Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election. They believe that non-Italian progressives will first support one of their own, switching later to a moderate or liberal Italian. Conservative cardinals will try to elect the most attractive representative of the old order, but may settle for the most conservative of the liberals. In case of deadlock, both factions might settle for another aging, short-term Pope whose only positive commitment would be to carry on the council...
Just one year ago, after a bitterly emotional campaign, 1,730,000 Peruvians went to the polls to choose among the three top presidential candidates-and produced a deadlock so explosive that a military junta annulled the whole thing. This week, in a somewhat calmer atmosphere, the voters will try again with the same faces, the same ideologies, and the same soldiers looking over their shoulders...
...must be held first, which makes the situation-like so many in Africa-appear insoluble. Fleeing a police rap, Southern Rhodesia's Black Nationalist Joshua Nkomo showed up in Tanganyika to declare his determination to fight the whole idea of Southern Rhodesia independence under white rule. Viewing the deadlock, Britain's Spectator commented: "What now exists in South ern Rhodesia is a colonial situation in reverse," that is, the Africans themselves earnestly hope Britain will retain what power it has, while the white settlers are demanding instant freedom...
...Charles de Gaulle shocked Europe with his highhanded exclusion of Britain from the Common Market last January, many European officials speculated that the general's action might permanently disrupt the Common Market's progress. Indeed, for two months, meeting after meeting at Brussels ended in recrimination and deadlock. But finally last week the rest of the Six swallowed their resentment at France and got back to business as before...
...talks at the Commodore Hotel had dragged on since noon with no visible progress, and as the clock struck midnight. New York's newspaper strike slipped into its fourth month. Then, with surprising suddenness, the deadlock was broken...