Word: standoff
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Just miles from the airport, an embarrassing standoff was unfolding between the government and three antiapartheid leaders who escaped from custody earlier in the week. The three, who were being held without trial under South Africa's 27-month-old state-of-emergency laws, slipped away from guards while receiving physical therapy at Johannesburg Hospital. After making their way across the city, they took refuge in the U.S. consulate on the eleventh floor of the bustling Kine Center, a popular shopping and office complex...
Last week the Serbian Communist Party organization and its popular boss, Slobodan Milosevic, defied a government demand that the protests be stopped. Late in the week the government in Belgrade attempted to defuse the increasingly tense standoff by agreeing to send a Serbian police unit into a Kosovo village to help federal authorities protect the local Serbs...
...together victories in the right combination of states to win the magic 270 electoral votes. In recent years, that has been easy for Republicans, given their virtual lock on the electoral votes of the South and West. But this year Michael Dukakis and George Bush start from a near standoff in the number of electoral votes represented by states solidly for them or leaning their way. So the election seems likely to be won (or lost) in a handful of battleground states, especially the Big Three of Texas, Illinois and California. Together they cast 100 electoral votes...
...still a standoff. The world is out to get Ronald Reagan's goat even in his last months as President. And Reagan is determined not to allow...
Depending on whom you ask, the Rev. Herman Fountain's Bethel Home for Children is either successful therapy for troubled youths or a Dickensian nightmare. Last week a bizarre standoff between Fountain and state officials climaxed when police raided his Lucedale, Miss., Baptist school and church, rounding up 72 children between the ages of ten and 17. Earlier, a state judge had ruled that the children had been subjected to "physical abuse, medical neglect and detention amounting to imprisonment," and ordered that the state department of public welfare take them into emergency custody...