Our auction went as follows:

1D-(1S)-3H*-P

4H- P – 6H – AP

3H was a fit showing jump. Not exactly textbook, but I figured I’d be no worse off by making it, and since we have a grand slam opposite xxx x KQxxxx Axx I thought I should leave diamonds in the picture.

Υπάρχει ένα ωραίο περιοδικό στην Αμερική με το όνομα Kivounim (Κατευθύνσεις) των ΧΧΧ, το οποίο είναι κάτι σαν το δικό μας “Άμυνα και Διπλωματία” και θέτει στρατηγικούς στόχους για το κράτος του ΧΧΧ. Σε αυτό το περιοδικό το 1982 παρουσιάστηκε το εξής άρθρο:”As a centralized body, Egypt is alaredy a corpse, especially if one takes account of the ever more violent confrontation between muslims and christians. Its division into distinct geographical provinces must be our political objective for the 90’s, on the western front.Once Egypt has been thus dislocated and deprived of central power, countries like Libya, Sudan and others farther away will experience the same dissolution. The formation of a Coptic state in Upper Egypt, and of small regional entities of little size is the key to a historic development which has been slowed down by the peace agreement, but is inescapable in the long term.In spite of appearances, the western front presents fewer problems than the one in the east. The partition of Lebanon into five provinces… Will prefigure what will happen all over the Arab world. The disintegration of Syria and Iraq into regions, based on ethnic or religious criteria, must be, in the long term, a primary goal for Israel, the first step being the destruction of the military power of these states.The ethnic structures of Syria expose it to a dismantling which could lead to the creation of a Shiite state along the coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo region and another one in Damascus, and a Druze entity which might hope to constitute its own state – perhaps on our Golan – in any case with Houran and the north of Jordan… Such a state would be, in the long term, a guarantee of peace and security in the region. It is an objective which is alaredy within our reach.Oil-rich, and victim of internal strife, Iraq is in the Israeli firing line. Its dissolution would be, for us, more important than Syria’s, because it is Iraq which, in the short term, represents the more serious threat for Israel.”Source: “Kivounim”, Jerusalem, No. 14, February 1982, pp. 49 – 59Μετά φταίνε τα …πλαστά Λαδόκολλα των Σοφών…Οι ΧΧΧ θα γνωρίσουν τέτοια καταδίωξη που ο κοντός με το μουστάκι θα φαίνεται Άι Βασίλης! Η απληστία τιμωρείται κάποια στιγμή.