Word: standoff
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...following the departure midnight Friday of the pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud, with no elected successor. The two rival factions - the Western-backed March 14 block, which holds a thin parliamentary majority, and the pro-Syrian opposition, spearheaded by the militant Shi'ite Hizballah - are locked in a tense standoff, both waiting for the other to make the first move...
...Iran's biggest trading partner, accounting for 27.8% of the country's trade in 2006. Russia has a range of commercial contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic realities have "more or less defined our range of motion" in imposing sanctions, concedes one former U.S. diplomat...
...little more than a month ago, the College moved to abrogate Undergraduate Council (UC) funding of alcohol purchases for student-thrown parties. The UC cried foul, accusations flew, and a standoff ensued. Now we are told a compromise has been reached. The result? The UC will not fund alcohol purchases for student-thrown parties.The only difference seems to be that while the UC was busy passionately denouncing the College’s violation of “student citizenship” in early October, it now seems perversely satisfied. On the UC’s e-mail list, representative Brian...
...heated land debates. Last month, residents in Shady Hill Square filed a lawsuit to halt a development project that would place a 5,000 square-foot mansion in the middle of a 90-year-old green space. The city issued a stop work order after a tense standoff occurred between construction crews and Shady Hill residents. Council incumbent Brian P. Murphy ’86 -’87 said that development could be beneficial only if did not eliminate a substantial portion of the city’s open spaces. “We’re 6.2 miles...
Local residents have filed a lawsuit to stop the development and are attempting to have the space designated a historic landmark in order to give the land permanent protection. Yesterday morning, a tense standoff between construction crews and the Shady Hill residents prompted the city to issue an order that temporarily prevents any work on the site...