You started the book in west berlin. Wasn't that corny? Oh, yes, it was very corny. But i couldn't avoid it. If i had been able to do it in some other year, i would have,. But i just happened to be in west prede berlin. And being canadian, i could go into places like east germany and chaklosevaki and poland easier than than german nationals could. So i did, you had had a prior trip to afghanistan. Did that influence the book at all? A bit. It's always been desired by china, by russia and by anybody else in

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