Word: standoff
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...welcomed De Gaulle's call for parliamentary elections and immediately laid plans for campaigning. Most French political experts gave De Gaulle's party only a slight chance of regaining its slim working majority in the National Assemblv. It seemed likely, in fact, that there would be a standoff between Gaullists and leftists in the race for the National Assembly's 487 seats. In that event, there would undoubtedly ensue a period of intense maneuvering until one side won enough supporters from the independent center parties to try to form a government. In the less likely event...
...forcing upon the still fragile South Vietnamese government a coalition that, by including Communists, might well swallow it. Nonetheless, any settlement that emerges from the Paris talks will ultimately have to reflect the harsh reality of the battlefield, and that reality may be the one that now prevails: a standoff. The U.S. cannot expect to get the kind of settlement it would if the enemy had been routed or were in any immediate danger of defeat. Thus, in all likelihood, some provision will eventually have to be made to give the Communists representation in a Saigon government, presumably through elections...
...continuation of diplomacy by other means," declared the 19th century Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz in his famous aphorism. He would well appreciate what the Communists are up to on the battlefields of South Viet Nam these days. In military terms, the war is largely a standoff, with no prospect in sight that either side can deliver a knockout punch to the other. But to help out the Communists negotiating with the U.S. in Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have adopted what might be called a strategy of appearances...
...expectations were electric, and in some respects, the duel between the Secretary and Committee, Chairman William Fulbright was dramatic enough. But the outcome was a curiously flat standoff...
...next afternoon, using the rugby rules, the two teams played to a scoreless standoff. Boastful spectators attributed Harvard's successful adaptation to rugby to "Yankee ingenuity and aptitude." In a rematch the following year in Montreal, the Harvard team, sporting flashy new uniforms, trounced McGill soundly at the Canadians' own game...