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"Per President, the Tilapian offered help and monetary assistance (20 million Ducats). I accpeted the relief help on the basis of your instructions, but told them you would decide regarding the financial contribution, while informing them of the victims' fund. Tilapian rescue workers have arrived.

I have begun discussions about setting up a 'ring of steel' in New Lancaster City, NeuWestaden, and Eutopia City. This will require coodination with the cities and provinces, and perhaps some other ministries."
 

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Josephus I said:
OK. Levarge made a good point. We should, especially Loic and myself, remain separated.

"Very good, Mr. President. With your permission, I will stand up the secure off-site location. Will you or the Vice President be heading out?"

- Voskhod as Levarge
 

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"Per President, I know you wonder how my wife puts up with me if I would nag her as often as I remind you about things, but when word gets out of likely Cuban backing for the bombing, we will have anti-Cuban demonstrations in the streets, and they will be asking why we haven't gone to war with them yet, and the GA may even propose voting us into one. When the Cubans see this progressing, they will not be frightened, but they will have lost all their reasons to squelch this foray. So, if you have not already done so, please contact their government, and see what can be done. That way, at least we will be able to truthfully say that we have been pursuing diplomatic channels first."
 

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Levarge's voice came back over the secure line. "Mr. President, Facility Seven is prepared for your arrival. Have your pilot contact the facility's approach control on 121.5 and give the code-word 'Elba.' I'll be there to meet you."

- Voshkod as Levarge
 

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A sign of life

Alexis Keller sends her regards from Singapore by a postcard. The card is signed with 'Alexis'. There is no return adress...

singapore_city1.jpg
 

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In MESA there's a few things I'd like to work on I'm not sure about. I'd like to build a memorial for the victims of the attack, build a number of urban housing projects, and found a Center for the Arts. None of these seem to have a place under the MESA budget, so what should be my next move?
 

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Glad to see you're up and running MESA.

The National Memorial is a great idea...money for that can be taken from all departments...it's a national thing. You have the go ahead to organize something.

The Arts Centre...technically culture is a provincial jurisdiction. If you decide what province to have it in, maybe we can negotiate with the province to go 50-50 with the Feds on this?

Housing. Doesn't fit anywhere does it? A noble idea. Once I get the budget approved, that could probably be taken out of the extra funding I plan on giving to MESA.

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We can probably get the Eutopian Central Bank to fund a big chunk of the memorial, and we will get some private donations as well. Perhaps it shouldn't really be a government project at all? Although if they want to put it on Federal land we could donate that.

The main incremental source of funding for MESA is the half of the VAT that isn't going to the military. Josephus earmarked much of that for healthcare and extended maternity leave in his campaign. So I would assume more than half of the half would go to that, if he wants to honor that promise. That would leave about 3 billion for other projects.

Per Rashaad, I read your letter protesting the 'rings of steel'. The name is designed to convey impenentrability, but I have driven through them in other countries. Done properly, they are relatively unobtrusive, and crimes like armed robbery and muggings drop dramatically within the zone, as does traffic congestion, which helps lessen pollution, which is a problem in the capital. Absolute freedom of travel includes going the wrong way on a highway, which leads to injuries, deaths, congestion, and pollution. Everyone can travel more freely if certain conventions are followed. Besides, we have to do something, so even if you could singlehandedly arrest the ringleaders behind the ECB blast, the voters would not be satisfied that it couldn't happen again.
 

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Cabinet members.

Per Truman, newly installed deputy MDIS, has suggested to me that we send operatives to Cuba to see what they can dig up regarding the ECB bombing. I don't want to authorize this without consulting all of you. This will be a dangerous mission. It could also, if it fails, be a diplomatic disaster.

Personally, I have developed a rift between myself and Castor. Our intel seems to indicate a Cuban connection, and nothing happens there without Castor's knowledge. Castor tells me Cuba is not involved, but he can be lying.

My thoughts are what would our infiltration into Cuba accomplish? Even if we find Cuban complicity, what do we do? We need to know not who shipped the bombs, so much, as who,on our end, bought them. Thus our intelligence should focus on infiltration of Dubruti...that's my opinion.

Second, I have been advised that an un accounted for Chinese vessel has entered our waters. I've given Levarge permission to board if it doesn't respond to our calls. If Dubruti ends up having a Chinese, not a Cuban, connection--then I've really emabarrased myself.

Thing is, as far as I know, China doesn't do "revolutionary" work so much. I'm more inclined to think if it's not the Cubans, it could be the Koreans.

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There have been instances of Chinese ships, acting not under national control, but instead under the direction of a local military leader who has set himself up as a sort of warlord, and uses those under him without normal regard for the law. There was an incident of such a ship acting like a pirate, boarding another ship carrying a cargo of cigarettes in international waters, imprisioning the crew and sailing the boat into a friendly port, conficating the cargo on trumped up smuggling charges, then selling the boat back to its owners and demanding ransom for the crew (it was called 'fines'). If it is our territorial waters, then fire a shot across their bows to get them to stop so we can board them, and if they don't then we have to fire at them to make them know we mean them to stop, then to disable the ship if necessary. When we check out the ship, we will be able to learn more, so I will refrain from speculating further at this time.

As to the Cuban visit, I would have thought we already had our man in Havana. Given that we don't know whether the Cuban involvement reported from two sources is rogue or official, then we should try to find out from people already there or from governments with intelligence agents in place. If we don't get any help that way, we don't need to sneak anyone in, we can have someone fly there on a commercial flight from Mexico or Venezuela or wherever. It would be better if they weren't a citizen of the UPE.

As for tracking down the local connections, I have been discussing with FLEA whether it makes sense to offer a large reward. I would appreciate the cabinets thoughts on that idea. It wouldn't turn a dedicated revolutionary, but it might tempt someone who knew of it peripherally. We would probably have to offer some immunity as well, as knowing about it and letting it go ahead makes them some sort of accessory to the crime.
 

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I agree that we need to work on national affairs first before we can act in foreign affairs. But if the attackers we only a few days in our country, and at the same time murdered the man in the park, we can't realy stick on internal investigation.

If we do not have any idea what hapens in our country, what I mean, what those Durruti-activists are doing, then we realy can't act in foreign business. You'll agree that we will have to find out that first, before we act in external business? If you agree I cancel all the work I just made on the Cuban operation and I'm asking to set up an infiltration operation.

(OOC: I get alot of the time the message that the server is to busy.)
 

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Truman. I think we have nothing to lose by sending someone into Havana, undercover, if we don't have anybody there. I suggest flying him into Havana as a tourist from Spain. Discuss with FLEA our best way of doing this. What we need is intelligence on the ground....specifically whom did they communicate with in eutopia.

Loic, as you know there is a suspect ship heading to Eutopia. I recommend we should send ground forces, police and other ops, to the area where it appears it is communicating with via signal.

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I'd like to create two new national holidays: May Day, and a Topan day. Do I need GA approval or should I go ahead with it in MESA?

Also... I know this isn't my field of expertise, but I'd just like to know what we plan on doing if there is a connection between the Friends and Cuba? War? Isn't our army in a serious funk since VATA didn't pass. Just a thought.
 

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If Cuba, as a government, supplied the people who particpated in the bombing or funded them, I might suggest we pursue it through the International Court of Justice, to try to get some billions of dollars from Cuba, like some oil country with a dictator paid for having their agents plant a bomb on a plane, killing over a hundred people. The only problem is that Cuba doesn't have the billions from oil revenues, so we would just be another unpaid debtor. If the link is proven, it will give ammo to those pushing for regime change in Cuba, but I don't think the US is ready to invade that country, so it will just serve to limit the Cuban President's state visits.
 

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Rashaad...I like both those holidays...you'd probably need GA approval.

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Per President, the military has let us know about a ship, the Hainan Star, possibly trying to land refugees or maybe terrorists, or both. The Navy has requested help from FLEA, which is scarce in that region, but what we have has been dispatched, along with a request to local police for assistance.

Refugees are under the authority of the Immigration portfolio which is under MTIA, which is my missing former colleague Per Austri. You personnally might appeal for UN assistance, but that will be to little and to late.