Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They call it trimming the Christmas tree. As Congress scrambles to adjourn, a wave of special-interest bills and home-state boondoggles is gaveled into law without protest. "The only way sponsors can get them passed is to bulldoze them through and hope that no one notices," says Senator Howard Metzenbaum. "It happens every year." This year is no exception, despite the lawmakers' public hand-wringing about looming deficits...
...prepared to adjourn, I said, "Stalemate here would just provide an opportunity for the most radical elements to take over in the Middle East. A trial period for the West Bank can work, if we agree on it. If we don't, then Moscow and the radicals will rejoice. You must understand our special commitment to Israel, and the fact that the Israelis do want peace. They have not yet responded adequately to the Sadat peace initiative, but they have offered to leave the Sinai and to give autonomy or self-government to the West Bank Arabs, and our hope...
...particular, to put on yet another political farce." The torrent of Western condemnation, interrupted only sporadically by East bloc protests, continued for 4½ hours before the hapless presiding chairman, Jozef Wiejacz, Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister, abruptly recognized a Czechoslovak motion to adjourn the day's session, a move made presumably at Soviet insistence. Wiejacz's parliamentary maneuver provoked even more vituperation from the West. Snapped French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who was next in line when the speakers were cut off: "This is democracy à la East." Added Javier Rupérez, Spanish delegate...
After the inauguration yesterday, amid a throng of onlookers, they took one ballot, and no one got a majority. Then councilor Walter Sullivan stood up and said, "I move we adjourn until next Monday." It may not be the last time...
...would assent to an extension of his term, possibly for a year or two, as a kind of compromise. Technically, there is little time left on the U.N. calendar for that or any other sort of arrangement, since the General Assembly, which must ratify the choice, is scheduled to adjourn on Dec. 15. But delegates can still decide to cut into their Christmas holidays and extend the session. In that event, it appears likely that one of the body's most important decisions in years will be made in typical U.N. fashion: at the last minute, and through byzantine...