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...officials of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) announced yesterday their unqualified support for the Harvard police union in its current contract deadlock with Harvard...
While there is room for compromise, and both sides are pledging a genuine effort to negotiate, there is also a possibility of deadlock. But the battle lines are more fluid than usual: the Administration has artfully put together various ideas into a plan with enough of a something-for-everybody approach to splinter some normally united interest groups...
...district and preside over a high-visibility conference -- including all concerned interests -- on checking the cost of entitlements. They talked it through for a few minutes until Clinton said, "Let's do it." Now, at 10:15, the electronic tabulation was complete, and the scoreboard showed 216-216. Deadlock would have meant defeat. Whereupon Williams and Margolies-Mezvinsky went to the rostrum and cast their ayes on paper. "I did it not so much for the budget," Williams said, "as for movement. My vote was to help us set sail again...
Those talks are supposed to resume in late August, if Secretary of State Warren Christopher can nudge the players from their deadlock when he visits the region this week. That prospect provided the background for the seven-day barrage. Both guerrilla groups targeted by the Israelis -- Hizballah and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front -- are dedicated to the destruction of Israel and violently oppose the peace process that began 21 months...
...rare moment of humor in a listless campaign in which both candidate and voters have acted as if a week in the Gulag would be preferable to enduring one more speech. To break his deadlock with the nay-saying parliament, Yeltsin has organized a national vote on April 25 that will ask Russians whether they trust their President, whether they approve of his economic reform policies and whether they favor holding early elections for both President and the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin is determined to win yes votes on all four points...