A theory: did the Virginia attorney general's legal standoff with the University of Virginia over a climate scientist's records help precipitate the trustees' ouster of the university's president?
Asked why the two enemies did not shake hands here, as they did six months ago at the peak of another potential nuclear standoff, General Musharraf replied: "I shook hands with him.
General Martins's standoff with the administration is writing a new chapter in a familiar narrative: since the 2001 terrorist attacks, military lawyers in the Judge Advocate General's Corps have repeatedly clashed with politically appointed lawyers over the laws of war.
Now after months of deadlock and bloodshed, negotiations between Mr. Zadran and Mr. Karzai, through a mediator, may be close to ending the standoff, General McNeill said today in an interview at his headquarters at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.
For most Burmese -- the tens of millions who have not been able to fight the generals to a standoff -- all of these difficulties persist, along with a fear of being jailed and tortured by Military Intelligence.
Days of general strikes and standoffs with the police led the French President Charles de Gaulle to call a general election.
Finally, after a six-month standoff, Attorney General Janet Reno ordered Elián's return to Cuba, and armed American border agents came to retrieve him.
