Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1949, when Democrat G. Mennen Williams became Governor, Michigan's Democrats have controlled the state's executive department while rural Republicans ruled the legislature. But last week, the long, often paralyzing standoff between the Republican legislature and Democratic administration showed signs of ending. In an election of delegates to a constitutional convention next month at Lansing, the G.O.P. engineered its best statewide showing in years...
...defense budget now before Congress. For Taylor is the leading advocate of the philosophy of "flexible response" to Soviet aggression-a varied U.S. capability for action that might range all the way from rifle fire to a hail of nuclear missiles on Moscow. Taylor argues that the nuclear standoff between Russia and the U.S. makes a "general war" less likely than a "limited war," which would be fought by conventional armies backed up, if need be, by tactical atomic weapons. Many U.S. military men claim that the U.S. is now prepared for limited warfare, but Taylor has argued time...
...Zanzibar's general election last January, the two parties battled to a standoff (one orator declaimed to an African crowd: "It is true I have a light skin. You ask why I ask to represent black Africans. Well, I assure you my heart is as black as any man's"). Neither side was able to form a government, and last week the British tried a second round of elections. But the months of campaigning had fanned the smoldering racial hostility into flame. On election day, Arab sword flashed against African panga, leaving a score killed and more than...
...doctrine implied no downgrading of nuclear strike power, no doubts that the defense of the continental U.S. against its principal enemy still rests on the ability to hit back massively. Rather, it acknowledged that the missile standoff makes it less and less realistic to threaten "massive retaliation at places of our choosing" in response to lesser Communist attacks that could be better met by conventional forces or even guerrilla warfare (see box). The U.S.'s ability to wage all-out nuclear war and yet do little against border incursions has come to hamper the diplomat as well...
...Delay. For their part, the officials of Ramapo township feel that their patience has been severely tried by a wily band which, if it has its way, will import droves of bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses...