Word: standoff
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...Congressional gridlock, but Cambridge is facing its own standoff as the City Council, which is responsible for choosing a mayor, has remained at an impasse for more than a month...
...mayoral standoff is a result of deadlock between the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the Alliance for Progress (the Independents). Each group comprises four members who cast their ballots for only those with "party" backing...
...lured from booze and drugs into the bunkers of a Colorado religious cult. On first seeing this ramshackle structure, he thinks "this would go up like bales of hay if it ever started to burn." Sure enough, in a sequence closely modeled on the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff and tragedy in Waco, Texas, the torches arrive...
...hostages and killing dozens more in the process. Demanding the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya, the rebels then took 165 hostages with them in an attempted escape to Chechnya. En route, however, Russian forces fired upon the rebels, who quickly captured a border village, creating a tense standoff half a mile from Chechnya...
Zarakhovich says the prevailing political winds favor more indiscriminate violence. Monday, Yeltsin appointed as his new chief of staff Nikolai Yegorov, an aide that he fired last year for mishandling another prominent hostage standoff with Chechen rebels. "This is a very ominous sign," says Zarakhovich. "He was one of the key people who engineered the war in Chechnya, and his policy was to kill all the Chechens." Beyond that, the newly-elected Communist Duma starts its first session Tuesday, and few in the plurality would treat the Chechens lightly. "Ever since the war stopped, this story has really been...