Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effective action." In the interests of peace, the U.S. would continue with the negotiations but Russia would soon have to fish or cut bait. To make that point clear, the U.S. and Great Britain last week asked the U.N. to debate the "critical situation" caused by the Geneva deadlock at the General Assembly session beginning in September...
...West's first great blunder, according to Kennan, was World War I. Following the military deadlock of the fall of 1914, he says, there should have been a compromise peace. For total victory was impossible, due to the fact that modern warfare is too blunt and undiscriminating an instrument for the accomplishment of any aim other than mass destruction...
After three months of weary deadlock, Belgium finally got a new government. It was about time. Its Congo empire lost, its economy lagging, the nation was suffering from a severe crisis of morale. Rich and robust a decade ago, it has become the Common Market's weakest link. Mobs last winter had run through the streets, hurling cobblestones, shouting hate. The two traditional political foes-the Socialists and the Social Christians-bickered on and on. Then last week they buried the hatchet and joined to form a coalition government...
...Even the diehard whites were beginning to admit that it was only a question of time before the man they dreaded would be back in circulation-probably as Kenya's first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap in the dark has to be taken...
...Nursemaid. But the overriding consideration has been his concern for the future of France. As he is well aware, France can play no significant international role while the Algerian deadlock persists. "This army," he said recently, with rarely voiced affection, "the best that France has had since Napoleon, is wasting its time playing children's nursemaid in Algeria, when its place is on the Rhine and in the laboratory." And so long as Algeria remains unsettled, France cannot play the grand role De Gaulle envisions for it in international politics. The Arab world remains hostile, and the danger that...