Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think they can explain it. As Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro doesn't balance the ticket philosophically, being liberal, pro-union and all, but it may help that she is Catholic, urban and ethnic, though that might hurt the Southern strategy. A sort of Sunbelt-Frostbelt standoff, if you get the drift, complicated by the blue-collar factor. Of course, the gender gap is the key to everything: more women, more votes. Got it. But wasn't something else involved in Mondale's decision to propose a woman for Vice President of the United States...
...were intercepted by two Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One, and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf. Again, the Saudis intercepted them. After a brief standoff, the Iranian planes withdrew...
...been a frustrating standoff. For more than three years, Administration officials and some development-minded Republican Senators from Western states stalled legislation designed to add millions of acres of undeveloped forest land to the nation's 80 million-acre protected wilderness system. Conservationists, aided by sympathetic Democratic House members, stymied plans for the commercial exploitation of millions more acres of federally controlled woodlands. The issue between the battling groups: how to manage the pristine forests not protected by the wilderness preserves. Last week the combatants announced a compromise that clears the way for about 10 million acres of forests...
...initial accounts were tragically straightforward. Two weeks ago, four Arab men hijacked a bus south of Tel Aviv. Their demand: free 25 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails or else the vehicle and its 39 passengers would be blown up. Then followed a tense, almost ten-hour standoff. Dozens of soldiers ringed the bus; inside, one of the terrorists could be seen holding a grenade launcher. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., Israeli commandos rushed the bus. Two terrorists were killed instantly, and the other two died of their wounds on the way to the hospital. One passenger died and seven...
...Carter in particular, and for the U.S. in general, the desert debacle was a military and political fiasco. A once dominant military machine, first humbled in its agonizing standoff in Viet Nam, now looked incapable of keeping its aircraft aloft even when no enemy knew they were there, and even incapable of keeping them from crashing into each other despite four months of practice for their mission...