Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch on to this significant news early last month, at the height of the impasse over Suez Canal negotiations. The British were willing to evacuate the zone only after an Egyptian promise to keep British technicians and join the Western-sponsored Middle East Defense Organization. The Egyptians refused; the deadlock seemed unbreakable. Nasser called in a British correspondent and told him: "What is our policy? It is evacuation-complete independence." Egypt, he said coolly, was not interested in a Middle East Command. But, he went on: "We are soldiers and we are realists. We cannot maintain such an immense base...
...their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York's Representative W. Sterling Cole as their chairman and Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper as vice chairman...
...deadlock had lasted through six meetings of the committee. Six times the members had divided right down the middle: eight Senators for Hickenlooper, eight Representatives for Cole. Then House Speaker Joe Martin and Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft stepped in. Martin convinced Taft that the Represenatives were right in their contention that the chairmanship should alternate between Senate and House. Taft persuaded the Senate members to retreat from their stand that a Senator should always head the committee...
Last week the deadlock was broken. A new coalition cabinet was formed. The neo-Nazis were excluded, which was a victory for the Socialists. But the rightists in the People's Party also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament...
...Montreal Canadians broke a second period deadlock and defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4 to 1 last night in the deciding game of their best of seven semifinal Stanley Cup playoff series in the National Hockey League. Montreal will meet Boston in the finals, which start in Montreal Thursday...