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...another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close to the Argentine border, and turned it into an armed fortress, complete with antiaircraft gun. From this stronghold, wrote Farago, Bormann regained control of his funds in Argentina and began to build a business empire with Mafia-type takeovers of legitimate businesses. Among other things, Farago added, Bormann gained a monopoly on the timber market in Northern Argentina and Southern Paraguay...
Moakley's campaign then became a step-by-step program to break down Hicks' seemingly impenetrable fortress and to build on his own base of support. As the highest vote-getter in the 1971 City Council election and with a 14-year record in the Massachusetts legislature, Moakley began the campaign with a sizeable constituency. And Senator Bob Cawley's redistricting scheme added Moakley supporters to the voter rolls...
Stacks of loudspeakers framed the stage like the barricades of a medieval fortress. On the floor lay a magnificent tangle of wires and cables. On the stage apron, like Buddha contemplating his navel, sat a giant electronic console glorying in its own inputs, modules and mixers. Visitors to the 2,006-seat Zellerbach Auditorium at the Berkeley campus of the University of California last week could be forgiven for thinking that they were about to hear the rock concert to end all rock concerts...
...vantage point, one's attention was centered on the football stadium tiered studio roof--a feature than cannot be seen from any ground view. Rather, when coming out of the year and looking past Mem Hall the image is not of a football stadium but of a "medieval-modern" fortress with its fiberglass parapets, icy black reflective glass and sinister black air-conditioning machinery squatting on the roof...
...smugglers. The agents also noticed that though the 60-ton boat had made two trips to Miami, it never ventured near the shrimp-fishing grounds. After customs agents forced the Caprice back to port, Boucan dived overboard. He was picked up the next morning, exhausted, near Marseille's harbor fortress. Finding nothing illegal, police were about to release Boucan when they noticed that the concrete ballast was slightly awry...