Word: logjammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across-the-board reductions, including major cuts in throw-weight and warheads. Instead, I would accept the most recent Soviet counterproposal for a mutual scale-down to 1,800 launchers, but with an added joint limit of, say, 7,500 warheads. Such a simple interim agreement would break the logjam, be easier to verify, provide the basis for a wider treaty later, and we could have it by next summer...
...questions have not constituted an integral part of the talks thus far. And conventional force imbalance, in some ways, lies at the core of the debate about Euromissles--which may be the most pressing reason for the West to make a concerted effort to try to break the MBFR logjam right...
...Boland, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a fellow Bay Stater, to authorize a closed-door session for the eventual floor debate by the full House. O'Neill happily obliged. The next day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey helped dynamite a six-day legislative logjam holding up a House vote on a nuclear-freeze resolution by persuading O'Neill to engineer a virtually unprecedented change in House debate rules. The resolution passed...
General Barrow drafted his angry letter just as Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, visited Washington for intensive negotiations with Secretary of State George Shultz. The purpose: to break the logjam in talks on withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The U.S. offered a variety of suggestions under which the security of southern Lebanon would be the responsibility of the Lebanese army and perhaps of special Lebanese units trained and equipped by the U.S. Major Saad Haddad's 1,200-man militia, which enjoys close links with the Israelis, could be integrated into this special...
...were deeply troubled, and with good reason. Rarely has a new Congress, and the President from whom it seeks guidance, faced such a menacing array of dangers: gargantuan deficits, ominous unemployment, a threat of Social Security bankruptcy, growing pressures for trade protectionism, uncontrolled illegal immigration. The consequence is a logjam of issues that must be confronted. Neither the White House nor Congress could allow itself the luxury of bickering and indecision much longer...