Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, the sweet fantasy of the dream house, the little fortress of home, My Blue Heaven, has jolted up against hard economics...
...mountains and mystery that no white man found it until 1911. Patallacta was between the two on a stone-paved Inca highway, part of the Royal Road that climbed and twisted more than 5,000 miles through the Andes. The town, with its 115 dwellings guarded by a hilltop fortress, probably served as "a pit stop for Incas traveling between Cuzco and Machu Picchu," says Ann Kendall, a British archaeologist who has spent 13 years studying the site. One thing is certain. Agriculture sufficient to support perhaps 5,000 people flourished at 8,000 ft. above sea level...
...modern mansion in central Tehran that houses Iran's Prime Minister looked like a fortress under siege. Heavily armed Revolutionary Guards and machine gun-equipped Jeeps ringed the building; sharpshooters carrying G-3 automatic rifles were poised behind sandbags on the roof. Inside the compound, on the second story of a modern administrative annex, President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were attending a meeting so secret that its time and place had not been made public. The agenda: how to improve security against urban guerrillas, notably the Mujahedine Khalq (People's Crusaders...
Nonetheless, the riots in Michigan seemed to emphasize the urgency of Burger's plea. They began in the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson, a dreary, 57-acre fortress built in 1926 to hold 4,000 inmates, but currently filled with 5,600 convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives...
...Chappaquiddick, in 1969, Edward Kennedy practiced what might be called the pre-emptive deflective confession. The idea was to assume the guilt in one large abstract gulp in order to silence any further specific inquiries. It did not work well for Kennedy. He spent a full week in a fortress of silence while the reassembled talents of Camelot labored over a text for him. Then he went on national television to take the responsibility of a young woman's death unto himself but also, simultaneously, to leave himself in a state of dazed blamelessness. His biggest mistake-all penitents...