Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Choosing of a New and Better Future, for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Rivera put in a head of Lenin and refused to take it out, though he offered to counterface it with some portraits of Lincoln and other moral equivalents. The result of this Mexican standoff was that the Rockefellers effaced the mural, while the Communist Party denounced Rivera for "opportunism." This finished Rivera's career as the conflicted Michelangelo of American capitalism, and he went back to Mexico to become the wholehearted Tintoretto of the peons...
...public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however, may tempt Pinochet to scrap even that small step toward democracy. "In the next weeks," predicts Orlando Saenz, a Chilean industrialist, "Pinochet could well declare that present conditions make 1989 impossible." If that happens, the tense standoff between the government and the opposition may turn ugly...
...police surrounded the school and townspeople scrambled to raise ransom money, Doris tried to comfort the scared and tired children by bringing in library books, crayons and a television set. Some youngsters wept; a few vomited into the classroom sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash...
Infuriated by the charges, Peres last week sought to fire Moda'i, thus triggering a bitter standoff. Shamir, who is scheduled to become Prime Minister in October under the coalition agreement, blocked Moda'i's dismissal and accused Peres of seeking to scuttle the political accord. When Moda'i offered to resign Wednesday, Likud ministers closed ranks. If Moda'i goes, Shamir vowed, "all Likud will go too, and Peres should know that in contemplating sacking Moda'i, he is in fact bringing down this government...
...standoff continued with the demonstrators confronting about 100 university police officers plus additional officers called in from nearby cities...