标题: 《Retief Aide Memoire》作者： - Keith Laumer【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-3 19:55 标题: 《Retief Aide Memoire》作者： - Keith Laumer【EPUB】 AIDE MEMOIRE . . . Supplementing broad knowledge of affairs with such shrewd gambits as identification with significant local groups, and the consequent deft manipulating of inter-group rivalries, Corps officials on the scene played decisive roles in the preservation of domestic tranquility on many a far-flung world. At Fust, Ambassador Magnan forged to the van in the exercise of the technique . . . —Vol. VII, reel 43. 487 A. E. (AD 2948) Across the table from Retief, Ambassador Magnan, rustling a stiff sheet of parchment, looked grave. "This aide memoire," he said, "was just handed to me by the Cultural Attaché. It's the third on the subject this week. It refers to the matter of sponsorship of Youth groups." "Some youths," Retief said. "Average age: seventy-five." "The Fustians are a long-lived people," Magnan snapped. "These matters are relative. At seventy-five, a male Fustian is at a trying