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...Better than Swapping. These practitioners believe very strongly in polygamy as God's law. They must: polygamy is no redoubt for the lickerish. "Prayer is 99% of our existence, if not 100%," the pressman explains. "If a person goes into this principle who is selfish, lustful or jealous, it will make a devil out of him." Whatever his spiritual resources, though, the man with three wives has serious worldly problems. Just the simple recreational act of going to a drive-in movie has potential for domestic havoc. "We fight over who will sit by him," says one wife...
Last Stronghold. There is also an older precedent, dating back to the 17th century civil war between the decadent Ming dynasty and the energetic Manchus. After Peking and Nanking fell to the Manchus, one loyal Ming general, known as Koxinga, took his army across the strait to the redoubt of Taiwan, where his troops dominated the indigenous islanders. Koxinga died in 1662, and though his regime lasted another 20 years, his people gradually lost interest in the Ming cause. Meanwhile, the Manchus gradually won acceptance on the mainland. Though they often met opposition with barbaric cruelty, they also punished incompetence...
Because of Castro's gangster connections, the middle-class democrats of Havana (lawyers, doctors and merchants) consistently underrated him, believing that nobody would flock to such a banner. When their own children did just that, they at least half believed Castro's protestations in his mountain redoubt that he was just another liberal like themselves. Castro cleverly avoided tests of arms with Batista, correctly perceiving, as Thomas puts it, that he was conducting not primarily guerrilla warfare but rather "a political campaign in a tyranny, with the campaigner being defended by armed...
...became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation of marine life; Floridians also remember him as a co-founder of the famed Marineland near St. Augustine...
...Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days of battle, between the Jordanian army and the guerrillas of the Palestine liberation movement, the army seized several fedayeen strongholds in and around Amman, practically destroyed a guerrilla redoubt not far from the capital at Zerká, mauled a larger force of Syrian tanks and troops, and laid siege in the north near Syria to guerrilla-held Irbid, Jordan's second-largest city after Amman. The royal army said it had captured an estimated 5,000 prisoners, including...