Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal condition of the Korean truce talks is deadlock. After a major concession by one side or the other, a brief spurt of progress usually follows, and then the deadlock settles down again. Hopeful observers who in July hoped for peace in August, and in October hoped for peace in November, and now hope for peace by New Year's, suffer from what might be called the fallacy of momentum. They assume that each spurt of progress will generate enough energy to carry the negotiators quickly over all the remaining obstacles. It never seems to work out that...
...armistice (after it is signed) by behind-the-lines inspection. Last week, when the matter was handed over to two-man subcommittees, it soon became clear that the big Red concession was as full of tricks as a magician's trunk. The situation at week's end: deadlock...
...Deadlock. By the time balloting came, the U.S. was still trying hectically to piece together what Moscow likes to call the "Americans' automatic majority." But it could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...
...that joint U.N.-Communist observation teams should be given access to all parts of Korea. Key point of the Communist proposal was that a joint armistice commission should be set up with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
...long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway's men served it up, piping hot, to the Reds in the rain-soaked tent at Panmunjom...