Word: deadlocking
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Some of these points had been agreed on, in principle at least, before Kissinger's shuttle flights between Jerusalem and Cairo were grounded by deadlock. But political changes since that time have helped nudge the principals closer on remaining issues. One change is that Rabin's government, too weak in the spring to risk a final yes to Egypt and survive criticism at home, is stronger now. Ironically, the principal reason for its strength is public approval of Rabin's earlier decision to say no to Kissinger because Israel was not completely satisfied with the terms...
...White House to discuss the Egyptian proposals on the Sinai. In Israel, there were exaggerated stories that the President had given the ambassador a "brutal" ultimatum to make concessions or risk losing U.S. support. Ford denied that he had given Dinitz any ultimatum but insisted that a Sinai deadlock was "an open invitation to war." Unless the deadlock ends, Ford indicated, the U.S. may be forced to agree to a Geneva conference, which it does not really want under such conditions, and might make its own suggestions there for a solution. Complained Ma'ariv, Israel's largest newspaper...
...chief obstacle to solving the deadlock remained the status of the Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai. The passes are the only viable routes through the Sinai mountains for armies moving either toward the Suez Canal or away from it toward the Israeli border. Israel, which controls the passes, has offered to pull back to their eastern end, where it maintains electronic listening equipment to monitor Egyptian troop movements. Egypt's Sadat, on the other hand, demands that Israel pull out of both passes completely. He has threatened not to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace...
...nation had a coordinated energy policy. As it was, however, the vote merely highlighted the inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic-controlled Congress to draft any sustainable energy program of its own. So long as that deadlock continues, the U.S. will apparently be left to OPEC's none-too-tender mercies...
...more aware than Sadat of the precarious political path along which he is walking and the fateful consequences of any misstep. If war erupts anew, the canal would be quickly blocked. A prolonged deadlock in peace talks could eventually also spell the end of Arab moderation and possibly of Anwar Sadat as well. Balancing this threat, however, is a conclusion that Sadat reached long ago. The 1973 war may have restored Arab pride (even though, after initial successes, the Arab armies took a beating), but in the end peace is necessary to help Egypt's stumbling economy. Unless...