Word: standoff
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...addition to its verbal support, HUCTW members have begun distributing pins and stickers that say: "Give The Harvard Police A Fair Contract." Jaeger and Williams also have received copies of a union letter describing the police union's position regarding the standoff...
These dual meanings bespeak the two perspectives from which Israel and its backers regard the recent entente. There is one essential difference between the accord's Labor sponsors and its Likud opponents: The latter fail to recognize that the uneasy standoff in the Middle East, though it has proven durable, has an essentially temporary character...
...given the duration of the Arab-Israeli standoff, this utterly contingent existence has become comfortable to its engineers...
...opportunity has finally arisen to end the standoff. If Israel is to have any hope of a permanent, sustainable solution to a perpetual terror, it must take a chance. General Sharon, whose bold military exploits earned him his reputation, should know better than anyone that it is sometimes necessary to roll the dice...
While relief was evident when the standoff ended without spilled blood, most Nicaraguans saw little cause to celebrate. The conditions that provoked the confrontation -- governmental disarray, unpopular political appointments, unsettled land grievances and shattered economic hopes -- remain unaffected. Though few citizens are girding for a resumption of the civil war that despoiled Nicaragua throughout the 1980s, there is a palpable fear that if the two sides do not continue a dialogue, the country will sink from political polarization into chaos. "Our tradition has been to divide in times of crisis," says Jose Pallais, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "The solution...