Word: deadlocking
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...thread of folly that runs through Barbara Tuchman's books is a filament of doom. In The Guns of August, a wrongheaded French strategy in the first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-siéde Europe and America in The Proud Tower are primed to explode in that same war. And the chaos of the 14th century becomes A Distant Mirror of the modern distemper...
...against the Soviet arsenal at a lower level. They insist on total withdrawal of American missiles while retaining a large number of their own. The goal of leaving Europe vulnerable to Soviet nuclear blackmail is obvious. Yet significant segments of European opinion persist in blaming the U.S. for the deadlock. In Europe and in the U.S., this attitude must in time erode the public support needed not only for missile deployment but also for coherent arms control...
While this yearly deadlock shows no signs of subsiding, campus attention has recently been thrust upon another aspect of the perennial debate over Harvard's more than $400 million worth of stock in companies operating in South Africa. The question that is being increasingly asked is whether Harvard really can use its influence to foster positive change in the apartheid state. The focus of this debate is on the so-called "Sullivan Principles," a set of equal opportunity and labor standards for companies operating in the country...
...simple reason that our government is not to their liking." This statement has stood the test of time. Fantastic allegations about the Soviet Union's ambitions for "world supremacy" and "a world Communist government" may only lead the cause of international intercourse and cooperation into a dangerous deadlock. The hue and cry about "international terrorism" allegedly being masterminded by the Soviet Union is just as absurd...
...first place, last spring the ACSR voted to a deadlock of 6 to 6 on the question of total divestment. The ACSR's internal division is a good excuse for the Harvard Corporation to ignore the ACSR. Pragmatically speaking, further efforts in such a deadlocked situation are futile. The 12-member ACSR is appointed by president Bok--four students, four faculty and four alumni...