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Despite the deadlock, the A.N.C. expressed a wary readiness to rejoin talks, though it remained unclear whether De Klerk would meet their demands. The A.N.C., meanwhile, vowed to forge ahead with its "mass action" campaign to force De Klerk to hand over power to an interim government of national unity. (See related stories beginning on page...
Iowa Congressman Jim Leach sees possible deadlock in the House and weird maneuvering in the Senate. "The chemistry cannot be understood in advance," he warns. Arkansas Senator David Pryor fears a "constitutional crisis" in which a discredited Congress would be seen as usurping the voters' will. That happened after the 1824 election, when the House chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in a four-way contest. As recently as 1968, when George Wallace ran as an independent, the country had a close call. Had Wallace won about 60,000 more votes in three states, neither Richard Nixon nor Hubert...
...short months has out of nothing created something far larger than a multibillion- dollar company, or perhaps something even larger than the multimillion- dollar campaign he will fund. Win or lose, his populist crusade and the challenge he is mounting to the establishment parties may well help break the deadlock of American democracy...
...With the blessings of the state legislature, the Vermont Medical Society, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, the Governor signed a bill that will guarantee basic medical treatment to all Vermonters by 1995. In doing so, he made Vermont one of the few states to break the deadlock on health-care reform...
...would pack it in after a single term if the deficit had not been reduced; he was as good as his word. The latest: Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth, also quitting after one term. Like New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman, who bailed out last month, Wirth cited his frustration over deadlock and partisan bickering on Capitol Hill. But like many fellow incumbents, he may also have foreseen a tough re-election campaign. In 1989 Wirth sought to ease restrictions on junk-bond trading; his opponents point out that the bankrupt investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert -- which specialized in junk bonds -- contributed...