Word: standoff
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...diplomats scramble to stop the shooting, each side is demanding that the other back down. The standoff resembles a game played by children in villages throughout Lebanon. Two youngsters stand face to face, and each sticks a finger in the other one's mouth; both start biting down. The one who screams and pulls his finger out first is the loser...
...government's failure to regulate a clearly dangerous product. The antismoking lobby, in its zeal to get its message across, is portrayed as stooping to hasty or manipulative presentation of scientific data. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association comes across as shockingly slow to denounce smoking. To end the present standoff, in which tobacco companies are battling huge lawsuits, Kluger proposes a compromise in which the industry submits to fda regulation of cigarettes in return for immunity from legal liability...
JORDAN, MONTANA: With the standoff in Montana between federal agents and the freemen entering its fifth week, it's time to call in the heavy-duty negotiators. Enter James "Bo" Gritz, former Green Beret colonel and a leading figure in the far right "patriot" movement. After three days of meeting with the remaining fugitives in their cabin, Gritz and Jack McLamb brought back a 26-page document of what Gritz called "legal mumbo-jumbo." The Freemen authored document challenges the constitutionality of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and other branches of government. Gritz announced the Freemen are prepared...
...plus an unknown number of wives and children, remain at Justus Township. Those include Ralph Clark, 65, and his brother Emmett, 67, and Emmett's son Edwin, 45. On Saturday, Emmett's son Richard, 47, who had also been wanted by authoriteis but had not been involved in the standoff, turned himself...
...lawyers geared up for their opening arguments, even the casual Court TV viewer could see that the defense lawyers were locked in a tense standoff. Lucky Shapiro gets to be the first to offer a narrative of the power grabbing and camera hogging by the unruly Dream Teamers, a narrative in which he manages convincingly to describe his frustration at being edged out by Johnnie Cochran while also insisting that his diminished role had been planned all along. Shapiro is skilled, in fact, at doling out praise that is either damning or faint, sometimes both: Marcia Clark was an "honorable...