Word: deadlocking
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...cumbersome process of proportional voting slowly turned out the results of Cambridge's November 6 election: the conservative Independents captured a 5-4 majority on the city council and battled to a deadlock with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for control of the school committee...
...school committee race ended in a CCA-Independent deadlock. Glenn S. Koocher '71, a moderate who ran without the endorsement of any slate, captured the sixth and final seat on the committee, preventing a victory by either side...
MANY SOUTH VIETNAMESE opponents of the Thieu regime were skeptical of the American rationale for negotiations. They could not reconcile the American desire to prevent Vietnam from falling into the hands of "World Communism" with the United State's insistence on negotiations with the communists to break the battlefield deadlock. Ironically, even Thieu was fond of saying that the Americans lost patience at the most inopportune moments...
Last February Sadat sent his national security adviser, Hafez Ismail, on a peace mission to Washington and other capitals in an effort to break the diplomatic deadlock. That did not work either; hardly had Ismail left Washington when the U.S. announced that it was supplying Israel with 48 more Phantom jets; Sadat concluded that he could count on nothing from Washington...
...Council, which saved them from further military defeat. In November 1967 the Security Council adopted Resolution 242, calling for the establishment of permanent peace, which was to include withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 and the establishment of "secure and recognized" boundaries that were to be agreed on. The deadlock exists because the Egyptians have constantly refused to submit the boundary question to negotiation...