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...taking place between a military junta and a democratic government of a free people-one which is not prepared to compromise that democracy and that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed archipelago. "If the [war] zone is challenged," she declared, "we shall take that as the clearest evidence that the search for a peaceful solution has been abandoned. We shall then take the necessary action. Let no one doubt that...
Both goalies made the stops they had to in the third period, and although each team had three power plays, neither could break the deadlock...
...after President Reagan sent a message to Premier Zhao Ziyang expressing his desire for "an even stronger framework for long-term friendship," Zhao replied in a similarly cordial tone, saying in effect that China was willing to try to break the Taiwan deadlock. Clearly, in the vital interests of both nations, they must do so. As Richard Nixon, reflecting on his finest hour, wrote last week in the New York Times, "The bottom line is that both sides must recognize the paramount importance of preserving the new relationship. Neither of us can allow anything, including differences over Taiwan, to jeopardize...
...Occasionally it proved painful. But Israel's security could be preserved only by anchoring it to a strategic interest of the U.S., not to the sentiments of individuals. On this basis the Communist-baiter from Southern California and the refugee from Nazi Germany joined to break the deadlock of Middle East diplomacy...
This year, to break the deadlock, the President threw his direct support behind a bill introduced last December in the House by Democrat Thomas Luken of Ohio. The legislation does not give in to industry demands for an easing of "primary" air-quality standards, which would directly affect the health of Americans. And in spite of business's claims that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits...