The six barracks sit side by side, 6,000 square feet apiece, jutting into open plain at one end of the fort.
After meeting with the president, Gen. Robert Guei, a group of soldiers appeared on television with government officials to say they had agreed to return to the barracks, though neither side issued details of concessions to the soldiers.
Here in the stirring, ragged mountains of northern Montenegro, the Yugoslav Army patrols from the Breza barracks on one side of town, while the Montenegrin special police, dressed in army fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, roam from their barracks in a resort hotel, the Bjelasica, that once catered to skiers.
Like the forests that Israel planted there, the abandoned barracks hugged the Israeli side of the Green Line.
The following afternoon, after we'd eaten our lunch and ministered to the women who joined us each day at siesta time, Fruto and I were summoned to the military barracks on the far side of the village.
But by now, the Chicago radio station, which was undergoing budget and staff cuts and was planning a move from its comparatively luxurious Chicago Loop surroundings to an old army barracks on the South Side of the city, wasn't interested in the projects I was developing for Oakland.
Sergei came through the snow on the other side of the barracks.
And the side of the barracks wall, which from a distance had appeared to be stucco, was actually a daubed plastering over thin strips of lath that crossed each other diagonally, like basketwork.
Managing this delicate situation will require a high degree of political skill and subtlety on Aung San Suu Kyi's part if she is to keep the military on side and in barracks, while addressing Myanmar's many divisions and problems.
A great red banner hung along the side of the barracks facing east: DEATH TO YOU KREMLIN INVADERS.
