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...defense of the Chicago Seven, arrived at Wounded Knee to represent the leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Carrying fresh proposals in a brown briefcase, two Indian lawyers dashed back and forth in a Cadillac between the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Pine Ridge and the AIM fortress. A major sticking point was the Justice Department's threat to arrest any Indian militants leaving the trading post and confiscate their weapons as evidence. It was largely to carry out that threat that the Justice Department had kept its cordon around the area. At week...
...awful smell of burned powder and oil and tank drivers' bodies. At first cautiously, then freely, the rebels began to stand up; a chorus of cheers welled up from the thousands in nearby streets. Western-style, they fired their guns into the air and rushed toward the battered fortress. In the next hour or two, the mob of soldiers, joined by thousands of citizens, sacked that palace with a thoroughness rarely seen...
...other side trip-to Cap Haitien on the northern coast-is almost worth traversing the particularly bad roads or risking the frequently canceled air trip. Once there, tourists can take a two-hour horseback ride up La Ferriere mountain to visit the ruins of the Citadelle, a huge stone fortress built by one of Haiti's liberators, Henri Christophe, to ward off an invasion that never came...
Today Brando's silk-walled, Japanese-style house atop a hill on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills is again a prime tourist attraction, and sightseeing buses nose past it daily. The house remains, however, as much a fortress as it was when Brando took it over in 1961 from the previous occupant, Howard Hughes. Despite, or perhaps because of his renewed flush of popularity, Brando still insists that "privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although...
...Dispensationalists, who have as their doctrinal fortress the Dallas Theological Seminary, are at the core of the Second Coming brouhaha these days. They take their name from a belief that God acts differently in different periods, or "dispensations" of history. Planet Earth Author Lindsey is a Dallas graduate, and his book predicts that the end will likely come within the "generation" (40 years) of those who were alive for the 1948 founding of Israel...