“It’s not slopping over to the magazine yet, but the broadcast guys are running around squawking. ““What’s gotten to them?”“It’s the first show out of Kiev. The clip on the party with the Azerbaijani people? There’s a rumor going around that the U.S. State Department wants to talk to us.”“The STATE Department! Oh, lord, give me peace. What right do they have to tell us what we can and can’t cover.”“I don’t know exactly what they want to talk to us about, but I’ve given them the line. ‘I’ll tell Ms. Gwenoch to get in touch with you as soon as possible.’ I’m sure they’ve already gone over your head and talked to the Baron.”I sighed. “Yeah, they probably have. Luckily, he’s still asleep so I have some time to talk to Taras and a couple of other people before I talk to him. What else?”“Mira sent some absolutely sin-sexy pictures from the Rio beaches, warming up to summer. I’ve OK’d a lot of them, but I emailed you and Jean-Louis some that I think need photo-shopping. The girls are beautiful, but we’ve got quite a bit of nipple. Probably all right for the Portuguese edition, and some of the European editions, but I’m not sure they’ll go in the States. And those are the ones where they’re wearing bikinis!”
