Word: deadlocks
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...longer in any real hurry to impose them. Among other things, Washington is waiting for the outcome of Iran's first presidential election, in the hope that it might produce a new leader with enough authority to face down the embassy militants, or otherwise break the deadlock...
March 25: On the 134 ballot the Cambridge City Council breaks its deadlock by electing Alfred Vellucci Mayor. Velucci promises to push for the conversion of Harvard Yard into low-cost condominiums for the working people of Cambridge...
August 30: The Republican Convention finally breaks its deadlock, and nominates Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in the excitement of the moment, suffers a fatal heart attack. Unwilling to deliberate further, and ignoring Constitutional provisions barring his election to a third term, the exhausted Convention selects Richard Nixon as its standard bearer. Not to be outdone by Carter, Nixon chooses the Dalai Lama as his running mate, saying that he hopes having an incarnate Buddha on the ticket will "allow the Republican Party to escape the wheel of death and rebirth...