Word: ultimata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...