Word: standoff
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...deal. In a speech in Los Angeles, the President welcomed the Bonn proposal. "We can wrap up an agreement on intermediate-range nuclear missiles promptly," he said. "We ask ourselves, Are we entering a truly new phase in East-West relations? Is far-reaching, enduring change in the postwar standoff now possible? Surely, these are our hopes...
Paris ordered three minesweepers and support ships to join a French naval detachment that is gathering in the region. That display of muscle is designed to strengthen France's hand in its continuing diplomatic standoff with Iran. The two countries severed relations last month after France blockaded Iran's embassy in Paris, where an interpreter suspected of terrorism is hiding. Iran responded by surrounding the French embassy in Tehran and holding 15 French citizens hostage inside...
...member of Hizballah commandeered an Air Afrique jet, singled out a French passenger and shot him dead. Though the hijacking was staged ostensibly to force West Germany to release two jailed Hizballah operatives, the killing of the Frenchman suggested another motive: to pressure Paris to end the continuing diplomatic standoff between France and Iran. Washington last week quietly warned government installations at home and abroad to be alert to the Iranian threat. In West Berlin, the Allied Command ordered a number of Iranian diplomats to leave the city "in the interests of public order and security...
...Saturday, Mohtashami made his espionage charges, claiming that the French diplomats had "acted as a connecting bridge to help counterrevolutionaries escape abroad and also to help link splinter groups inside Iran." French officials accused Iran of making the spying allegations in order to create a situation parallel to the standoff in Paris. They announced that if Tehran approves, Italy will represent France in Iran, where nearly 300 French nationals still reside, in addition to the embassy personnel. The first job for the Italians would be to try to defuse the crisis by negotiating the mutual repatriation of the French...
...time when so much art is ironic, distanced and parasitically given to quoting the Big Media, Murray's work goes against the grain. It presents a standoff between fracture and extreme sensuousness. It is nominally abstract, a bit hard to read at first -- until you are used to the shaping and layering of canvas planes in the paintings and of separate sheets of paper in the drawings -- but almost profligate in its flat-out appeal to the eye. The chrome yellows and leaf greens, cobalts, pinks, purples and deep, reverberant blacks that proliferate in her work are the signs...