Word: deadlocking
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...third, Fisher has been in touch with the State Department and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), suggesting possible ways to break the deadlock in the Mideast settlement...
Vellucci siad last week he would continue to vote for himself. Vellucci seems likely to eventually win ultimately, although the deadlock may continue for some time...
...months ago: then all was preparation for a Geneva conference. But that conference was distrusted by Egypt and Israel alike. Major procedural problems were unresolved: the scope of the plenary and the working groups, the nature of Palestinian participation, the precise role of the Soviet Union. The procedural deadlock would in all likelihood have been followed by a substantive stalemate as the irreconcilability of the opposing publicly stated positions became apparent. All the most intractable issues were thrown together...
...with only ten candidates running for six spots, the incumbents are campaigning hard for number one votes, and the challengers have a good chance of ousting someone and breaking the three-three liberal-conservative deadlock. The most vulnerable incumbent seems to be independent James F. Fitzgerald, an arch-conservative who has been on the School Committee for most of the last 46 years...
...thin air. Only the Alliance Party, which stresses reconciliation and espouses both the link with Britain and Catholic civil rights, gives indications that it might one day unite enough moderate Catholic and Protestant support to form an electoral majority, which is the formula necessary to overcome the political deadlock. The more extremist parties are too closely associated with the paramilitaries to be overly concerned with constitutional questions...