The civilians of the Kajaki area are suffering the most from the standoff, driven from their homes and unable to farm their fields, the workers said.
In the past week, a poisonous, seemingly ego-driven standoff between the two has had protesters hitting the streets, ethnic tensions rising, the nation's currency taking a dive and diplomats hustling about town, begging the adversaries to stop playing politics and come to their senses before things get ugly — again.
While the standoff was partially driven by Sudan's interest in utilizing this pressure over South Sudan to attempt to score concessions from Juba (related to transit fees and border demarcation), Sudan ultimately stands to lose out from a prolonged shutdown of South Sudanese oil, given the lucrative transit fees that Khartoum could gain should South Sudanese oil production reach maximum capacity.
To the embarrassment of the English volunteer who had driven her to the shop, a standoff ensued, with the nun and the owner reiterating their positions over and over.
The cycle of standoffs drove one of the last remaining Republican moderates from the House this week.
The standoff began last Tuesday when Mr. Dykes approached a bus driven by Charles Albert Poland Jr., saying he wanted to give him some broccoli he had grown in his garden.
Wes Kjar rode shotgun as we drove away from the standoff, over the Stinkingwater Mountains toward Idaho.
Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, then, may provide a window into a church teaching that is helping to drive the most serious standoff between the church and the federal government in decades.
But if you actually look at the measures of uncertainty involved, they've been driven not by fear of Mr. Obama but by events like the euro crisis and the standoff over the debt ceiling.
For the Nassau County police, the fatal standoff came a day after three officers wounded a man after he had driven off in a marked police car in Oyster Bay and tried to run them down, the police said.
Officials in the United States have said that Tamerlan, 26, died after being shot during a standoff with the police in Watertown, Mass., and then run over by a vehicle driven by his younger brother as he escaped.
