From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <10irhgk$aa9a$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Thomas Koenig   wrote:   
   >Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> As the scientist is showing them his new machine and apologizing for his   
   >> deception, a large nuclear weapon explodes in the skies above Vienna.   
   >   
   >They could have set that in the 1970s or 1980, when the Soviets   
   >were planning on nuking Vienna (capital of neutral Austria).   
   >   
      
   Stirling has the main protag make something like that point:   
      
   	"That was Viennaa -- a medium-sized city in a European   
   	neutral country of no particular strategic or military importance."   
      
   	Paula blinked wet eyes, but drawing out deductions was a ground-in   
   	habit for all of them.   
      
   	"So if they bombed Vienna...where wouldn't they bomb?" she said.   
   	"La Paz, Bolivia?  Maybe."   
      
      
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