Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
...long term, however, any major beefing-up of NATO rests not with the U.S. but with the West Europeans themselves. One of the familiar ironies of the nuclear standoff between the superpowers is that it has restored the importance of conventional warfare. While the West Europeans rightfully look to the U.S. for protection from nuclear attack, they can and should look to their own resources for the new manpower necessary to bring NATO's conventional forces back in balance with its potential Communist antagonists...
...Biafrans starve rather than make concessions. (Some of the federal officers frankly prefer starvation to fighting as an offensive weapon anyway.) At the same time, Ojukwu is equally willing to let his fellow Biafrans starve, unless he can get food on his own terms. It is a chilling standoff, and one in which it is both dangerous and difficult for outsiders to assess blame...
...Rockefeller. Against Nixon, reported the poll, Humphrey would also win, but he would merely tie with Rocky. Since last month, all of the candidates have been holding comparatively steady in the polls, except for Alabama's George Wallace, who has now inched as high as 21% in the standoff between Rockefeller and Humphrey...
...middle is the confederation of centrist parties that is led by Jacques Duhamel, 43. Since there is a feeling among many French politicians that the right and left may fight to a standoff, the importance of the centrists has been greatly enhanced. They hope to add at least 20 new seats to the 40 that they held in the old Assembly, thus holding the effective balance of power between the two groups...