Word: deadlocking
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Verge of War. Ford had reason to hope that he might be able to break the diplomatic deadlock on Cyprus. The Greeks seem willing to partition the island permanently, as demanded by Turkey, but insist on recovering much of the land seized by the Turkish invasion force in 1974. The land was once occupied by 200,000 Greek Cypriots, who are now homeless refugees. The dispute has kept both countries on the verge of war for nearly a year...
...Social Democrats and Free Democrats preserved their 105-to-95 seat edge over the opposition Christian Democratic Union. The same day, in elections in the Saarland, where Christian Democrats have ruled since 1947, the voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party would be able to form a state government, but as a result of the election, the Christian Democratic majority of one in Bonn's Bundesrat will probably be wiped...
...play of Bill MacKenzie early in the first quarter helped get the Crimson offense untracked and break a 1-1 deadlock. Six minutes into the period, Bruce Bruckmann swept in from midfield and turned a MacKenzie pass into Harvard's second goal. A scant 15 seconds later. MacKenzie found an opening and whistled a quick score past perplexed MIT netminder Singer...
French Diplomat Louis de Guiringaud worked almost all night to break the deadlock, but failed. The next afternoon U.S. Under Secretary of State Charles W. Robinson flew home alone from Paris, and the remaining delegates to the international energy conference last week quietly ended their meeting...
...well as oil but would provide for "special attention" for the oil issue. As a sweetener, the proposal also offered to consider subjects of interest to the developing countries such as industrialization and the transfer of technology. European and American diplomats fully expected that the offer would break the deadlock, and some of them were making premature announcements about the success of the conference...