Word: standoff
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...University of Pennsylvania recently gave in to student demands, ending a nine-day standoff. Two sit-ins, at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, are still ongoing. At Wisconsin, more than 50 students entered the chancellor's office and six locked themselves together with bicycle locks. Police officers forced their way into the building and used pepper spray to subdue the demonstrators...
...step down as minister for security, was summarily suspended from the cabinet Sunday, even though the president had indicated only a day earlier that the general could remain in office pending the outcome of an official investigation into his role in last year's East Timor violence. The standoff had fueled rumors of a coup against Wahid, who had asked for the resignation of Wiranto - the military leader who engineered the ouster of former dictator Suharto - while on a two-week world tour pitching Indonesia to foreign investors. But Wahid appears to have moved skillfully and stealthily to isolate...
...probably never thought of the U'Wa Indians. But the tribe is fighting off attempts by Occidental Petroleum to drill for an estimated 1.5 billion bbl. of oil on ancestral lands in the northeast of the country; hundreds of the U'Wa are currently involved in a tense standoff with Colombian troops trying to remove them from drilling sites...
...Burmese dissidents operating out of its territory, the rebels may have pushed their luck. "There's no love lost in Thailand for the Burmese government, and the Thais have generally been sympathetic to the Karens," says Dowell. "Many people were surprised when they chose to resolve the hostage standoff through force, because they tended to negotiate in the past. This may be a case of the Thai government saying 'Enough is enough.'" After all, just three months ago Thailand was embarrassed by a hostage drama at the Burmese embassy, and ended up granting a group allied with God's Army...
...dues to the international body without striking a deal with Helms. "Inviting Helms to speak to the council was a brilliant move on the part of U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He's cultivating Congress and trying to promote a dialogue rather than a standoff. Of course, Helms gave a speech that showed an outdated view of the world, but the event gave both sides an opportunity to pursue a meeting of minds...