He listened idly, because despite the momentousness of the news he had other matters on his mind. It was idiotic, in view of the fact that P.P. Layouts paid an enormous yearly tribute to the UN for immunity, but idiotic or not a UN Narcotics Control Bureau warship had seized an entire load of Can-D near the north polar cap of Mars, almost a million skins’ worth, on its way from the heavily guarded plantations on Venus. Obviously the squeeze money was not reaching the right people within the complicated UN hierarchy. But there was nothing he could do about it. The UN was a windowless monad over
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