“They send a child to speak to me!” She sneered.“We have advanced since we last encountered each other. We took your fleet and reserves with eas...e. We captured all of your troops and equipment,” I replied.“Impossible!” She retorted.“Very well I will show you,” I said and created a hologram in front of us and played through the battle as seen on the holograms on our ship.“You expect me to believe you have such abilities. I am not so easily fooled. What do you want from me girlie?” she asked.“I. "All this is so exciting, I'm so happy to be here Professor," she beamed as she swung her arms to encompass the whole room.It only took me a morning to realize my luck, to understand Sam would be the perfect assistant for me, that my fear that she'd somehow hinder my work had been completely groundless. I slowly took her through what I expected of her and of how I worked. "I'm always working on various projects at one time Sam, I explained. "I try to write four-five hours every day, eight til. , Tuesday, June 23, 1998, Kathleen Lehrer received the call she had been hoping against hope she would never receive. The hotline from N.O.R.A.D., the North American Air Defense Command, rang with the news that one of their spy satellites stationed over Kazakhstan had picked up the flashes of four missiles being launched. It appeared that Makhtol's technicians had broken the codes for at least several of the nuclear weapons.President Lehrer had been having her top advisers staying at the White. A few minutes later, Lisa and I got out of the pool, dried off and headed back to the room. We both showered, got dressed and went out to dinner. We made a few other stops while we were out and returned to the motel a couple hours later. We got back to our room and began to settle in for the night. Lisa grabs the ice bucket and goes to get ice from the ice machine just down the hall. A short time later, I heard voices in the hallway just outside the door. I looked through the peephole in the.