Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Harvard's front line came close to breaking the scoreless deadlock on several occasions, the best chance coming four minutes into the first overtime...
Last week's unscheduled session at the White House was convened at Gromyko s request. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance dashed back to Washington from the U.N. General Assembly session in Manhattan. Gromyko brought the Politburo's approval of a formula aimed at breaking the SALT deadlock. From the White House meeting and Vance-Gromyko talks in New York City later in the week, the following prospective compromise for SALT II has emerged...
What especially annoyed the Kremlin was Carter's brand of open diplomacy. During Vance's March visit to Moscow, for instance, the Secretary candidly briefed the press on the course of the talks and seemed to blame the Russians for their collapse. The continuing deadlock quickly convinced the Administration of the virtues of secrecy-at least as far as SALT is concerned. The so-called back-channel that Henry Kissinger found very useful in concluding SALT I was reactivated. Thus, while U.S. and Soviet SALT delegations have been meeting regularly in Geneva to discuss secondary issues (like methods...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Administration last week said it planned to make a "unilateral policy declaration" promising to abide informally by the SALT ceilings, "provided that the Soviet Union exercises similar restraint." Moscow is expected to make the same promise this week. But the longer the arms deadlock, the greater are the chances that each side will develop new weapons systems that future treaties may find impossible to eliminate or control...
...deadlock underscored the fragility of the leftist coalition, which, it has been widely predicted, may win the elections for the National Assembly next March. (One poll taken before last week's meeting gave the left a 53% majority.) But any further aggravation of the rift could wreck those victory chances. The dispute focuses attention on the all but ignored third partner in the coalition, Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command...