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CALLED TO JERUSALEM: SENT TO THE WORLD
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I. An Unexpected Wilderness
With surprising gentleness the huge jetliner settled upon the runway and began its ambulatory procession to a gate. The flight crew offered its usual greeting: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Moscow." At three o'clock in the afternoon on the first day of February, 1991, a cloudy overcast made the hour seem even later. It was just six months before the short-lived coup d'etat by the military and the KGB and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union as we had known it.1
With surprising gentleness the huge jetliner settled upon the runway and began its ambulatory procession to a gate. The flight crew offered its usual greeting: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Moscow." At three o'clock in the afternoon on the first day of February, 1991, a cloudy overcast made the hour seem even later. It was just six months before the short-lived coup d'etat by the military and the KGB and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union as we had known it.1
