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Chapter 19: March - May 1967
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FIGHTING DIES DOWN IN FORMER SOUTH AFRICA
March 15, 1967
Bloemfontein, Boer Republic
Following the collapse of Hans Hüttig’s Reichsstaat, the so-called Boer Republic fell into a brief period of vicious upheaval in what some international experts are now calling the “Second South African Civil War.” It has now been confirmed by reporters on the ground in Bloemfontein that the regime has re-secured the territory of the former South Africa and has been officially recognized by the German Reich.
In exchange for said recognition, and facing mounting internal pressure for his collaboration with Hüttig, President Hertzog has agreed to resign, appointing Jaap Marais as the new president. A somewhat surprising choice according to interviews with citizens of the new state, the collapse of German influence on the continent has been cited as the main reason for Marais’s triumph over the HNP’s Germanophile faction.
The new administration is likely to face continued internal unrest as well as the potential escalation of the many conflicts arising from the collapse of the Reichsstaat, particularly the fighting in Angola between the German-backed UNITA and Japanese-backed PLUAA forces.
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World News
NEW GRANADAN VICTORY IN COLOMBIA
March 23, 1967
Bogotá, Colombia
With the surrender of the Bogotá government and the Colombian Revolutionary Union, the ultra-rightist coalition forces of New Granada has won in the Colombian Civil War.
Welcomed by joyous crowds in Bogotá, the self-declared Duce, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, held a ceremony officially naming the former Colombia “New Granada.” Envoys from Co-Prosperity Sphere countries which had provided military assistance to the group were prominently in attendance.
A brief statement from Washington was the OFN’s only comment on the matter, seen as a defeat for United States influence in South America, reading “The illegitimate regime of Colombia will meet with no recognition from the free world.”
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World News
ENGLISH MILITARY DISSOLVES WELSH STATE
April 28, 1967
London, England
Nationalist celebrations are breaking out in London tonight as the Welsh government has unconditionally surrendered to English forces. Despite brave Welsh resistance following the breakdown of reunification talks, a swift deployment of troops into the formerly independent state quickly pushed through Welsh lines and entered Cardiff.
The government of Prime Minister Jellicoe has stated it intends to reintegrate Wales with the “same arrangement we had pre-war.” However, reports say that a large amount of Welsh resistance remains, and it is heavily armed. Experts believe Wales is going to be difficult to occupy for England, especially in the immediate future.
International condemnation from Pakt nations was swift, but London clearly believes that its surprise acceptance into the Organization of Free Nations last year will deter any intervention from the Continent.
The news from around the world is bleak, but we can’t worry too much about that as we have plenty of problems at home.
Not only is corruption interfering with our agenda in the Legislative Council, it is dragging down the economy. The Chief Executive begins to take moves to combat it.
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The Struggling Founder
Yamauchi Hiroshi leaned on the metal railings of a perch atop the Nintendo factory, gazing upon the dozens of workers at their stations diligently crafting and assembling Nintendo's products. The sound of thick sheets of paper being methodically cut into card-sized pieces filled the room as industrious workers – men, women, Chinese and Japanese alike – operated the sleek machines that gave Nintendo's hanafuda cards their striking designs and flamboyant colors. Yamauchi stared in awe at the factory floor, admiring the streamlined processes of the machines and the studiousness of the workers. He had gotten so far from sifting through mounds of financial paperwork trying to salvage Nintendo and subsiding off meager, yet exorbitantly priced instant rice.
The numbers proved it too. Yamauchi stopped to examine the clipboard he held in his hands, and the increase in not only the profits but also the productivity of Nintendo that the financial report stated was glaringly obvious to him.
He put it down once more and went back to gazing at the factory, reminiscing of the time he had listened to Chief Executive Morita's inauguration speech in that old cramped office of his. He recalled having dismissed Morita's promises as naivety and contemplating the integrity of his character as the soft sunlight illuminated the factory floor, just as it did to his desk all those years ago. He remembered scoffing at the idea of having merits over race, and having Japanese and Chinese workers being treated equally as he glanced upon his employees in graceful harmony. He had doubted if Morita was sincere and wondered if his promises were just as fake as Sony's early radios, but Morita's message still resonated with him even in the face of his cynicism. As a bell rang out through the factory floor signaling a break for the workers, a single thought drowned out all the memories he had of listening to Morita's speech.
On those now distant days, he made a promise he could keep.
Ok, one more international story:
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World News
SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY TRIUMPHS IN CANADA
May 2, 1967
Ottawa, Canada
To the shock of electoral observers and media alike, the Social Credit Party of Canada has managed to win not only the most seats but a commanding majority in the recent Canadian election. Its leader, Réal Caouette, will be sworn in as Prime Minister in the coming days, a turn of events that no one even a few weeks ago when the election was called would have considered possible.
While the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, and even the CCF would have worked together to keep the “Socreds” out of power had they not gotten a majority, such a coalition will forever be speculative. With the vanquishing of the “vieux partis” and the socialist CCF, the Social Credit party has a clear mandate to do whatever the charismatic and ideologically driven Caouette choses to do next.
WIth Centennial celebrations planned for July, Canada has apparently decided that it wants a radical new path for the nation’s second century.
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"It seems contradictory, doesn't it? How does a civil service designed to service the people become such a stain burdened upon by those very same people?" The commissioner shrugged his shoulders. "If I knew, my job would be void, wouldn't it? If I can't understand the beginnings of our failings, well, I can at least try to understand how I can fix them." He paused for a moment, looking from left to right over his assembled team of police officers.
"We have become an organization that treats the bad like royalty and the good like criminals. I want you all to know that this is a mindset of the past. I want you all to know the competent, the brave and the daring among you that you will be rewarded." He paused for another moment, briefly making eye contact with Lam. "And I want the imposters among us to know; I am watching."
The newly appointed police Commissioner, Ōmori Kan, inspired utter silence from the officers. For Lam, it wasn't difficult to imagine that some of his colleagues feared the man, whether they were suspect or not. Chatter began to slowly pick up as Ōmori left the room, which seemed to be the commissioner's informal dismissal of his assembled subordinates.
Some of the officers left behind Ōmori, most likely to return to duty, but among the rest of the officers was an air of excitement. The younger officers seemed the most jubilant, and even some of the seniors that had served even before Lam's arrival appeared happy with the removal of the old commissioner. "Change is coming" was a phrase passed around more than a few times, especially by a certain Zhong Man, a face as fresh as Ōmori's.
Lam grabbed Zhong, pulling him to his side. The man reminded Lam of himself, and the attitude he possessed was refreshing. "I never asked, Zhong, why did you join the force?" The man smiled at Lam, answering with the most common phrase heard in the office: "To support myself and my family."
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The Good Cop
"They're even shuffling around division heads!? And look at all those captains besides ... surely these reshuffles don't happen all the time?"
Zhong Man, the newcomer officer Lam had befriended a few weeks ago, looked as wide-eyed as a deer in headlights. And he had every right to be. Lam couldn't remember the last commissioner ever ordering a reshuffle in the first place, and this reshuffle seemed to displace almost all of Lam's old colleagues. He could recognise maybe one in every thirty as an officer from Kōshu, but most seemed to come from cities outside of Kōshu entirely.
"It's lucky that we at least get to stick together, right Lam?"
"Yeah, Ōmori was dead serious in that speech he made. This reshuffle is meant to break apart those corruption rings we get so much flak for, keep the informants separated from the people they were informing. And if I had to guess, some of these newcomers are secret police, meant to infiltrate us and weed out anybody that might get reinvolved in bribery or such. I believe some bureaucracies are even getting the same treatment we are."
It was important that Lam encouraged Zhong; the man had only spent a couple weeks in the force and was easily impressionable. Seeing the station being turned on its head just after he had finally settled in would be shocking enough as is, let alone having to worry about some secret police force inside of it. Would anything even get done with such a patchwork police force?
"It's interesting. And it's probably the best move Ōmori could've made."
This will be a short update, partly because it’s a lot of words already and partly because it’s that time again. That’s right, the 1967 product launch is here!
And we once again need a target market. Once again, our options are:
    
We have already sold to the Chinese, Italian, Brazilian, and Japanese markets. We can do so again but the profit margins will be reduced.
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- paragon1
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Sell to Mexico, because I'm going to get that vote through some day drat it.
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- Guy Fawkes
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Sell to Mexico. Perfect way to hedge our bets and make inroads into US market.
This!
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Chapter 20: May - October 1967
Over the next several months, anti-corruption measures begin to kick off in earnest.
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The Good Cop
The Guangdong Police bulletin that went out one fine day in Kōshu seemed innocuous until one read the last few lines and realized just how important it was. "It is our intention to increase the budget for personnel and review pay standards and bonuses in light of the prevailing economic conditions and the living needs of the Guangdong Police."
That last clause confused everyone in the police force; so far as Lam Haau-cyun knew, it was the first time that that clause about “economic conditions and living needs” had been used to refer to a prospective pay increase. He had no idea what it meant, nor did any of his colleagues or superiors. Even the people he disliked the most were united with him in confusion.
In a fit of desperation, he took the bulletin to Yasukawa Yoshiko and asked her, "What on earth could this mean, Ms. Yasukawa? Everyone I know is stumped."
Yoshiko hid her glee at being the one informing Mr. Hayashi about something rather than the other way around and told him her hypothesis. "We-ell, it's not just a reward, I think, but a carrot too. The thinking I've heard is that corruption begins because the rank and file aren't paid enough and turn to crime to make up the difference."
Lam was still confused. "But where in Heaven's name are they going to find the money for all that? Don't they know how many of us there are?"
Yoshiko demurred. "I don't know either, Mr. Hayashi. But then again, if the government is looking to fire corrupt officers, maybe they could redirect some of that into your wallet."
Lam nodded, though he was still confused.
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POLITICAL CRISIS IN NEW GRANADA
June 22, 1967
Bogotá, New Granada
The end of “La Violencia” brought about a new sense of calm to the former Colombia, but it appears that calm was short-lived. After the succession of power from the War Council to the National Fascist Party, other members of New Granada’s political elite have rallied against that decision, sending the new regime into political chaos.
New Granada’s other political factions – the militant Catholics, the oligarchs, and the extremist militias – have all been jockeying for control and power and doing their best to replace the National Fascist Party. It is unknown which faction, if any, will emerge victorious, but whichever does, Colombia’s future will be changed permanently.
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Lam Haau-cyun eyed the desks of two of his colleagues with some suspicion. The two men - who had been notorious in his department for their corruption - had had themselves and their possessions cleared out of the building over the weekend with no notice whatsoever. No trace of their existence remained; even their nameplates had been ground to pieces and thrown in the garbage.
The Morita government's new corruption campaign seemed to be proceeding apace, and Lam worried about the amount of work he'd be forced to take on as the corrupt good-for-nothings who were supposed to do it got cleared out.
As he thought about how to cope with the possible new rush of work, his new subordinate, Chan Ka-kui, came back and saluted him. "Ah Cyun, our boss just said that I'm getting a raise! Apparently the higher-ups are impressed by the work I put in on that one Kowloon robbery case. He told me to come and get you too; it seems you'll be getting a raise too."
As Lam nodded and got up followed by Chan, he looked back at the empty desks next to him, and realized that Ms. Yasukawa was probably right. Those idiots' wages were probably being diverted to his wallet.
He smiled. Better with him than with them, he thought.
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CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE
August 20, 1967
Bordeaux, French State
Years of tension under the iron-fisted rule of President Pierre Sidos have finally boiled over as a total collapse of the government’s authority is apparently underway. Already reports are flooding into the capital of various dissident groups rising up: first the Résistance in La Rochelle, followed by a counter-uprising of various militias. Late reports also point to a potential communist revolt in Marseille. Several of these factions have proclaimed themselves to be the rightful government of France.
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SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL SIDELINES FASCISTS IN COLOMBIA
September 2, 1967
Bogotá, New Granada
An organization known as the Supreme Economic Council – known for being the main association of rural and industrial oligarchs in the country – has made a surprising putsch. This rapid coup d’etat has expelled the fascist party and Church from the top echelons of power, giving the SEC full control over the state.
At the head of the SEC is Lisandro Sierra Velasquez, former Antioquian business leader and credited as one of the few people in Colombia with a feasible plan to kickstart the nation’s industrialization. Sympathetic to the free market, privatizations are reported to be the order of the day.
Guangdong seems to be humming along nicely when world events once again interrupt: Emperor Puyi is dead. And just a few days later …
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SOMUCHO TAKEOVER IN MANCHURIA
October 18, 1967
Hsinking, Manchukuo
The dust has settled in the aftermath of the death of Emperor Puyi in Manchuria, and it is now clear that the General Affairs Council (Somucho) and the civilian bureaucracy have centralized power upon themselves.
While other cliques fought amongst themselves, the bureaucracy gradually froze the others out of key positions and now appear to have consolidated their grip on the country. Abolishing the pretense of a monarchy, Gu Ciheng has been declared President of the State of Manchukuo; however, most international observers agree that real power now lies in Sakomizu Hisatsune, Director of the Somucho.
The bureaucratic coalition in the new Manchuria is expected to be a fervent adherent of technocratic industrial methods seeking to reinvigorate Manchukuo’s ailing industry through massive state-led industrial plans.
Those “desperate measures” would jack up our corruption by ridiculous amounts – exactly what we’ve spent much of the last six months fighting against! And in the end it will probably not be necessary. When Morita Akio ascended to the position of Chief Executive in 1964 he boldly proclaimed that Guangdong would eclipse Manchuria economically by the time the decade was out.
Three years and several badly needed reforms later, we are very close to doing so. But if they play dirty, we have to be ready. And so, the capstone of the anti-corruption measures will be put into place.
There are three ways we can proceed:
BE ADVISED: Because of the importance of this measure, voting will commence in seven days instead of the usual 30. There might be time to make a deal for more votes by then, but there also might not. Choose carefully.
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Going for Form the ICAC
go for the jugular.
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ICAC time please.
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you should have left Let's Play open for public view, Lowtax
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Ibuka and Komai will just find ways to abuse anything other than ICAC.
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Sweeping dust under the carpet is not the solution: ICAC
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Chapter 21: October - December 1967
The bill establishing the ICAC is introduced to the LegCo. We’re short on votes but not by too much. We just need to lean on our own people a little bit …
… and get Matsushita (essentially our coalition partner at this point) to lean on his.
Even the Chief Executive has to acknowledge that bribing legislators to pass an anti-corruption ordinance is a very Guangdong thing to do.
Outreach to Fujitsu and Hitachi is not seriously entertained.
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Yasukawa Yoshiko and Hayashi Kōsen met up at a restaurant in a middle-class district of Kōshu. The matter being discussed was, of course, the recently passed ICAC bill, which had attracted the attention of everyone in Guangdong from the furthest reaches of Guangxi to the shores of Kowloon. After getting some lunch and two cups of tea to wash it down, they started talking.
"So what do you think about it, Officer Hayashi? The new ICAC ordinance or whatever they're calling it? I think it's cause for cautious optimism - it seems like the executives are actually putting their money where their mouths are on fighting corruption."
Hayashi's brow furrowed in concern, and his words dampened Yoshiko's enthusiasm. "I'm afraid I can't share your optimism, Ms. Yasukawa. I worry that this ICAC of theirs is an overcorrection - too strong, too aggressive. I actually fear it might cause more grief than it is worth."
Yoshiko was confused. "Why is that? Isn't fighting corruption in an unbiased manner a good thing?"
Hayashi nodded. "Yes, it is, you're 100% right on that. But the problem is that giving the power of enforcement to another organization with little to no oversight is going to cause internal strife. It already is over at the police - I have it on good authority that many of Commissioner Ōmori's lieutenants are complaining quite vigorously about the matter."
Yoshiko nodded. "Is that so?"
"Yes. And I worry it'll spread further."
Speaking of the police – we have put into place a system to temper the worst aspects of the force, now it’s time to boost the good.
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AUSTRALIA TESTS FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
December 2, 1967
Adelaide, Australia
Officials from the Sphere and OFN are closely watching the Maralinga test range in South Australia, where Australian Prime Minister Clyde Cameron’s nuclear weapons program has successfully tested its first atomic bomb. The Prime Minister had pledged to develop a nuclear arsenal shortly after his election, citing Japanese regional hegemony as an existential threat to the nation.
The detonation at Maralinga has cemented Australia as the world’s fifth nuclear-armed state – a source, according to polling, of security among Australians and of great anxiety abroad. It is currently unknown if Australia received any outside help in developing the weapon.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry has released a statement condemning the test, calling it “the penultimate step on a staircase to oblivion.”
The Untouchable Crusader: Kamino Satoshi has been added to the Dramatis Personae page.
It’s been less than two months, and the ICAC is already shaking things up.
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The Good Cop
Lam Haau-cyun looked with some worry at his colleague, one Chan Ka-kui by name, who was visibly shaken after having just left the office that the ICAC had set up in their precinct.
"What did they do to you, Ah Kui?"
Chan sighed and shook his head. "Ah, dammit, they pulled me aside for questioning for the last time today."
Lam nodded slightly in understanding. "I see. What was that like?"
Chan sighed again. "They kept bringing up random old case files and pointing things in them out to me. They wanted me to talk about my other colleagues, and they kept on badgering me. It was annoying at best and exhausting at worst. Almost torture at times."
Lam was curious now: "So then did you talk?" At that, his friend threw up his hands in defeat.
"Talk? Of course I talked! I'd rather not get arrested by Kamino and his lot." Lam nodded in understanding until he realized he had another question.
"Wait a moment, Ah Kui - if they badgered you into talking about your colleagues, why are you telling me about all this?"
Chan sighed, shook his head, spread his hands and made a sad little smile. "You're the only one I'm fairly sure is clean out of our whole lot." Now understanding the situation a bit more, Lam nodded.
"As it turns out, Ah Kui, you're right. They haven’t bothered me at all."
But you don’t make major changes like this seamlessly.
Meeting with the new ICAC commissioner can’t hurt, so Morita asks him to come in.
No vote here, as the thread has made its “go big or go home” stance on the ICAC clear. Just a short update today to get through 1967 as it’s been a busy week for me. I’m sure 1968 will be a peaceful and prosperous year!
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Fun fact, a bunch of ostensible US allies in OTL flirted with nuclear programs, including Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, and South Korea. According to Wikipedia even Switzerland had a long-running program, and Mexico could assemble a bomb pretty quickly today if they wanted to.
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Well, Australia has nukes. Now, their emu overlords shall reign.
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History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.
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Fun fact, a bunch of ostensible US allies in OTL flirted with nuclear programs, including Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, and South Korea. According to Wikipedia even Switzerland had a long-running program, and Mexico could assemble a bomb pretty quickly today if they wanted to.
South Africa had a few (probably) working nuclear weapons, but the US and USSR both scared them off from performing an actual test (maybe, depending on who you believe regarding the Vela incident). Unsurprisingly, the nukes were dismantled during the winding down of Apartheid.
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FULL COMMUNISM NOW
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Lets hope ICAC is ripping off a bandaid, and not ripping out fresh surgical sutures.
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Chapter 22: January - April 1968
The year 1968 kicks off with extremely surprising, but not unpleasant, news.
That’s right, folks. We did it.
And the people of Guangdong know who to thank for their ever-increasing prosperity.
The excision of the worst of the corruption dragging Guangdong’s economy down gave us the final shot in the arm that put us over the top.
And a professional police force that worked for the people instead of against them would ensure that the corruption never came back.
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The Good Cop
It was a pleasant day in Guangdong, but Lam Haau-cyun wasn't out enjoying it on the streets. Today he had a different job - helping out with Cantonese training for Japanese beat cops and street officers on the force.
Due to the Chief Executive's recent orders as implemented by Commissioner Ōmori, Japanese expatriate officers were now ordered to learn basic Cantonese to do their jobs. The man at the top of the Police, it was rumored, had not shirked that duty himself. In fact he had gone above and beyond, now apparently being fluent enough in Cantonese to hold technical conversations in the language, write documents in a manner indistinguishable from local Chinese, and read and understand books without recourse to a dictionary.
More than a few of Lam's new students were visibly displeased at having to rely upon Cantonese people to learn a so-called “lesser language,” but they complied with Lam and the other officers' instructions. None of them had a choice, after all; it was either learn Cantonese or get kicked off of the Force, no matter one's rank. It reminded Lam of his first few days on the job, how bitter he and the others had been about being forced to learn the language of the foreign invaders.
Lam resisted the urge to let his schadenfreude at the Japanese officers' plight overwhelm him. It was unprofessional; besides, being a “civilized person” about it might gain him something for little to no cost.
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The Displaced Family
Lee Chun was seeing the police far more often these days, and, to his pleasant surprise, they weren't conducting as many arrests or taking as many bribes as they used to. In fact, it was a lot more community-oriented than it had been back in the day.
More and more Zhujin and Chinese-speaking policemen were being deployed to the neighborhoods, and as a result police-civilian interactions were far more pedestrian:
"Can you find my lost purse?"
"Which way's the department store?"
"That little urchin stuck his tongue out at me!"
Chun watched as an officer directed a worker, who was doing the potty dance in his desperation, to the nearest washroom. It reminded him of the kind officer who had shown them their way when they arrived in Guangdong leaving the ruins of their old village behind; without him, Chun was sure they'd be trapped in a dormitory now. Chun resolved to find that man and thank him if he could.
Now it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. The police still had a lot to answer for, Chun thought, as he watched a man being bundled into a police wagon. But they weren't as callous as they once had been.
Years ago, if it was a choice between the police and the Kempeitai, Chun would have flipped a coin and picked whichever evil came up. Now, with the police disciplining themselves and becoming more and more a part of the community with each passing day, the choice was obvious to him—or was it? He would need to watch and see more closely, hear what others had to say and so on.
And when he did that, he concluded that others shared his initial, halting approval.
Dang, I just realized it’s been a while since we checked in with the Lee family.
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US-GERMAN SUMMIT CONCLUDES
April 7, 1968
Stockholm, Sweden
The process of drawing up the balance sheet on the Stockholm summit is now under way, and while it is certainly not possible to call it an unmitigated success, there is little evidence so far of disappointment within the Kennedy administration.
Führer Bormann’s unbending public statements were not unexpected, it is being said now, and the important thing is that the meeting took place in an atmosphere of businesslike cordiality. They confirmed the two great powers’ common interest in avoiding nuclear war and situations that might lead to it, they gave both sides opportunity to hear the other’s views at first hand, and they established what could prove to be an extremely important personal acquaintance between Bormann and President Kennedy.
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CAUDILLO SALAZAR DIES
April 10, 1968
Lisbon, Iberian Union
At 4:02 this morning, Jose António Oliveira Salazar, one of the two caudillos of the Iberian Union and leader of the Portuguese territories within that union, was pronounced dead. WIth his death passes over three decades of Portuguese history.
Reportedly the caudillo died due to complications arising from cerebral hemorrhaging, of which he was undergoing surgery to correct. The country of Portugal is already mourning their leader, as is his former colleague and co-ruler Francisco Franco.
Until a new successor is chosen for the position, Franco is the sole leader of the Iberian Union, and experts believe that he may move to make that a permanent state of affairs.
It’s time to beard the lion in his den.
And just like that, the Kempeitai’s Warden is reminded of his place.
Corruption: Expunged
Police: Professionalized
Manchuria: Surpassed
The Future: Bright
What do we focus on next?
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NOTE: D and E are mutually exclusive, as are F and G.
And also, it’s time for the 1968 product launch …
… and we need a target market!
We have already sold to the Chinese, Italian, Brazilian, Japanese, and Mexican markets. We can do so again but the profit margins will be reduced.
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B and Turkey
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- Guy Fawkes
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D and Argentine
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Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
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Electricity
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Electricity.
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