She flipped pages. "Let’s get to the major stuff. The Committee election. We’ve got twelve candidates, which is a joke, but three front-runners. Pereira’s an honest guy, you could play poker with him by telex, but he can’t live down that Brasilia debacle. Tanaka pulled a real coup with that Osaka lumber deal. He’s pretty flexible for an old-line salary man, but I met him in Osaka last year. He drank a lot and wanted to pinch me. Besides, he’s into countertrade, and that’s my turf.