Word: standoff
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...China: Iraqi Embassy Standoff...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called it "a triumph for democracy." Late Sunday night, 296 soldiers holed up in a central Manila mall complex decided to return to their barracks after a tense daylong standoff with government troops. Arroyo kept her tough line on the mutineers to the end. Despite their peaceful surrender, Arroyo promised that they would "not be given special treatment...
...jongg dates. "Beijing scares me," admitted Lance Tai, 26, who works in a financial firm, "but we have to demonstrate our determination and let them know that 'one country, two systems' is not working. And neither is Tung Chee-hwa." In other words, Hong Kong has a standoff. Something's got to give...
...DIED. PATRIARCH RAPHAEL I BIDAWID, 81, spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics; in Beirut. Bidawid lobbied for years to end the United Nations' sanctions levied against Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and last year unsuccessfully urged a peaceful solution to Washington's standoff with Saddam Hussein...
...vehicles last year, compared to DaimlerChrysler's 222,000. Then we'd have to mourn the passing of yet another VW icon: the microbus. Gunning For Oil A raid by armed, masked police on the headquarters of Russia's giant Yukos oil corporation last week escalated the standoff between the Kremlin and Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man. His problems started when a senior associate, Platon Lebedev, was accused of the fraudulent privatization of a fertilizer company in 1994. Since then, accusations have been made - though no charges have been brought - that Yukos may have avoided paying taxes...