
often he traveled by civilian transportation to avoid excessively widespread
knowledge of his destination and wasn't much obliged to answer to anyone below
the rank of Fleet Admiral or Force-General.
"Is our fellow passenger about, this morning?" Christiana asked.
"I didn't see him at breakfast," Helton replied, "but then I never see him at
breakfast." He looked at the readout on the wall. "Nearly ten hundred,
galactic standard, though. The bar will open in a few minutes and that should
fetch him out."
I rarely see you at breakfast, either, he thought, but I suppose you're in the
habit of sleeping late in the morning.
Chapter 3
At the first rattle of ice into the bin as the barman began to open up, the
third passenger appeared in the companionway as though answering a mysterious
call to nature. He was sporting a Zarathustran sunstone in the neckcloth below
his clerical collar. At the start of the trip he had introduced himself-rather
grandiloquently-as "The Right Reverend Father Thomas Aquinas Gordon," but
allowed as how he would answer just as readily to "Rev," "Tom," "Father G,"or
"Thursday."
"Thursday?" Christiana had said, falling for it.
"I certainly am!" The Rev boomed. "Let's have a drink!"
"Good morning, children," The Rev said, without breaking stride as he headed
for his favorite barstool. He clapped his hands together and rubbed the palms
against each other vigorously. "Sustenance, Harry," he said to the barman,
"sustenance."
Phil Helton was a bit youngish-early forties-to be a Master Gunnery Sergeant,
but he didn't think of himself as "children" in any sense of the word. To The
Rev, though, maybe I am, he thought. But, then, when he talks about "gathering
his flock" on Zarathustra, I don't reckon he means herding sheep, either.
The Rev himself was some indeterminate age which could fall anywhere between
thirty and sixty, even allowing for a good deal of hyperspace travel. His hair
was gray at the temples, but thick and healthy. He was a little on the fat
side, but had the fast, light-footed movements of a young man. There were
wrinkles around his eyes but the eyes themselves were an alert and piercing
dark blue.
He took a respectful swig of his first drink and shuddered violently for
several seconds. "Ahhhhhhhh," he said. "Like blood to a vampire."
While The Rev swapped pleasantries with the barman- and gambled him out of the
next two drinks playing Double-O-Helton and Christiana drifted around the rim
of the lounge toward the bar, drinking in the different views in the
observation screens.
Helton had been on Zarathustra before, but not recently, so his replies to
Christiana's barrage of questions about the planet were less than informative.
Everything would be changed by the current land rush, in any case.
The two of them had drifted over to The Rev's roost at the bar.
"Only a couple more hours," Helton said, nodding toward the image of the
Zarathustran moon. "Then the last leg down to Mallorysport for you and the
shuttle to Xerxes for me. What's the name of the place where you'll be setting
up your mission, Rev? I may get down and see you."
The Rev shrugged. "I don't know what it's called or where it is. But I know
Mallorysport is the largest city on the planet-seventy-five thousand or so.
Might be double or triple that by now, with all this immigration. So there's
bound to be a slum section for me to work in-some place that's crying for a
soup kitchen and medical mission."
"A slum?" Christiana said. "Already? Zarathustra's only been settled for a
little more than twenty-five years."
"Oh, it's there, all right," The Rev said, tapping his index finger alongside
his nose as though he could smell the place already. "Wherever Terrans go,
vice and squalor are in hot pursuit and soon pitch camp with the rest of the
pilgrims."
Chapter 4
He was right, of course. The slum of Mallorysport had the name Junktown and in
it teemed the throngs of the unwashed and the unfortunate-losers, thieves,
gamblers, cut-throats, prostitutes, dope-runners, racketeers, hoodlums, the
impoverished, and the eternally down-on-their-luck.
Though there were only the three in the first-class lounge, the economy-class
decks of the City of Asgard were crammed with a fresh crop of immigrants to be
deposited in Mallorysport. As soon as the word of the Pendarvis Decisions
reached Terra, colonists had stampeded toward Zarathustra. A Class-IV,
inhabited, planet. No more Company monopoly. Free land. A chance to make your
fortune. A chance to get away from Terra-where no one ever had enough room.
When they discovered that it might take longer than a couple of standard
galactic days to become deliriously rich, their grubstakes would start running
out.
The people who scraped together every sol they could lay hands on to migrate
to a colony world weren't just worthless bums, though; they all had skills,
knowledge, and abilities that were needed. The Chartered Zarathustra Company
had carved out the modern city of Mallorysport with such people and with the
intelligent management of their talents.
Sixteen years earlier, Mallorysport had been a cluster of log and prefab huts
beside an improvised landing field. The town had not grown up out of the
ground like a tree. People had built it. And, it was built, for the most part,
by people like those who were now crowded into the lower decks of the City of
Asgard-people who were betting every last centisol they had that they could
make a go of it on a new world.
Some, though, would wind up in Junktown when they found the streets of
Mallorysport were not actually paved with sunstones.
The Rev ran his finger around his throat, between the cleric's collar and his
neck. The warmth of his hand, brushing across the sunstone in his neckcloth,
caused the gem to flare brighter, which cast a glossy light against the ring
on his right little finger.
"You figure there are a lot of souls to save in Mallorysport, then?" Helton
said conversationally.
The Rev pulled his finger out from under his collar with a disdainful gesture.
"I told you I don't save souls," he said. "Leave that for the
Orthodox-Monophysites. I just help God look out for people who can't look out
for themselves- temporarily or permanently. Theology has to pay its own
freight; I don't preach."
"What about the souls of the Furries?" Christiana put in. "Don't-"
"Fuzzies," Helton interrupted irritably. "You mean Fuzzies."
"Sure," she said. "Fuzzies. What about the souls of the Fuzzies. Don't they
need saving?"
"Don't know," The Rev said. "Their souls may be in better shape than ours are.
On the other hand they might not be what people think they are, these Fuzzies.
I make up my mind about such things when I've seen for myself."
"Sounds odd coming from a priest," Christiana said.
"So it might," The Rev agreed, "so it might. I don't worry too much about this
intellectual stuff. We have priests in my order who sit around with computers
and try to mathematically calculate the ages of the prophets and the angels.
That's swell for them; I just go to where there are people who are hurting and
try to put something in their bellies and keep them from catching the
polka-dot plague."
She smiled. "Is that why they sent you to such a helluva-such a Nifflheim of a
place? According to my packet, there isn't a religious congregation on
Zarathustra."
The Rev took a long, noisy suck at his drink, then smacked his lips. "Don't be
particular about cussing around me, daughter," he said. "I don't give a damn
one way or the other."
He paused, staring at the observation screen. "If my superior had his way-or
wanted to spend that much more money-I suppose he would have sent me even
further into the celestial boondocks. Someplace like the Gartner Trisys-tem. I
hear that's real rough-and-ready country since crazy old Genji Gartner died at
Storisende. Everyone's been wearing out holsters to see who's going to control
Poictesme."
"But don't they have a chartered company there?" Christiana asked, "With a
Resident General and Federation troops?"
The Rev laughed mirthlessly. "Of course, sweetheart," he said, "and all the
settled planets in the trisystem are Federation members. So what?"
She wasn't so sure of what she meant, now. "Well, if they have a colonial
government, how can law and order break down that way-just over the death of
one man?-even if he did establish the first settlement on the planet."
"Systematically," The Rev said-genuinely amused, now. "Systematically. You
know how long it takes just to get some heavy Federation troops out here?"
Helton frowned for a moment, being logical. "Out there-not less than a year's
turnaround time."
"Right," The Rev said. "Six months going and six more coming back. If you
squawk for troops out here, it takes at least a year to get any-if you get
any. The Federation may decide the request is unwarranted and just send back a
message that says 'Sorry.' "
"Even at that," Helton said, "it's usually all over by the time they get
there. Most often, the only thing left for troops to do is put some muscle
behind the reorganized government and make sure it's going to honor the old
trade agreements that made the place worth commercial traffic to begin with."
Christiana looked shocked, and just a little bit frightened by what they had
said. "Th-that couldn't happen on Zarathustra, could it?"
The Rev shrugged. "The Federation depends on every planet to do its own
policing. A charter company or colony world is only as tough as the fist on
the end of its own arm. I don't suppose things could really fall apart on
Zarathustra." He gestured toward the moon in the observation screen. "The
Navy's right close at hand, there, on Xerxes-or Darius-whatever-but things
could get pretty wild and woolly under the right set of circumstances. You
know- push come to shove and all that. . .
"Which, I suspect, is why our friend here is arriving- after just enough time
has passed for word to get to Terra and for someone to be assigned to the
job-to audit weapons systems and readiness levels. Am I right, Gunnie?"
Helton smiled.
Chapter 5
While the passengers of the City of Asgard prepared for the last leg to
Zarathustra-or Xerxes-it was early morning on Beta Continent and coffee-break
time in Mallorysport.
Up Cold Creek Canyon from the Snake River, the K0 sun of Zarathustra slanted
orangish light across the growing settlement which the latest maps called
Holloway Station. A year ago the place had been a quiet one-man camp from
which Jack Holloway prospected for sunstones and lived a peaceably solitary
life.
There wasn't much stirring at this hour of the morning, but later on the place
would be bustling with activity. Jack Holloway still lived here, but not in
the privacy and seclusion he would have preferred. The place was now the
administrative center for the Native Affairs Commission.
For the first several weeks, the Commission had been operated out of
Holloway's own bungalow from a jumble of
cardboard-boxes-turned-filing-cabinets, extra tables, and steno equipment
scattered around the living room-and confusion. Now it took up a half-dozen
big prefab huts and was straining at the seams of those.
The headquarters and barracks for the Zarathustran Native Protection Force was
across the creek. It was home base for the police force which protected the
Fuzzies and maintained surveillance of their territory against Terran
intrusion. That alone accounted for over two hundred men, if you counted the
Marines loaned to the ZNPF by Commodore Napier.
Besides that cluster of buildings there was the bungalow where Gerd and Ruth
van Riebeek lived and the big laboratory and infirmary where they conducted
studies of Fuzzy biology and psychology, a Reception Center, a Fuzzy School
for learning Lingua Terra, and other such structures as might be of use or
interest to a Fuzzy.
This conglomeration, the scientific corner of Holloway Station, was referred
to informally as Fuzzy Institute.
Add to all this the constant comings and goings by officials of the new
Colonial Government, people from the Company headquarters in Mallorysport,
Constabulary officers, the Adoptions Bureau that had been set up for Fuzzies
who wanted to live with human people and love them, and everyone else who had
business involving Fuzzies-to say nothing of a couple hundred curious and
playful Fuzzies- and Holloway Station was the kind of place that might need
traffic cops before long.
Major George Lunt was puzzled.
That's why he was in his office so early this particular morning. When George
Lunt was puzzled about something, he had to turn his detective's mind loose on
it one bite at a time, and he couldn't do that with a dozen people pestering
him about two dozen things at once.
He hoped he would have a handle on it by the time the day watch started coming
in to go on duty at 0800. After that mere would be the whole tedious business
of inspecting the watch in ranks and sitting in on the watch briefing; not
that he needed to-the watch commander was perfectly competent-but as
Commandant of me ZNPF he was sort of expected to do it on occasion. It was
good for morale.
George reached out with his left hand and blanked the shade on his window,
then pulled out a section of printout from the stack of survey logs in front
of him and bent down his head to study the rash of squiggly lines which the
computer had superimposed on the strip map of a section of northern Beta
Continent, the Fuzzy Reservation.
There it is, again, he thought . . . plain as can be.
He slewed the stacks of paper around and matched up the registry marks on two
parallel strips of geography. That's nuts, he said to himself. If all the
various kinds of titanium compounds on Zarathustra were put together in one
spot, it still wouldn't cause these readings-! think.
George leaned back in his chair and rubbed his eyes. Two possibilities seemed
to him equally likely to account for the odd data recorded in the survey
printout of north Beta: malfunction of the scanner or recorder, or sloppy
procedure on the part of Paine's Marines. George thought it would be better
all around if he could kiss off Paine's Marines. George Lunt was uneasy about
commanding men over whom he did not have direct control. He hadn't been a
major long enough to have a clear handle on delegating duty and staff work to
others.
The third alternative was too preposterous-that there really was a big
concentration of titanium compounds on north Beta. Why, you could practically
take all the titanium in the entire crust of Zarathustra and put it in your
hip pocket. And here this damned readout was telling him there was a big slug
of it up there, in several different forms.
Well, he'd ask Jack Holloway about it. Jack knew a good deal about geology-had
to to be a successful sunstone prospector. Gerd van Riebeek could tell him
more, too. Gerd was a zoologist-used to work for the Chartered Zarathustra
Company-so he knew a lot about paleontology from working with fossils and rock
layers.
George Lunt yawned and stretched. While his arms were extended, he snapped
open the shade on his office window once more, then pushed back the chair and
got to his feet.
Chapter 6
Major Lunt wasn't the only person, at that hour, to be slaving over puzzling
entries on hard-copy printouts and trying to interpret their meaning and
importance.
Three time-zones to the east, in Mallorysport, it was mid-morning. Hugo
Ingermann-attorney-at-law-sat alone in his office, absently massaging his
smooth, round, pink cheeks, and studied the printout pages before him on the
large desk. The commercial manifests-cargo and passenger-of the City of Asgard
had been broadcast to the port on Darius and the capital at Mallorysport as
soon as the ship dropped into normal space. Cargo and passengers were known to
those who planned to receive them-persons who expected goods or passengers,
the customs inspectors, brokers for commercial shipments, lading and freight
contractors, and other interested parties. Preparations could then be speedily
made to receive that which occupied the decks and holds of the vessel before
it actually docked.
Very efficient.
Hugo Ingermann was in the category of "other interested parties." As the
moving and guiding force behind all activities illegal or even slightly shady
in Mallorysport, Ingermann was interested in everything and everybody that
might be on an incoming hypership from Terra.
This was not to say that Hugo Ingermann would turn honest business from his
door. During the seven years or so that he had maintained his busy law
practice in Mallorysport he had represented at least eight clients who were
completely honest and respectable persons. He owned some land north of the
capital city. And he was a partner in several perfectly legal businesses-to
say nothing of being a major shareholder in a dozen more.
Ever alert to the opportunities which abound on a colony planet, Ingermann was
also the architect and principal advisor of several loosely and informally
organized conglomerates in Mallorysport.
Ivan Bowlby's entertainment enterprises-telecast productions, prize-fights,
nightclubs formed the visible surface of his activities. Out of
sight-prostitution, murder for hire, the black-market, and a little dope
business here and there.
Spike Heenan's specialty was gambling: crap games, numbers, bookmaking, and
fixing sports events. His respectable front-in which Hugo Ingermann was a
partner-was a company which leased vending machines and electronic games.
Raul Laporte's talents leaned toward racketeering, extortion, plain
old-fashioned country-style crime, and stolen goods. He had expertly developed
a system of fences for illegal sunstone buying when the Company had been the
only legal buyer for them. Rather than let that part of his operation lay
fallow since the Pendarvis Decisions, Laporte had sketched out a plan to
expand into straight robbery of sunstone prospectors right at the diggings-cut
out the middleman-just as soon as he could find time to organize the operation
personally.
The most respectably-fronted of Ingermann's proteges was Leo Thaxter, Loan
Broker and Financier-also shylock, smuggler, bag-man, and protection
racketeer. He used Laporte's strongarm employees for collections.
When Thaxter came to Zarathustra ten years earlier, he had fooled around with
some small-time rackets, set up some crooked labor unions and a couple of
marketing cooperatives to put the squeeze on planters. Nothing really big,
though, until he fell under the tutelage of Ingermann some four or five years
later-who had showed him how to make good money by laundering bad money and
investing the profits in six-for-five loans to people who couldn't borrow
anywhere else.
His sister, Rose Thaxter, had married Conrad Evins, who later became the chief
gem-buyer for the CZC. At the height of the Fuzzy craze, the three of them had
kidnapped some Fuzzies and trained them to get into the Company gem vault
through the ventilation system. Ambitious enterprise that; the vault contained
upwards of one hundred million sols worth of sunstones.
They almost got away with it. Two minor henchmen, Phil Novaes and Moses
Herckerd, had been caught inside Company House with the loot. Herckerd managed
to get well-ventilated by a Company policeman with a submachine gun. Novaes
lived to stand trial on charges of enslavement, with Mr. and Mrs. Evins, and
the three of them received the mandatory sentence for that crime-death
administered by a pistol shot in the back of the head; no discretion of the
court allowed.
Ingermann angrily jerked out a fresh printout. The fools, he thought. If only
the idiots had consulted me, I could have showed them the weak spots in their
plan.
As it was, he had just barely managed getting Thaxter off, and had actually
been arrested himself when the police started rounding up everyone connected
with Thaxter.
The whole matter had been a great source of aggravation for Attorney General
Gustavus Adolphus Brannhard, who "knew" they were all guilty, but didn't quite
have enough on them to take it to court.
The hincty bastard tried to put me under veridication for questioning to have
me disbarred. Ingermann became enraged every time he thought of the incident.
Patience will put the whole goody, goody lot of them in my hands, sooner or
later; then I'll squeeze the juice out of their pious guts.
What irritated Ingermann was not that the caper had gone wrong, not that four
people had been caught, not that he himself had come close to veridicated
questioning about his enterprises, a thing that would have meant ruin and
jail; but that the whole scheme had gone sour before he could get hold of the
sunstones. He would have considered it a profitable bargain to trade the lives
of four of his own people for- say-a double handful of sunstones.
Ingermann shook his head sadly and went back to perusing the printout sheets.
Now, here was an interesting item. Three first-class passengers from Terra.
The passage voucher number of one of them had an "R" suffix. Restricted entry;
data not available except to official inquirers, and then on a "need to know"
basis only. No way to match the number up to a name at this end of the trip.
Payment vouchers were like boarding passes or baggage tickets. Passengers
presented their vouchers to the chief steward upon entering the ship and he
recorded the number on his manifest. After that it was a matter of
head-counting and tally-keeping. Three boardings first-class for Zarathustra;
and if three got off at Zarathustra all was in order. Anything more detailed
was a violation of the Privacy Act.
An "R " suffix indicated the possible presence of a Federation official or
government employee of fairly high rank among those three first-class
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