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Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef (now grandly styled Sultan Mohammed V) was cruising in the Mediterranean last week when Addi learned that a new government appointed judge was on his way to Tafilalet. The judge arrived by air in Midelt, a mountain village built around an old red clay crenelated fortress in a cedar forest below the snow-capped Atlas peaks. Addi gave the signal, and some 3,000 Berber horsemen clad in white-and-brown burnooses swept down on Midelt. They quickly surrounded the fortress, captured the Rabat-appointed judge and 18 local policemen...
...alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence-makes isolation an impossibility; not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people seeking such shelter for themselves can now build only their prison...
...terrorists and diehard French imperialists, Mollet had little room for maneuver. Last week the news leaked out that the French government had arrested dashing Brigadier General Jacques Faure, assistant commander of the Algiers area, aboard a French train and sentenced him to 30 days' close confinement in the fortress of La Courneuve outside Paris because of his unconcealed conviction that "in moments of great national crisis [soldiers] must not hesitate to seize power...
Crossroads. A vast (100,000-square-mile) basin watered by two great rivers, the Danube and the Tisza, and completely ringed around by mountains, the Magyars' new home was a richly fertile and well protected fortress, but no sheltered hideaway for the shy or the meek. Located at the crossroads of the historical highways along which the crusaders of Christendom would press toward the East and raiding Asian conquerors would drive south and west in endlessly repeated waves, the Danube basin had already been overrun and evacuated by dozens of conquerors before Arpad arrived. To ensure their own survival...
...face of the Russian peace offensive and the United States' seeming intention to reduce its military manpower, Europe has shown a stedily decreasing desire to act as a buffer zone for a "Fortress America." European leaders are finding it difficult to convince their people and themselves that a great manpower build-up on their part will place them in an advantageous position to maintain national sovereignty...