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There were many previous signals that the partisan logjam had loosened. The legislators cleaned up some other long-pending business, passing bills to make voter registration easier and mandating family leaves for workers; earlier measures had been blocked by George Bush vetoes. Congress passed the two big measures Clinton fought hard for: a five-year, $500 billion deficit-reduction plan and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, the lawmakers' work did not draw even one presidential veto -- the first time that has happened since...
...After Penn, Princeton and maybe Cornell, there's sort of a logjam that only the season will be able to separate," Sullivan said...
...cover for their inaction, leaders in London and Dublin blame the impasse on bloody-minded political attitudes in the North. But they also have a point. Politicians in Ulster constantly plead for peace but have shown themselves incapable of making the kind of bold moves that broke the logjam in South Africa and the Middle East. In the North "there are no autonomous political leaders strong enough to carry their followers along the road to compromise," explains Brendan O'Leary, a political scientist at the London School of Economics. "The politicians are very representative of the hard lines in their...
Garrison claims that during a visit to Washington last month, he was told by officials (whom he declines to identify) that the way out of the Haitian logjam involves three steps: discrediting Aristide, removing him from the presidency, then proposing and implementing a new government. Garrison says further that these American officials asserted that a primary U.S. objective was to maintain the integrity of the Haitian military because it is the only stable social structure in the tropical disasterland. While Garrison may know officials who believe this, the U.S. Administration remains officially committed to Aristide's return...
...year, the department experienced severe problems with its radio and telephone systems. In December, the department lost one of its radio channels, forcing the escort service, parking office and security office to use the same channel, according to department employees. Several security guards interviewed in January said the radio logjam might hurt their ability to respond in an emergency...