 Why can't they transmit Umluana as planned?
Umluana turned back to Rashid a second too soon. In a few minutes Miaka Station will know we're coming. Rather than resign, he accepted punishment which assigned him to weeks of dull, filthy extra labor. Could the World Court try and imprison a politician who had conspired to attack another nation? Men planted bases on the moon and in four years, 1978-82, ringed the world with matter transmitters; but the black population of Africa still struggled toward political equality. Umluana took control of Belderkan in 1979. He began a propaganda war against neighboring South Africa, promising the liberation of that strife-torn land. The United States and Russia, trying not to get entangled, asked for more investigation by the UN. Umluana was defying world law.
 The controls at the Belderkan Preserve have been destroyed.
 The controls at the Geneva receiving station have been destroyed.  The controls at the Miaka station have been destroyed.  The controls at the UN receiving station have been destroyed.  The controls at the Belderkan Preserve have been destroyed.