Word: standoff
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That is troubling news for the Middle East negotiations, or for any other effort to find a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. While the P.L.O. is committed to searching for accommodation with Israel, Hamas will settle for nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. "Between Hamas and Israel," says Abdul Sattar Kassem, a political scientist at An-Najah University in Nablus, "it is a battle to the death...
...wield it often strike without warning or remorse. Parolee Terry Boatwright, facing accusations that he had raped and also injected his ex-girlfriend with his own tainted blood because he wanted her to know what it was like to live with HIV, shot himself to death during a standoff with Escambia County (Florida) sheriffs on Nov. 28. Two days later, a Portland, Oregon, judge sentenced Alberto Gonzalez to 113 months in prison for having unprotected sex with a 17-year-old girl last year and giving her marijuana. Gonzalez knew he had the AIDS virus since...
...letter said the clerical and technical workers union has "settled into a tense and hostile standoff with administrators who are unwilling to offer them a decent economic package...
...proposed settlement was scuttled over a plan to cap annual oilseed production in Europe. The E.C. agreed to reduce the production limit from 12.5 million tons to 11 million tons but refused to accede to American requests to slash it again to 8.5 million tons. It was this standoff that finally drove Hills to take action...
...hastened the already simmering Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union and, hence, that protracted standoff between vast swatches of the planet that came to be called the cold war. It foretold the beginning of the end of European overseas expansion. And the U.S., against many of its instincts, became a superpower...