Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they will consider returning to the fold at their party congress next October. Center Left Leader Aldo Moro thus far has refused to govern with a Socialist pistol at his head, so last week President Guiseppe Saragat began seeking a more willing candidate-or a better solution to the deadlock...
...deadlock was plainly beginning to irritate Lyndon Johnson, who is coming under increasing pressure to resume all-out bombing. After Deputy U.S. Negotiator Cyrus R. Vance flew back from Paris to brief the President on the talks, Johnson jabbed at Hanoi. "It is time," he told an impromptu White House news conference, "to move from fantasy and propaganda to the realistic and constructive work of bringing peace to Southeast Asia." So far, he declared, the North's only response to his bombing curtailment has been to pour in men and supplies "at an unpreccdented rate." Nonetheless, two clays later...
Even so, if Communist negotiators are true to form, the weeks and months to come will bring well-rehearsed tantrums and tirades, dramatic walkouts and magnanimous walkins, endless impasses and?perhaps?sudden breakthroughs. The upshot could be a hopeless deadlock that would almost surely lead to a wider, more savage war. Or it could be a gradual phase-down in the fighting and, ultimately, peace...
...break the deadlock, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik suggested that the talks be held on one of his country's ships in neutral waters. Malik recalled Johnson's remark last fall that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any." He also recalled that negotiations aboard a U.S. Navy transport led to Indonesia's independence...
...blanket approval of RUS demands. While the Council was at last willing to grant students impressive legislative power, it was still not ready to accept permanent student representation on the Council. More significantly, however, the Council did not force RUS to compromise any of its demands. When an impending deadlock over Council representation became evident, the two parties wisely decided to set up a working government by agreeing on the points they could agree on and leaving the rest for future negotiation...