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Consciously aiming for stalemate would not be acceptable to Congress.
Since the Irish Republican Army refuses to decommission its weapons before representatives of Sinn Fein, its political wing, are seated in the new Northern Ireland executive, and since the Unionist leader refuses to call the assembly to order before the IRA gives up at least some of its arms, the current stalemate seems fairly intractable.
In an editorial, it urged the United States to back Netanyahu's proposal for a summit with Yasser Arafat, who, it claimed, was now responsible for the stalemate in the peace process.
If the gods are sufficiently against you, if a peculiar, nay, unprecedented combination of events--debacle in Russia, stalemate in Japan, market crash in the United States--comes to pass, even the best strategy comes to grief.
Pundits predicting a stalemate point out that (a) in an off-year Clinton won't be as eager to compromise as he was on welfare in 1996, and (b) House Democrats think a stalemate will work against the GOP during next year's congressional elections ( Capitol Gang's Al Hunt; NewsHour's Mark Shields; Late Edition's Steve Roberts; and This Week's George Stephanopoulos).