Efforts to jump-start N.F.L. labor talks seem to have stalled just days after the owners and players promised to work harder to reach a deal before the collective bargaining agreement expires on March 3. All-day meetings scheduled for Thursday were abruptly canceled, raising doubts that the two sides were any closer to reaching a compromise in their standoff of more than two years.
After Mr. Harper did not respond, there was a standoff of close to two hours.
He then holed up in the room in a standoff of more than two hours that led the authorities to lock down a small section of the building while allowing the rest of the sprawling medical complex to remain open.
After a standoff of weeks, the two sides arranged the negotiations on the economic recovery plan after Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic majority leader, told President Bush and Republican Congressional leaders that he would drop his insistence that a package of Democratic spending initiatives be considered as part of the deal.
Stephen P. Cohen, a South Asia expert and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has famously compared the Siachen standoff to "a struggle of two bald men over a comb," calling it "the epitome of the worst aspects of the relationship" between Indian and Pakistan.
The standoff could end one of two ways, with either the blue or the green block tipping forward, as if bowing down, and receding into the background to allow the other block to pass.
The government did not immediately move to take Elian, and the standoff of more than four months continued.
The A.K.P. claimed that all this had been orchestrated by Gülen's wide network of followers, the climax of a standoff between two influential figures in their bids for authority over Turkish business and politics.
The government also has ignored the high-profile armed standoff between two factions of directors vying for control of the Krystall vodka factory here in the capital.
It was the first time a doctor had seen the hostages since they were abducted by boat from a Malaysian resort eight days ago in one of two kidnapping standoffs now going on in the southern islands.
