Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, he told the British Governor General to resign and to clear out of the tiny Commonwealth island nation within four days. Last week "Deadline Dom," as he has become known in some corners of Malta's diplomatic community, came up with what could be his ultimate ultimatum. Unless Britain agreed to come across with an immediate $11 million increase in the rent that it pays for its Maltese bases, he said, Britain would have to pull all of its 3,500 sailors, soldiers and airmen out of the country by midnight New Year...
Japanese officials got the message-and so Connally felt no need of actually delivering an unpleasant ultimatum. Instead, he chose to play the role of an amiable but powerful friend seeking help. "I came as a gentle spring breeze," he joked. In two days of talks with Japanese leaders, including Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, he proved a rather relentless breeze. He continued to insist that the U.S. will not drop the surcharge until it can see a clear prospect of wiping out its balance of payments deficit. He left it to the Japanese...
...Enemy." Harsh as the terms seemed, the Japanese had little choice. They were "negotiating" under a Nixon ultimatum: agree by Oct. 15 or the White House would impose mandatory quotas under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. U.S. officials further warned that failure to agree to textile quotas could delay the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. With the same strong-arm threat of mandatory quotas, the U.S. forced similar agreements on South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong last week. In return, the U.S. lifted the 10% surcharge on textiles from all countries. Except for steel, goods that...
...also has been eager to teach House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills not to meddle in foreign policy. It was Mills who persuaded the Japanese to start a voluntary restraints program July 1, but his deal did not please Nixon's Southern textile supporters. Nixon's ultimatum to the Japanese infuriated Mills, who insists that the President was proposing to use the Trading with the Enemy Act in a way never intended by Congress...
...World War II. Race-conscious Japanese are also asking why Nixon has done nothing about West German textile shipments to the U.S., which amount to almost as much as Japanese sales and have been rising more rapidly. Nixon added insult to Japanese injury by choosing to deliver his ultimatum through an obscure bureaucrat: Anthony J. Jurich. In Washington, Jurich is remembered only vaguely as a former foreign policy and defense consultant to the Republican Party and some business firms. In Japan he was totally unknown until Sept. 21, when he turned up unannounced outside Tanaka's office...