Word: deadlocking
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Faced with a standoff, the Herut caucus finally asked Meridor to have a confidential chat with Begin. Since the Prime Minister was thought to favor the more experienced Shamir over his young and relatively dovish rival, any word from Begin would have broken the deadlock. But the Prime Minister told Meridor that "in the matter of choosing a successor, I do not want to interfere." Sharon then declared his support for Shamir. One reason: he may have been offered an important post in a Shamir government, possibly as chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement Programs...
...headlong into muscle-bound military machines and mountainous deficits, but neither the White House nor the Democratic congressional leadership is willing to yield ground to cut spending and raise taxes enough to prevent more economic chaos. The sentiment grows in Washington for yet another presidential commission to resolve the deadlock: a device used for the dilemmas on the MX missile, Social Security, Central America and hunger. While it has helped produce notable results for the MX and Social Security issues, the resort to the commission procedure represents an admission of political gridlock...
...Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a close ally of Begin's. But Shamir ranks in stature behind another Cabinet member who is not eligible for the job because he is not a member of the Knesset: Defense Minister Moshe Arens. If Begin's resignation caused a political deadlock that resulted in new elections, and Arens were to win a seat, he would stand a strong chance of emerging as leader, providing the Likud did well at the polls...
According to the constitution, the Diet is the most powerful arm of the government, but it does not always exercise its powers. Murmurs of dissent from the opposition can produce a deadlock that lasts for weeks, while attempts to pass a bill before agreement is reached can lead to brawls and boycotts. Laws that are passed are often worded ambiguously. Members, meanwhile, find themselves devoting much of their time to constituents' requests, no matter how outlandish. A hog-farm operator, for example, kept after his representative for months to find him a hotel that would deliver him its leftover food...
...Moscow of late. But the movement seems isolated in such secondary areas as a human rights agreement at the marathon conference in Madrid (see WORLD). In the far more important arena of nuclear-arms talks, new details of a Soviet proposal seemed to emphasize rather than ease a continuing deadlock. In the Middle East, U.S. diplomacy has stalled severely. Late last week the White House had not even received official confirmation that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would keep a long-scheduled date to visit Washington next week. In Central American policy the Administration, snubbed in an effort to open...