11.   But that is where Milosevic resides today, following a tense standoff at his villa over the weekend that ended with his arrest.

12.   Easing a tense standoff, Tajik rebels began releasing their hostages Friday, just one day after they proclaimed they had begun to kill their prisoners.

13.   For now the Croatians and Serbs maintain a tense standoff.

14.   For hours afterward, police conducted a tense standoff, captured on nationwide television.

15.   From interviews with Chinese officials and Western diplomats, it now appears that the dismissal of Chen followed a tense standoff between the national and local governments.

16.   For years, rangers have complained that their growing mission is leading them into tense standoffs with timber thieves, violent drunks and armed criminals.

17.   He was exiled to Western Europe after the tense military standoff on the streets in which he tried seize power from his brother.

18.   His action eased a tense standoff with the civilian government that raised fears that the country was on the verge of a coup.

19.   If Italy grants him asylum, the move would inflame an already tense diplomatic standoff.

20.   It then devolved into an occasionally tense standoff between the parties over the problems revealed by the election and the means to fix them.