Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concessions. But Perón got back his grip only at the cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches...
President Eisenhower is convinced that "there is no longer any alternative to peace." The British believe that the world is entering a period of pax atomica, based on a recognition by both sides of a nuclear standoff. The new phrase spreading in both London and Washington is "competitive coexistence...
...bougainvillaea-spangled Petropolis, Brazil's traditional summer capital (see above), Latin American delegates to the inter-American economic conference last week opened their campaign for a massive new program of help from the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 22). The response was a blend of sweet reasonableness and polite standoff from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Latinos wanted price floors for the raw materials they supply the U.S.; Humphrey countered that "We as governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested...
...seven years the fighting was a standoff: the French held the cities, but could not sweep the jungles; the Viet Minh presided over the jungles, but could not storm the towns. The political war was also a standoff: the French brought back Bao Dai, an ex-puppet of the Japanese, to reinspire Vietnamese nationalism on their behalf-but they got nowhere; the Viet Minh lost friends by their brutal emphasis upon forced labor, and by further purges of their nationalist element. But for the Indo-Chinese people, the war was an unrelenting horror: at war's end a staggering...
...produced some possibly troublesome opposition for the future-not from the well-beaten Communists, but from ambitious politicos of the extreme right wing. ¶ Honduras went anxiously to the polls, fearing armed revolution as the likely upshot of a three-way presidential race that looked like a three-way standoff. But Ramon Villeda Morales, a socially prominent pediatrician and a pro-U.S. liberal, got 48% of the vote. Because he missed an absolute majority, a newly elected Congress must choose the next President, but the talk of revolt dwindled rapidly in the face of such a clear verdict. Hondurans...