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...powerful enough to maintain our prosperity and democracy in a world dominated by antagonistic forces and philosophies. To find the balance between more or less saintly isolation and crusading global zeal, between the danger of exhausting ourselves through untenable foreign commitments and imprisoning ourselves in an untenable American fortress-that is the difficult current task of American foreign policy...
...Just Community is its size (only 30 inmates). Experts are uniformly convinced that large "fortress" prisons are an unmitigated contamination of criminal justice. The only solution for San Quentin, reported one corrections official who had been sent to investigate the prison's violence and living conditions, is "200 Ibs. of TNT." He got no argument from superiors. Already, the populations of such oldtime "big houses" are being cut down. In Minnesota there are tentative plans to close the 775-man state prison at Stillwater. One problem, however, is to get communities to accept the new, smaller institutions...
...secure pensioners in the Mafia, but the retired Chicago don Sam Giancana, 66, was probably as much at ease one night last week as a man with his past could be. Just back from Houston and a gall-bladder operation, he had enjoyed a festive homecoming dinner in his fortress-like brick house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. His guests were the handful of people he could trust: one of his daughters and her husband; Charles ("Chuckie") English, his partner in myriad syndicate enterprises over the years; and his loyal courier-chauffeur, Dominick ("Butch") Blazi. No matter that...
History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
...existing subway system. Once at Lafayette Place, shoppers will be able to move from store to store at three levels: in a subterranean concourse, on ground level and, by way of flying bridges, on the second floor. Instead of simply recreating the usual suburban shopping center-a fortress for retailing with all attention focused inward-there will be continuity with the surrounding area. Some of the new stores will front on established city streets, others on Lafayette Place's own maze of pedestrian malls and glassed-in galerias, which were designed by the architects (I.M. Pei & Partners with Cossutta...