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Even those odds looked good after five years of deadlock. As recently as last July, British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home advised his Cabinet colleagues that a settlement would be something close to a miracle. Originally, the Rhodesians broke away over Britain's insistence that they prepare a timetable for Black African enfranchisement, and thus for African majority rule. The terms of the new proposal would comply with that principle, but emphasize a more gradual approach...
Northeastern had the Crimson in a 7-7 deadlock at halftime last fall before Harvard's Rod Foster engineered three touchdown drives that broke the game wide open. Zabilski feels that the squad has matured over the past year and a victory over the Crimson, while not necessarily the Huskies' exclusive goal this season, could point the way to a winning season despite the toughest schedule in Northeastern history...
...tense deadlock continued for three days and into the weekend. While the impasse lasted, reported TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, the 55-acre prison compound in the lush and rolling countryside near Buffalo looked like the playground for some fantasy war game...
...agreement came after nearly two years of deadlock at the 25-nation Geneva Disarmament Conference. In March, Moscow abandoned its earlier position that biological and chemical weapons had to be covered in one treaty. Washington had insisted that chemical weapons be negotiated separately on the grounds that more stringent inspection would be required. There was also the complication that the U.S. was using chemical weapons, notably tear gases and herbicides, in Viet...
...almost total secrecy, President Nixon made contact with "highest-level" Soviet officials last January, among them Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The talks continued until last week, when Nixon-and the Soviets-finally broke silence. Appearing briefly on TV, the President announced a "significant development" in ending the deadlock in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. After 18 months of probing, the U.S. and Russia had reached an agreement on how to proceed toward limiting nuclear weapons. It was, perhaps, the end of the beginning...