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"Good fences make good neighbors," says a figure in Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall. Frost's character would make an ideal resident of Leisure Village, a 600-acre Lakewood, N.J., retirement community of 5,000 residents. The homes are guarded by a 24-hour security force. The community is bordered by a 6-ft. chain-link fence, and four years ago residents reluctantly topped one section of the fence with barbed wire after a rash of invasions by pranksters. But a mugging early last summer and recent car break-ins and gasoline siphonings have frightened the village's board of trustees to finish what they started. Now they have decided to ring the entire village in the same fashion, an action that when completed may give Leisure Village the dubious distinction of being the first community in the U.S. entirely surrounded by barbed wire.

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