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least five hundred miles square, the test can be made in perfect safety. If not, I cannot answer the results;
that will be in the hands of Allah, Who has ordained all things. No doubt Allah has ordained the
destruction of either Moscow or Nanking; whichever city Allah has elected to erase, I will make it my
personal responsibility to see to it that the other isn't slighted, either.
However, if your Excellencies decide to accede to my modest and reasonable demands, not later than
one week from today, this test-launching will be cancelled as unnecessary. Of course, that would leave
unsettled a bet I have made with Dr. Hong FooтАФa star sapphire against his favorite Persian
concubineтАФthat the explosion of a lithium bomb will not initiate a chain reaction in the Earth's crust and
so disintegrate this planet. This, of course, is a minor consideration, unworthy of Your notice.

Of course, I am aware that both your Excellencies have, in the past, fomented mutual jealousies and
suspicions among the several "autonomous" republics under your respective jurisdictions, as an instrument
of policy. If these peoples were, at this time, to receive full independence, the present inevitability of a
pan-Asiatic war on a grand scale would be replaced only by the inevitability of a pan-Asiatic war by
detail. Obviously, some single supra-national sovereignty is needed to maintain peace, and such a
sovereignty should be established under some leadership not hitherto associated with either the former
UEESR or the former UPREA. I humbly offer myself as President of such a supra-national organization,
counting as a matter of course upon the whole-hearted support and co-operation of both your
Excellencies. It might be well if both your Excellencies were to come here to Kabul to confer with me on
this subject at your very earliest convenience.

The Peace of Allah be upon both your Excellencies!

Shere Ali Abdallah,

Ph.D., Sc.B., M.A.




From N. Y. Times, Oct. 30, 1984:

MOUZORGIN, SUN LI-YIN,

FETED AT KABUL

Confer With Ameer;

Discuss Peace Plans

Surprise Developments Seen....
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