Word: standoff
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...ordinance is similar to one the county adopted in 1993 during the 51-day siege by federal law enforcement at the Branch Davidian complex east of Waco. When that incident ended tragically, the sheriff complained that he might have solved the standoff more peacefully over a cup of coffee. So far, the current sheriff and his deputies have opted for a laid back approach and there have been only a couple of confrontations, including the arrest of a man who mowed down symbolic crosses planted along the roadway by anti-war protestors. But controlling the crowds is taking its toll...
...Estrada; of renal failure; in Manila. After Marcos called for and won a snap election in 1986 that was widely suspected to be fraudulent, Sin took to the airwaves, rallying the country of devout Catholics to join a military faction that had mutinied against Marcos. After a three-day standoff, Marcos fled. Sin stepped in again to help oust the corrupt Estrada in 2001. Famous for his humor--"Welcome to the House of Sin" was his greeting to houseguests--he responded to criticisms of his secular activism by saying the church "cannot proclaim eternal salvation ... when we are blind...
...processions and no bicycles should be used." But there were no buses to take the mourners to the cemetery. Tutu pleaded with the colonel for buses. Otherwise, he warned, the crowd might turn ugly and there would be bloodshed. The colonel said he could not promise enough transportation. The standoff continued for almost an hour, with the tension rising steadily. Finally, after an hour of weapons drawn and whips at the ready, six blue-and-cream Daveyton buses drew up near the tent. There were cheers and snouts as the crowd made its way onto the vehicles...
...Take care of yourself. Be careful," the fellow said. Montana, he contended, was a bastion of dangerous right-wing zealotry. Not only did the state's residents carry guns, persecute environmentalists and gather behind barbed wire in encampments like the one where the notorious Freemen engaged in an armed standoff with federal agents, but Montana's highways had no speed limits. "The place is still in the Stone Age. It's Neanderthal. Personally, I couldn't live there," the fellow said...
...Americans will never be able to do this to us again.' "After that began the massive Soviet buildup of nuclear arms." We had a policy of building 1,000 weapons, and we thought that if they built up to 1,000 as well, that would be all right, a standoff. What happened is that they didn't stop at 1,000. That is the situation that confronted me when I became President...