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Today the fortress mentality within the valley is beginning to ease, but for reasons having little to do with racial broadmindedness. First, rather than have their children bused under court order to schools in west Los Angeles, up to 45 minutes away, some white residents would prefer to have more blacks within the valley. Says Mrs. Bobbi Fiedler, who won election to the school board last spring on an antibusing platform: "Most of the people I know are more concerned about losing control of where their kids attend school than about who moves...
...less politically feasible, a decade ago, when the unyielding stance of the National Party had a broader base of white popular support. To succeed now, the government will have to allay suspicion by coloreds that it is only trying to capture them in a subservient position within a white fortress and (far more difficult) overcome black hostility to any system that denies them representation...
...moment, Davis is secure within the medical institute fortress. In fact, he has a far more profitable part of the empire than Lummis. Still, the ultimate solution of the conflict depends on a Hughes will-if there is a valid one. George Francom, a personal aide, has testified that Hughes once mentioned he had drawn up a handwritten will. But when Francom asked about its whereabouts, Hughes, ever suspicious, snapped, "You don't think I'm going to tell you where...
Bonn looked like a city at war-as, in a way, it was. The fortress-like Cologne-Bonn airport north of the West German capital was filled with machine-gun-bearing border police, supplemented by plainclothes agents in unmarked cars. Barbed wire surrounded almost every government building, as well as the houses of all high-level officials. Makeshift machine-gun bunkers, constructed of stacked sandbags, appeared on the rooftops of buildings throughout the city's government section along the Rhine. Night and day, armed police stopped virtually every car in the city and suburbs...
...abroad on diplomatic missions with Henry, and now it is Grace Vance's turn to play tourist. While the Secretary of State conferred with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, his wife put on a blue and white cap reading SHALOM and took a helicopter trip to Masada, the hilltop fortress built by King Herod on the shores of the Dead Sea. Accompanied by Rachel Dayan and several other diplomats' wives, she looked with interest at the baths in the remains of Herod's 2,000-year-old palace. When the guide described how members of the court discussed...