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her hair.
Upon reaching the doorway, Jody stopped suddenly
and peered into the distance.
'Mr. Buba," she said, "I think I saw
someone moving around in the woods."
The guard rose on the balls of his feet and
looked over. "Where?"
"About a quarter of a mile away. They aren't in
the shot yet, but I'd hate to be them if they ruin
one of Lankford's takes."
"I agree," Buba said as he pulled the
walkie-talkie from its belt-strap. "I don't
know how they could have gotten through, but I'll have someone
check on it."
As he radioed in the report, Jody returned
to the trailer. She tried to forget about
Lankford and his snit as she re-entered a darker world,
a world where the tyrants carried weapons, not shooting
scripts, and attacked nations instead of interns.
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Thursday, 9:50 A.m., Hamburg, Germany
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Paul Hood awoke with a start as the big jet
thumped down on runway two at the Hamburg
International Airport.
No--to yelled
something deep inside of him.
His head resting against the sun-warmed shade, Hood
kept his eyes shut and tried to hold onto the
dream.
Just a moment longer.
But the engines screamed to slow the aircraft, and their
roar blew the remnants of dream away. A moment
later, Hood wasn't even sure what the dream
had been, except that it had been deeply
satisfying. With a silent oath, Hood opened his
eyes, stretched his arms and legs, and surrendered
to reality.
The lean, forty-three-year-old Director
of Op-Center was stiff and sore after eight hours in
the coach seat. At Op-Center, flights like these were
called "shorts" not because that was where they hurt, though
they did, and not because the flights were short. They'd
gotten the name because they fell short of the thirteen-hour
barrier, the minimum flight-time requirement for a
government official to buy a spacious
business-class seat. Bob Herbert believed that
Japan and the Middle East received so much attention from