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Communism
indeed
!
He
had
a
good
mind
to
get
up
and
tell
these
mindless
robots
that
the
Soviet
Union
was
nothing
more
than
a
monolithic
dictatorship
that
had
never
turned
power
over
to
the
people
.
Capitalism
was
the
system
that
had
brought
freedom
of
conscience
and
opportunity
to
people
all
over
the
world
in
a
way
that
communism
could
never
hope
to
.
So
inconsistent
was
the
Yugoslavian
that
he
would
rob
banks
,
live
off
the
fruits
of
narcotics
traffic
and
yet
convince
himself
that
he
was
involved
in
the
liberation
of
the
people
.
Arthur
stood
up
,
gave
the
entire
assembly
a
withering
glance
and
,
in
an
even
,
unemotional
tone
,
said
,
"
Balderdash
.
"
The
others
turned
and
stared
in
astonishment
as
he
left
.
He
found
the
car
and
sat
there
for
a
few
moments
.
He
hated
to
drive
on
the
right
-
hand
side
of
the
road
.
But
try
as
he
might
,
he
couldn
’
t
reach
anyone
to
come
and
take
the
car
.
"
Damn
these
damnable
mix
-
up
times
!
"
he
said
.
Slowly
he
eased
himself
behind
the
wheel
,
and
craning
his
neck
to
see
the
center
line
,
he
pulled
away
from
the
curb
.
He
drove
tensely
at
twenty
miles
an
hour
.
Arthur
checked
the
street
signs
,
and
it
occurred
to
him
that
Sunbury
Road
might
be
in
the
neighborhood
of
the
Hoover
Reservoir
.
He
pulled
over
to
the
curb
,
took
out
the
highway
map
and
plotted
the
coordinates
.
He
was
indeed
near
the
dam
he
had
been
intending
to
visit
for
a
long
time
.
He
had
heard
that
ever
since
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
had
built
the
dam
,
the
sludge
had
accumulated
against
the
structure
.
He
had
been
wrestling
with
the
question
of
whether
this
sludge
area
,
with
its
varied
forms
of
microscopic
life
,
might
turn
out
to
be
an
ideal
breeding
ground
for
mosquitoes
.
If
he
discovered
this
was
indeed
an
infested
area
,
he
would
inform
the
authorities
that
action
must
be
taken
.
The
important
thing
was
for
him
to
take
some
scrapings
of
the
sludge
and
examine
them
under
the
microscope
at
home
.
It
was
not
a
major
project
,
he
realized
,
but
someone
had
to
do
it
.
He
was
deep
in
thought
,
driving
slowly
and
carefully
,
when
a
truck
passing
him
swerved
back
into
the
lane
,
drove
a
car
ahead
of
him
off
the
road
,
and
kept
going
.
The
car
hit
the
guardrail
and
went
into
the
ditch
end
over
end
.
Arthur
pulled
quickly
off
onto
the
berm
.
He
got
out
calmly
and
climbed
down
.
A
woman
was
moving
,
crawling
out
of
the
car
.
"
I
say
,
don
’
t
move
any
more
,
"
he
said
.
"
Let
me
help
you
.
"
She
was
bleeding
,
and
he
used
direct
pressure
to
stop
it
.
She
began
to
gag
—
he
could
see
her
teeth
had
been
knocked
out
and
she
was
choking
.
Discarding
the
idea
of
performing
a
tracheotomy
,
he
decided
to
create
an
airway
instead
.
Searching
through
his
pockets
,
he
found
a
plastic
ball
-
point
pen
.
He
pulled
out
the
ink
sheath
and
,
using
his
pipe
lighter
,
softened
the
plastic
shell
and
bent
it
.
Then
he
slipped
it
into
her
throat
to
help
her
breathe
,
turning
her
head
to
the
side
to
allow
the
blood
to
run
out
of
her
mouth
.
A
brief
examination
tpld
him
that
her
jaw
was
broken
,
as
was
her
wrist
Her
side
was
lacerated
and
he
suspected
her
ribs
were
crushed
.
She
must
have
hit
the
steering
wheel
when
she
went
forward
.
