Word: standoff
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...hope for anything good," says Mohammed Safad, 59, working a cigarette cart at the entrance to Sabra. "He will never let us return. He only says no, no, no." That seems to be the kind of realism Israel's new Prime Minister is aiming to instill in Israel's standoff with the Palestinians. But as the uncertainties in Lebanon suggest, it may not be enough to bring peace to the Middle East...
...standoff around Tetovo may prove to be a crucial test for the rebels. The Macedonian government, backed by NATO, has denounced the insurgency as an export from Kosovo rather than a primarily indigenous affair. Still, observers have been shocked at the extent of support the insurgents appear to have garnered from ordinary ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia, and both the minority Albanian and majority Slavic Macedonian communities appear to have been radicalized by the events of the past week. But unless the rebels can make good on their promise to open new fronts of battle elsewhere in Macedonia, the combination...
...quite in line with their recent modus operandi, we couldn't rule out the possibility that this is the work of the Chechen resistance groups. It's very difficult to determine a modus operandi, but if there is one it's that these events occur when there's a standoff in Chechnya. But it may well end up that these are freelancers volunteering to support the cause, or they may even have nothing to do with the cause...
...army, a divide deepened when the two were formally split by President Wahid last year. Last Tuesday in Sampit, in the midst of communal slaughter, the army and the mobile police renewed their internecine rivalry. Exactly how the shooting began remains unclear, but after a six-hour, armed standoff, two people had died and 10 were wounded, including the directorate head of Sampit's police, who was shot twice in the back and is still in critical condition. One of those killed was a Madurese refugee. So much for help from Jakarta...
...minds who know the Cuban missile crisis best--including the defense secretary during the 1962 standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union--gathered last night at the Institute of Politics (IOP) to talk about nuclear weapons and the new movie "Thirteen Days," a film which documents the crisis that almost brought the world to nuclear...