Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Sandbagged emplacements lined the highway and airport rooftops, and the sodium-vapor lamps yellowly illuminated the helmets and rifles of soldiers on guard duty while throwing their faces into deep shadow. Soviet-style tanks sat along the main thoroughfare where cabs normally would be waiting, their long muzzles pointed toward the entrance to the airport drive. ![]() ![]() Aimslea topped that by simply pointing out the window as we drove around the lighted circular drive connecting the terminal to the highway. Embassy liaison, pointed at two bullet holes in the wall near where the van was parked, but Dr. They had brought a wheelchair to the bottom of the aircraft ramp for me, but I waved it away and made the walk to the van myself. As the semiofficial “International Assessment Contingent,” the six of us were met at my Lear jet, escorted through the confused milling that passed for Customs since Romania’s revolution, and then herded aboard an Office of National Tourism VIP van for the nine-mile drive into town. WE flew to Bucharest almost as soon as the shooting had stopped, landing at Otopeni Airport just after midnight on December 29, 1989. May not be reproduced in any form without permission.Įndpaper map illustration by Kathleen McNeil Sherman. ![]()
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