Word: standoff
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Yesterday was the latest development in what has been a five-year standoff between Berkowitz and the University...
...having a second man wounded - the first casualties, some will say, of the coming war for Iraq. Of course there is no war, right now, and the Pentagon insists that the training exercise in Kuwait had been planned months ago and had nothing to do with the current standoff. Then again, that planned exercise had been the annual joint maneuvers between U.S. and Kuwaiti forces, but Tuesday U.S. troops alone conducted an urban-warfare exercise amid reports that Iraq plans to face any invading force in its cities...
...long as the standoff continues, it is up to college counselors to determine whose policies will be instituted and how they will be enforced...
...Washington last week urged Israel to "consider the consequences" of its action, then on the weekend publicly calling the siege "unhelpful" (and unlikely to stop terror attacks). By Sunday, Israel had ceased demolition activities and opened talks over resolving the standoff. The Bush Administration is also trying to head off a Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli action, because using its veto in support of Israel won't help win Arab converts to the cause of regime-change in Baghdad. But resolving the standoff won't be easy: Israel is demanding the surrender of some 50 wanted men inside Arafat...
...threat necessitates their continued military presence. Indeed, they say, the comparative lull of the six weeks preceding last Wednesday's bombing was a result of their security actions foiling hundreds of planned attacks in the same period rather than of any change on the Palestinian side. And so the standoff continues, always on the brink of a major new outbreak of violence...