Word: standoff
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That outcome had taken weeks of negotiation. When Israeli and Palestinian authorities consented to the deportations as a way to defuse the standoff, Israeli hard-liners and Palestinians of every stripe complained that it was a sellout. But the situation had grown desperate. The city of Bethlehem had been in lockdown since April 2; food inside the church compound had virtually run out. Eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and an Armenian monk had been wounded by an Israeli sniper...
MIDDLE EAST End of an Unholy Siege A five week standoff between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ended peacefully. The siege of one of Christianity's holiest places began on April 2 when Israeli forces swept into the West Bank town and more than 200 Palestinians took refuge in the church. In an agreement brokered by European Union representatives, 13 of the besieged, described by Israeli authorities as "senior terrorists," were flown to Cyprus, where they will remain until other arrangements are made for their exile. As a further 26 survivors...
...Neal, gathered at a small gymnasium in Chicago to evaluate another young 7-footer with surprising agility and a soft touch - 7' 5" Chinese national treasure Yao Ming, whose long-anticipated journey to the NBA has been complicated by, among other things, the China-U.S. spy-plane standoff in 2001. (Thus does globalization overcome borders...
...that the U.N. inquiry include an investigation of Palestinian "terrorism" and that both sides agree on a framework for the U.N. team's activities. In Ramallah, the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his besieged headquarters and reported some progress in resolving the standoff at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Nine youths and the bodies of two policemen were allowed to leave the church, where 250 people have been holed up for weeks...
...members of the Untouchables had somehow anticipated their attack. In an attempt to escape the standoff in the basement, MI6 fled to an A-entryway room where the members of the Public Privates, another team, lived...