Word: deadlocker
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...Wolfensohn had proposed to break the deadlock by having European personnel police the Rafah crossing, but the Israelis still insisted on access to the surveillance camera video feeds and computer data streams at the crossing. Also, the Palestinians wanted to have final authority. The Palestinians also complained the harvest couldn't wait for the months it would take to comply with Israeli demands that they install state-of-the-art scanners to screen trucks. So Wolfensohn threatened to walk, leaving the two sides, as he recounted over the weekend, to "blow each other...
...security-sovereignty deadlock was resolved in a compromise in which the Israelis agreed to cede responsibility for camera surveillance and watch-list screening at Rafah to European personnel, while the Palestinians accepted that the Europeans would have final authority to order extra searches and computer checks on people and vehicles traveling from Egypt to Gaza...
...soccer team fired a season-high 24 shots towards goal on Ohiri Field yesterday afternoon, but the Crimson (5-3-2, 0-1-1 Ivy) was unable to tally a goal against Rhode Island (6-4-1, 2-0-0 Atlantic 10), as the game ended in a scoreless deadlock...
...PROPOSAL YOU'RE PITCHING TO THE U.N. IS TO ALLOW FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS PRIVATE COMPANIES, TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S URANIUM-ENRICHMENT PROGRAM. DO YOU THINK THIS OPENNESS, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL TO PROFIT, WILL FINALLY BREAK THE DIPLOMATIC DEADLOCK...
...Lebanese intelligence services, though Syria denies involvement. Rising tensions seem unlikely to abate unless Emile Lahoud, the pro-Syrian President, resigns, but he refuses to do so and the opposition bloc is short of the two-thirds majority required to begin impeaching him. That portends a potential deadlock between a President determined to see out his term and an opposition-dominated government that believes Lahoud was involved in the murder of former Premier Rafik Hariri. "How can you have Lahoud sitting around the same Cabinet table with ministers who are united by the one thought that he is responsible...