Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept right on pumping. OPEC, meanwhile, is currently producing at least 17.5 million bbl. a day, even though demand for its oil is only at 15 million bbl. As a result, prices are plunging while the countries wait to see which one will be the first to blink. The standoff could bring months or even years of rock-bottom energy bills. Says Mani Said al-Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates: "The price war is here." Adds Constantine Fliakos, senior petroleum analyst at Merrill Lynch: "It's a case of everyone for himself...
...other was an investigation into the standoff between the U.S. and the Italian military at the Sigonella NATO base, where the EgyptAir Boeing first landed. Local police reported that tensions between the two allies turned ugly when the U.S. special Delta Force saw its prey being taken from it. Nevertheless, the clash never went beyond raised voices. Said Craxi Envoy Antonio Badini, who negotiated the surrender of the four terrorists to Italian authorities: "Abbas' role appeared to us of secondary significance." More important, he said, "was our respect for international law, our relations with Egypt...
...first heads of state Ronald Reagan cabled for assistance in the TWA hostage standoff was not a trusted ally of the U.S. but a frequent diplomatic adversary, Syrian President Hafez Assad. As a Soviet-armed Arab state sharing a tense 50-mile border with Israel, Syria rarely, if ever, sees eye to eye with Washington on Middle East policy. But the Administration was betting that in the current crisis U.S. interests converged in many ways with Assad's. By agreeing last week to act as the mediator in the release of 39 U.S. hostages from their Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim...
...relatively prosperous 2% minority in greater India, have a slight majority. Tensions came to a head last June after armed Sikh radicals, many of them demanding an independent state to be called Khalistan, barricaded themselves in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. After a week-long standoff between the rebels and the government, the Indian army stormed the temple, at a cost of some 600 lives...
...have anyone to talk to" in the Arab world. After Sadat's death and the factionalization of the PLO in the wake of the Lebanon crisis, this is truer than ever. Yet in a book that attempts to get behind the news to discuss the attitudes forming the current standoff between Israel and her neighbors, communication rifts between Israel and Egypt are largely ignored...