Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This chilling statement, attributed to the President of the U.S. in 1980, who is retaliating against Canada's refusal to surrender vast quantities of natural gas to the U.S., is the beginning of a 1973 Canadian bestseller entitled Ultimatum. By the time the novel ends, all is lost; the Governor General of Canada muses sadly, "We fought for our independence as long as possible, but it couldn't last." Even while Canadians were mulling over that fanciful prophecy, its stridently nationalistic author, Toronto Lawyer Richard Rohmer, was producing an equally flamboyant sequel, Exxoneration. This time the U.S. invades...
...Middle East some time in 1975. On a more immediate problem, U.S. officials remain optimistic that the crisis attending the expiration of the U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights can be settled without serious incident. Kissinger has remained in close touch with President Assad and has received no ultimatum from him that he would not renew the mandate...
Also in the air was Sisco, flying in Kissinger's blue and white jet between Athens and Ankara, searching for solutions. He had been dispatched at the beginning of the week merely as a fact finder; when the Turkish ultimatum began to run out, he turned into a mediator, attempting to persuade the Turks to be patient and putting leverage on the Greeks to be generous...
...press conference, Servan-Schreiber said that the Cabinet had never discussed the tests: "The military faced the Cabinet with a fait accompli." That proved to be his undoing. Hours later, Defense Minister Jacques Soufflet, a hard-line Gaullist and a chief proponent of testing, issued an ultimatum: Giscard and Chirac would have to choose between him and Servan-Schreiber. They promptly dismissed Servan-Schreiber, the Premier explaining tersely, "The views he expressed this morning are incompatible with the basic principles of our policy...
Everybody knows that the cost of living went up slightly more than 10 per cent last year and has been going up every month this year and generous Harvard delivered the printers an ultimatum--take 5.5 per cent or we phase...