Word: deadlocking
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...longer in any real hurry to impose them. Among other things, Washington is waiting for the outcome of Iran's first presidential election, in the hope that it might produce a new leader with enough authority to face down the embassy militants, or otherwise break the deadlock...
...problem is a deadlock in the negotiations over autonomy for the 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. Resolution of the issue is regarded by Washington as a matter of the highest importance. Moderate Arab leaders have warned the Carter Administration that unless the problem is solved, the U.S. will be unable to offset Soviet influence in the region by forming strong and unambiguous alliances with the Muslim Middle East...
...Jordan's Hussein was changing his strategy and was now prepared to take on the task of administering the West Bank's self-government, as called for by the Camp David accords. Hussein is unquestionably uneasy about Sadat's suggestion that one way to break the deadlock would be to start by establishing self-rule in Gaza under Egyptian administration. To offset Cairo's influence in Gaza, Hussein has stepped up his country's activities in the West Bank. Among other things, the Jordanians have conducted a census in the territory, announced plans to open...
March 25: On the 134 ballot the Cambridge City Council breaks its deadlock by electing Alfred Vellucci Mayor. Velucci promises to push for the conversion of Harvard Yard into low-cost condominiums for the working people of Cambridge...
August 30: The Republican Convention finally breaks its deadlock, and nominates Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in the excitement of the moment, suffers a fatal heart attack. Unwilling to deliberate further, and ignoring Constitutional provisions barring his election to a third term, the exhausted Convention selects Richard Nixon as its standard bearer. Not to be outdone by Carter, Nixon chooses the Dalai Lama as his running mate, saying that he hopes having an incarnate Buddha on the ticket will "allow the Republican Party to escape the wheel of death and rebirth...