TWO years earlier, on the island of Hainan, south of the province of Kwang-Tung, the first soil had been turned for the construction of a big new Chorella plant now completed and ready for operation. It was a World Council project, naturally; no one else had either the money or the inclination to spend billions of dollars in order to provide a source of cheap, nutritious food for the Orient.
Senator Sucamari conducted the opening ceremony, his clipped Cantonese matching his yellow skin and slanted eyes, his face impassive as he pressed the button that started the primary pumps. Senator Rayburn represented the Occident, but where Rayburn concentrated on smiling into the newsfax cameras that transmitted the scene all over the world, the Japanese knew better. Instead, he terminated the cerem
