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...assigned to the headquarters in Legnica are cut off from the town. The officers live in a sprawling, fortress-like compound covering some six square blocks. Sequestered behind high walls lie clusters of small houses, blocks of apartments, a library, a commissary, a club and other facilities needed to support several thousand officers and dependents. An adjoining complex of bar racks for the enlisted men is similarly self-contained...
...York three days before the killing, checked into a Y.M.C.A. nine blocks from Lennon's apartment, and started hanging out in front of the building, waiting for Lennon like any other fan. There were usually fans at the gates of the Dakota, a grand, gloomy, high-maintenance Gothic fortress overlooking the west side of Central Park, because the building houses several celebrities: Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein. Fans of the Beatles and Lennon lovers accounted for conversation with
DIED. Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 82, who as Defense Minister of South Africa helped turn the country into a virtual fortress of white apartheid rule and later served as President from 1968 to 1975; in Cape Town. In 1962, fearing an attack by a black "army of liberation" based in other African nations, Fouché initiated South Africa's largest-ever peacetime military buildup and warned its neighbors: "Stay where you are or there will be trouble...
...what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter. In my town, for instance, there is a meadow in which stand, drying...
Most of the Rebels easily evade the Imperial invasion, but Han, Leia, Chewbaca and C-3PO stay behind until Darth Vader's black robes nearly envelop them. They then take to the dilapidated and constantly malfunctioning Millenium Falcon, in which they escape from their crumbling arctic fortress only to be pursued relentlessly by a fleet of Imperial star cruisers...