Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called frontline states (Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania and Botswana), whose support is crucial to the guerrillas, were given much of the credit for breaking the deadlock. Anxious for an end to the costly struggle, their leaders had been instrumental ever since they helped bring the Front to the conference table last September. With strong diplomatic encouragement from Whitehall and Washington, the frontline Presidents had sent a senior representative to London to tell the guerrilla leaders-particularly the recalcitrant Mugabe-that they must settle with the British. That arm twisting, and the additional assembly points, did the trick...
...there has evolved a similarly firm nationwide determination-that the hostages must be freed. Some Administration officials see not just deadlock and frustration in the events of the past weeks, but an opportunity too. They interpret the national mood as marking the end of the Viet Nam decade of doubt about America and its role. They forecast a substantial increase in the U.S. armed forces and a willingness to make it plain that these forces would be used to defend America's just interests...
...pass the ERA. Muhammad Ali would have gone to jail as a draft resister had a clerk not persuaded Harlan to read some Black Muslim literature. Convinced that Ali's religious scruples made him a sincere conscientious objector, Harlan switched his vote and others followed: a 4-4 deadlock suddenly became an 8-0 vote to keep Ali free on a technicality...
...after repeatedly frustrating Wildcats forays in the first 20 minutes, Lau had no chance when UNH broke the deadlock and went out in front at 2:14 of the second session...
There was also considerable controversy over the commission's 6-to-6 deadlock on whether to propose a temporary ban on the construction of any new nuclear power plants. Complained Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts: "After offering a truly blistering attack on the U.S. nuclear industry, the Kemeny commission simply failed to have the courage of its convictions...