Word: standoff
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...militia country, the standoff at "Roby Ridge" ends quietly (TIME Daily...
...strike, at Diamond Walnut Growers in Stockton, Calif., was just such an issue. After 700 union members walked out in 1991, the firm hired replacement workers to process and package its 100,000 tons of nuts a year. The Teamsters demanded the jobs back, and the company refused, a standoff that persists today. But in 1995 the strike was seen by presidential aides as a chance, the memo said, to "rekindle" the Teamster bosses' affection for Clinton. Identifying the strike as one of Carey's "biggest problems," the memo urged Ickes to "assist in any way possible...
...film, the use of the media plays a significant role in the agency's behaviors. The film shows the raid to be more of a publicity stunt than a necessary action. The film is unflinching in its characterization of the ATF as a rogue agency that used the Waco standoff to create an appearance of legitimacy through semantics. What would normally be considered "inventory" became "stockpiles." A "sect" became a "cult." Since the documentary is itself a form of the media, it shows a great deal of interest in the manipulation and withholding of this information. "God help...
...unusual standoff quietly grinds on in Illinois farm country (TIME Daily...
...bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman in public. But she will deliver a "reality check" to Arafat and Netanyahu on the consequences of their standoff, says her spokesman James Rubin...