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...attack in Riga came only seven days after army paratroops had seized Lithuania's television center in Vilnius, killing 15 unarmed demonstrators. There too the republican parliament has been turned into a fortress, with a 10-ft.-high concrete wall in front and a deep antitank ditch along one side. Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis has been holed up in the parliament building since the current crisis began in mid-January...
George, who is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder, is president of Lifers' Group Inc., headquartered behind four security doors in the gloomy Victorian fortress in Rahway, N.J. Its 54 members are serving sentences of at least 25 years for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. While fellow inmates pump iron, watch TV or gossip in their cells, these jailhouse Rockefellers volunteer their time to help the world outside. "I figured out early on that there were only two things I could work out here," says George, 45. "My health and my mind...
...caves and sifting dirt on an archaeological dig. "I found some pieces of flint and a reindeer milk tooth," she says proudly, as she huffs up a path to an Ice Age rock shelter. Far below, a narrow valley is bathed in mist. On a forested bluff, a medieval fortress glows in pale yellow light. "The vegetation was different then," she says. "But I need to know the lay of the land, where the ridges are, where the high points are, so I can move my characters through here...
...playground sports a wooden car, a still-to-be-completed play house and the sandbox. But the area is dominated by a wooden-planked, multi-tiered fortress, equipped with ladders, ropes, and green and black tubular slides...
Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...