Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stance is growing pressure on Ayub by neutralist Pakistani politicians such as 35-year-old Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Emerging from sessions with Ayub and Bhutto, Ball declared that "we have a better understanding of each other's point of view." It was diplomatese for a stubborn deadlock. Although Ayub privately had made it clear that he will not sign any military pacts with China and wants to remain an ally of the West, he passed along word to his American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down on the new air agreement it had just...
...nature of the church and its ministry. Unanimity on these issues is hard to reach. "Faith and Order is a risky business," admitted Methodist Theologian Albert Outler of Texas' Perkins School of Theology. "We are never farther away than two bigots from disruption or three diehards from a deadlock...
...silly one." Paul Bagwell, sometime G.O.P. candidate for Governor (1958 and 1960), said the party owed Rockefeller "a great debt of gratitude for speaking out." But Michigan's liking for the Rockefeller statement may have been partly traceable to hopes that a Rockefeller-Goldwater deadlock at the 1964 convention might lead to the nomination of Michigan's own Governor George Romney...
...doors installed in their houses long ago to withstand the battering of elephants. In the British island protectorate off the east coast of Africa, voting can be dangerous. The last Zanzibar election, two years ago, ended in bloody race riots with 68 killed. The violence was caused by a deadlock between the Nationalist Party, which is led by Zanzibar's land-owning Arab minority and the Afro-Shirazi Party, which claims to represent the interests of the African majority. Both parties won ten seats in the legislature, but the Nationalists took charge by making a deal with the three...
Unfortunately, neither front seemed to possess the decisive magic. Though without bloodshed the result was essentially the same as last time: another deadlock. The Nationalists won one seat less than the Afro-Shirazis, but the People's Party's six seats were enough to keep the Nationalist coalition in control (18-13) of the expanded legislature...