Word: roadblocking
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...Dilemma. The U.S. must face up to the question of whether the Thieu government is becoming a roadblock to peace. The first part of the problem concerns the Communists: Will they deal with Thieu? They vow that there will never be peace so long as Thieu sits in the presidential palace. This position might change in the course of negotiations, but at present it does not seem likely. When the Communists talk of a coalition, they are not thinking of a coalition with Thieu, because to join one would be to recognize his legitimacy. The second part of the problem...
What to do? We didn't know. So we just kept walking toward those Germans and soon found ourselves "fraternizing with the enemy." They appeared to be ordinary guys like us. We reached across the barbed-wire roadblock and shook hands with them. That was bout the only sensible thing I did during World...
Feinberg was unable to get around this mathematical roadblock until he was struck by an ingenious idea. If mass becomes imaginary at high velocities, why not see what happens when an imaginary number is substituted for mass at rest? When he made the substitution, he was able to derive a real number for the energy of a particle traveling above the speed of light. Translating this concept into physical terms, Feinberg conjured up a strange particle that seemed to exist only on the other side of the speed-of-light barrier; it could move at velocities greater than...
...Jewish Sabbath, a team of Israeli commandos, their faces blackened, descended on Beirut international airport, located only five miles from downtown and on the edge of the city's suburbs. As an Israeli spokesman told it later, one group, equipped with smoke bombs, coolly set up a roadblock to keep Lebanese troops away. The others, ignoring parked foreign-flag aircraft, headed straight for the planes of the country's lines: Lebanese International Airways, Middle East Airlines and Trans-Mediterranean, a cargo carrier...
Despite the explosions and the flames in the night sky, Lebanon's armed forces were curiously slow to react. Lebanese air-force jets were based only 40 miles away, but none scrambled to challenge the Israeli choppers. Some Lebanese soldiers did advance toward the Israeli roadblock, but retreated when the commandos fired warning shots. A mobile Lebanese antiaircraft battery finally trundled up an hour after the attack began-and 15 minutes after the Israelis departed...