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...lights, his wooden speaking style vastly improved. A Senator since 1980, Mitchell, 54, has been around long enough to have developed respect for tradition but not so long that he is inured to Senate logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- he defeated Johnston for the post in 1985 -- Mitchell has a leg up with the members he helped elect...
After halftime, Harvard turned up the volume on its game radio, while the Redmen changed channels to the easy-listening station. The 3-3 deadlock at the game's midpoint quickly became 4-3,5-3,6-3, etc., in favor of Harvard (6-1 overall...
...continued strength of Palestinian protest provided further evidence that despite the Shamir stall, the time was ripe to press for negotiations. The Administration quickly dispatched Philip Habib, a veteran diplomatic troubleshooter, to the Middle East, and Shultz himself may undertake another shuttle mission in an effort to break the deadlock. U.S. officials were buoyed by Hussein's attempt to persuade other Arab leaders to come to a consensus. "The opportunities ((for peace)) in the Middle East don't last," said Assistant Secretary of State Murphy. "They come and they go, and they're normally missed." Washington hopes that the opportunity...
Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, placing third, sought a good enough showing to keep up some momentum from Super Tuesday. Over and over yesterday, Dukakis hammered at Simon's prediction of a deadlock at the Democratic convention...
...lawyer and veteran of hothouse politics, Texas style, Strauss has a way, as he puts it, of "getting things done and making things happen." To some that means "influence peddling." To others Strauss has become, at 69, Washington's pre-eminent cutter of Gordian knots. And if a deadlock develops at the Democratic Convention this summer, some Washingtonians think Strauss will be the keeper of the keys. In fact, a few of his closest friends -- with aw-shucks encouragement from Strauss -- want him to be the nominee...