Word: standoff
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...blue ribbon at the American Film Festival, Primary won Kennedy’s approval, and he invited cinéma vérité directly into the Oval Office. The result was the 1963 film, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, which documented the federal government’s standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace over educational integration. Few films since have chronicled presidential power with such immediacy—an immediacy too acute for the tastes of the New York Times editorial page, which lambasted Kennedy for making a mockery of the governing process...
...strategic symmetry of the standoff remains, today, the same as it was in the late 1980s: Palestinian violence is unable to pose any strategic threat to Israel or to roll back its occupation; Israel's vastly superior military resources are unable to destroy either the traditional Palestinian nationalist movement nor its more militant rivals. Neither side can prevail through force, and periods of calm simply punctuate bouts of increasingly bitter violence. Sooner or later, Arafat will die, or be removed in some way from his position of power. But that may not substantially alter the strategic logjam...
...Standoff in Iraq Many with 20/20 hindsight blame George W. Bush for invading Iraq [Sept. 20]. Their hypocrisy is glaring, as an antiwar position can only mean Saddam Hussein and his two sadistic sons would still be in power. It is incredible that people can't see that if Saddam had not been removed, before long Iraq would have bankrolled terrorist organizations and suicide bombers to target Americans. Frank Wenceslao Norwalk...
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...praying for peace in the region and an end to terrorist activities. The devastation in Indonesia has shocked the world and clearly shows that Muslim nations are also strongly affected by terrorism the same way other countries are. Peace is something the region demands now. Akshay Mor Bombay Standoff in Iraq Many with 20/20 hindsight blame Bush for invading Iraq [Sept. 20]. Their hypocrisy is glaring, as an antiwar position can only mean Saddam Hussein and his two sadistic sons would still be in power. It is incredible that people can't see that if Saddam had not been removed...