Word: standoff
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...Reno had been under pressure from the Clinton administration and her own department to end the standoff, and she'll be hoping that her decisive action - which passed without casualties - will have redeemed her from charges in Washington that she'd mishandled the situation by failing to follow through on ultimatums. President Clinton comes out looking like the decisive leader who prodded his attorney general into action, even though his intervention came rather late in the game. And candidate Gore, well - he looks like the Vice President everyone loves to ignore...
...move when the adrenaline is pumping, and the demonstrators around Lazaro's house will be braced for confrontation Thursday," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "The feds are more likely to wait for fatigue to take its toll, and that's more likely to take this standoff into next week." Even then, it may take Juan Miguel Gonzalez going to court to get an order of his own to spur Reno into action...
...negotiators also know that you don't move when the adrenaline is pumping, and the demonstrators around Lazaro's house will be braced for confrontation Thursday," says Shannon. "The feds are more likely to wait for fatigue to take its toll, and that's more likely to take this standoff into next week...
Speaking in English, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe does a credible job of sounding conciliatory, but addressing his supporters in his native tongue he comes across a little like Slobodan Milosevic. As the standoff between the country's handful of white farmers and the pro-Mugabe squatters who've occupied their land becomes increasingly violent, the 74-year-old Mugabe on Wednesday chose Independence Day to address the problem with a forked tongue. First he spoke in English and struck a conciliatory tone, expressing understanding for both sides of the conflict and sympathy for two farmers shot dead...
...Lazaro Gonzalez had earlier defied a government order to hand the boy over at 2 p.m., declaring that "they will have to take this child from me by force." That marked an apparent shift from earlier in the week, when the standoff appeared set for an imminent end. The leading exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation, appeared Tuesday to have brokered a face-saving deal in which Elian would be reunited with his father at a meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez, but that deal was quickly abandoned later the same day. "Earlier this week it looked as though the foundation...