Word: standoff
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...long time it was impossible to negotiate at all. The Iranians had what they wanted. They did not seek the moral approval of the world; they wanted only to see the U.S., the Shah's great friend, tied to the ground like Gulliver. The result was a standoff between rage and outrage, and both persist, the U.S. outrage now informed by tales of harassment of the hostages and by the uniformity of their bitterness...
...police were sent to break up sit-ins in Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne. Though authorities stopped short of ousting the 400 workers and farmers occupying the old official union offices in Rzeszow, they refused to enter into any negotiations with the protesters that might resolve the tense local standoff...
Though U.S. diplomats were concerned that ultimately the Soviets just might arrest an American to set up a possible trade, or even that Afghan troops might storm the embassy, the matter seemed, so far, a standoff. It was obviously impossible to spirit the soldier out to the West. On the other hand, particularly in the midst of an election campaign, the Carter Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting...
...seen speeding away from the farm along with a white Mercedes-Benz. Within hours, the cars were traced to a Salisbury apartment complex. While Tekere and a number of his heavily armed bodyguards holed up inside, some 40 police gunmen laid siege to the building. After a lengthy standoff, the scene shifted to Tekere's high-walled suburban home, to which the erratic Minister retreated with his bodyguards...
...Frustrated by a six-year-old East-West diplomatic standoff over Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...