All Judgment Fled

By: James White

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Synopsis: Sixty million miles from Earth, embroiled in all the perils of First Contact with alien life forms, astronauts haven't much time for politicians and public relations officers. Back on Earth, though, First Contact is being relayed to a breathlessly waiting public, and much of what the astronauts must do and say is coming through live-- to the total dismay of military brass and political bigwigs, whose passion for secrecy about absolutely anything that looks like a crisis is matched only by skilled ability to disseminate that "information" which paints their role in a rosy hue. Definitely they do not want their heroic astronauts to react to a hostile environment and hostile aliens in a hostile fashion. Or at least not publicly. The trouble is, the aliens don't know about this...