Word: standoff
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...cities across the country fell last week, TIME correspondents were on the battlefields and moving with the front lines. Three reports--on the capital's fall, a gruesome massacre, and an ambush followed by a tense standoff--show the savagery, trickery and betrayal at the heart of Afghan warfare
...with tank tracks, the road from Taloqan to Kunduz was empty of civilian traffic. In the ditches were the bombed remains of Jeeps, tanks and armored personnel carriers. Now and then a truck jounced past carrying Northern Alliance soldiers to the Kunduz front, which had settled into a tense standoff between Alliance and Taliban forces. Inside Kunduz were some 6,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda troops, many of them Arab, Chechen or Pakistani holy warriors with no place in this world left to go. They had retreated into Kunduz after being routed at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan. Now they...
...both sides wanted to avoid a bloodbath, so surrender negotiations continued. On Thursday Dawood claimed the Pakistani air force had begun flying planes into Kunduz on Tuesday night to evacuate "military personnel," meaning some of the Pakistani volunteers. Northern Alliance commanders tried to arrange a deal to end the standoff, possibly by flying out more of the foreign Taliban militants, although it was unlikely that the U.S. would allow it. On Saturday U.S. planes bombed Taliban positions around Kunduz from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., the most sustained bombardment in that area since the beginning of the campaign...
Until the standoff in the Stadium, the Quakers had allowed an average of only 1.6 yards a carry. The Harvard offensive line enabled junior tailback Nick Palazzo to average 5.9 yards a carry on his way to accumulating 88 yards on the afternoon...
Trying to evade a taxi cab fare, a Polish man climbed up a tree on Saturday. The man finally agreed to come down and pay after a standoff with firefighters that lasted about...