Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ron Taussig's 45-yd. field goal attempt fell short with seven seconds remaining in the game at the Yale Bowl, Columbia's bid for an upset of the slumping Elis rolled away, and the teams settled in a 3-3 deadlock...
...personal triumph. It was at Carter's suggestion that President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel agreed to come to the U.S. and confer face-to-face, and it was apparently only Carter's tireless mediation that kept the talks from ending in a frustrating deadlock. But it should also be noted that Carter's efforts were not simply a product of his missionary zeal; it is clear that the primary U.S. interest in the Middle East is to establish peace. With the Camp David accords, Carter postponed for some time to come the dilemma of what...
...publicly criticized Sadat, saying that it was "very disappointed" by his action. The Israelis gloated that Sadat's moves showed that it was he and not Begin who was blocking a peace. The Administration disagreed. But it also worried lest the deadlock make Sadat and other Arab moderates vulnerable to radical demands for action; it is even possible that the Egyptian might be toppled or killed. And so Carter decided to gamble on a summit. Explains a top State Department aide: "We had to keep the momentum going to keep the moderates...
...election's speed was surprising, so was the identity of the 263rd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. In the first days after Paul's death, Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice, had been mentioned only as a remote compromise candidate if the conclave reached a deadlock. Now he was in the window, a frail-looking, slight, bespectacled figure in ponifical vestments, lifting his hands gingerly in the papal salute, offering blessing with a brisk gesture of his right hand, nodding smilingly at the excited crowd below...
...Carter last week as he returned to Washington from the glittering pomp of his talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the economic summit in Bonn was the harsh fact that his presidency is in deep trouble. His Oval Office In box was overflowing with problems: mounting inflation, the energy deadlock, the failure of tax reform, the Turkish arms embargo, the chill in relations with the Soviet Union. There was even an embarrassing furor over the discovery that White House Health Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne had written an improper drug prescription. Surveying the jumble of problems, a key presidential adviser remarked...