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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 40 "Only from my limited perspective in financing--" he began to mumble, knowing he could only bore a Pooh-bah on the subject of bankrolling war. "This is why I'm more. . .tranquil out here on the islands," the visitor continued, "than in Miami." "Now, for the record--" "The Jewish state," the Pooh-bah said, with exasperation. "Miami Beach. Now from a real estate perspective, it's interesting what they've done out there to old Hog Island. Pumping up the sand, and such. Yet it is my nature to be affronted--" "By those old retired New Yorkers? By those harmless old Yids?" Then Dory saw the dervish with his fingers whitening on an axe, and decided not to interrupt again. "They put me in mind of the jihad. It's a question of political influence, fund-raising--on a quiet drive along Biscayne Boulevard I find myself straining to hear the rams' horns. From across Biscayne Bay. . .the faint shofars of war." "--And with this Effman watching me." You could get the man going on the current difficulties at the executive level of government. A real insider's view. Although he tended to see the crisis in an English historical perspective-parliamentary forces versus the king |