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Tim said, "I don't see Verran as the
type to make a deal, do you? They haven't caught that Elliot guy
yet, and Alston and Emerson removed themselves. We don't know who
else was in on it here and who wasn't. And without written records,
where does that leave us?"

"Probably with a lot of lower-echelon
indictments, according to my father," Matt said. "But once they
start asking questions around the KMI medical centers, someone's
bound to crack, and then the truth anout the experimentation will
come out and the whole network will collapse."

"And maybe the investigations will
work their way back to Kleederman himself," Tim said, setting his
jaw. "Criminal charges, civil suits, whatever they can do to hound
that son of a bitch into the ground."

Quinn squeezed his hand. "Easy now."
And then a thought struck her. "What about the
graduates?"

"Right," Tim said softly. "What about
them? All the 'Where Are They Now' docs. Those poor
bastards."

"Why do you say that?" Quinn
said.

"They're the real victims. None of
it's their fault, but their reputations will be ruined or, at the
very least, highly suspect."

"Don't count on it," Matt
said. "They won't believe they've been brainwashed, and frankly, I
doubt there's any way to
prove
that someone's been brainwashed. They'll say they
were never affected by any silly science-fiction machine, or
they'll say none of those contraptions were in
their
headboards when
they
were students at
The Ingraham. And unless somebody turns up some written records,
who's to say those SLI units or whatever they're called weren't
installed last summer?"

"So they'll go on as they are?" Quinn
said.

"They're still well-trained
physicians. They'll go on giving the inner-city populations
excellent medical care—even better care now that the patients
they're subconsciously compelled to refer to the medical centers
will no longer be pharmaceutical guinea pigs."

"So it's over?" Quinn said, finally
letting the relief seep through her. "Really over?"

"For all intents and purposes, yes,"
Matt said. "You two pushed over the first domino. Just a matter of
time now before they all go down. It's over."

New Medical School
Opens

(Budapest) A new international
charitable organization, The Eastern Europe Medical Care
Foundation, has announced the opening of a tuition-free medical
school in Budapest and a string of medical centers located in
Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to bring the benefits
of modern medical care to the poor, the disadvantaged, and the
disconnected of Eastern Europe.

Frankfurt Allgemeine
Zeitung

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