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...Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quang Tri, the provincial capital which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the east had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city...
...medieval towers of the Kremlin are topped by glowing red stars, which symbolize the deep underlying continuity of Russian power. This week, barring some wholly unexpected disaster, the Stars and Stripes will fly for the first time above the crenelated ramparts of the fortress complex. For six days, Richard and Pat Nixon will reside in the Kremlin's 17th century Terem Palace, surrounded by the shimmering splendor that once was Imperial Russia...
...mean anything like what those who grew up in the twenties and thirties so much fear. We are simply too globally involved, through communications, technology, trade, travel, economic investment, diplomacy, and our special status as a nuclear power, to return to anything resembling the dream of Fortress America...
...Edward Coke, the keenest legal mind of the 16th century, first laid down the principle that a man's home is "his castle and fortress, his defense against injury and violence." Sir Edward was speaking figuratively, of course, but now it appears that many Americans are taking him literally. The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, taking note of the rapid rise in urban crime, not long ago made a grim prediction: "highrise apartment buildings and residential compounds protected by private guards and security devices will be fortified cells for upper-middle and high-income populations...
...Colombo forces are said to have taken up battle stations in an apartment house on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue. They have contracts out on two Gallo commanders: Albert Gallo and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano, who is now in charge of provisions for the Gallo fortress...