Word: logjam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loosening Logjam. Can this be South Africa, the land long marred by an ugly policy of apartheid (separateness), which enables 3,800,000 whites to exert total dominance over 15 million black Africans, 2,000,000 Coloreds (half-breeds) and 600,000 Asians? The structure of apartheid, which the late Prime Minister Daniel Malan and his largely Dutch-descended Nationalists began to build in 1948, still towers over everything. No black can stay in a "white" hotel, own land or property in white areas, belong to a trade union, own a home, or vote in a countrywide election. Black political...
...Rogers visited Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, winding up at the end of last week in Israel. There were certain dangers implicit in the tour. Simply by winging about the area in a great blue and white presidential 707, Rogers raised hopes that he would break the diplomatic logjam. If there is no progress?either on the Suez plan or the broader issue of an overall Arab-Israeli settlement?the U.S. can expect some harsh criticism. Rogers only fueled that feeling when he said last week: "There has never been, and may not again be for a long time...
...Nixon tactic. The bill whipped through the House, and on its way picked up provisions that would also have set quotas on shoes and many other products-thus inviting retaliation not only from Japan but from Europe as well. The highly protectionist bill was lost in a Senate logjam at the end of the last session...
...capital punishment. One compelling argument was that it would cost Arkansas an estimated $1,500,000 to attempt to execute all 15 men, considering the many appeals that would have been argued. Because no one has been executed in the U.S. in more than three years, says Amsterdam, "the logjam of those on death row is now so severe that even Governors with a so-called law-and-order attitude may find it in the interest of their states to commute. The funds thus released would buy a bonanza in more effective law enforcement." After Arkansas' innovation, the nation...
Sweating Them. Intensive but apparently unproductive conferences between Senators, presidential aides and lobbyists were under way all week in an effort to break the logjam. The mood was not always one of cooperation. A State Department official called a top-ranking Democratic leadership aide one night to find out if an important measure was about to come up for a vote. The aide, who knew the vote had been put off, refused to take the call. "We're sweating them," he said...