Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners had been given a tactful ultimatum, to this effect: "Change your literature, and make it less salacious, otherwise we may be forced to take action," this would have made sense at least, and a minimum of moral justification would exist for this sort of statement. But a little examination of the situation makes it quite apparent that this was done only in a most sporadic manner, and as a tactic, not as a means to achieve a reasonable...
...thing Balaguer has not been able to do is leave the presidency. Early in his term, he changed the constitution to permit reelection. As it became clear that he planned to take advantage of the change, his opposition polarized. The wondrously wide-gauged group that served the ultimatum includes Vice President Francisco Lora, who quit Balaguer's Reformist Party over the re-election issue; ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin, the rightist soldier who tried unsuccessfully to crush the 1965 revolution, and the P.R.D. (Dominican Revolutionary Party), which started it. The leftist, urban-oriented P.R.D., Balaguer...
...their ultimatum, the seven opposition parties demanded that Balaguer campaign on an equal footing with other candidates, without presidential prerogatives. Unless he did, they threatened, they would refuse to participate in an election that would only be "a sneer to the people." Balaguer replied with lofty disdain. "To quit as presidente," he said, "would be handing them a coup d'état." He challenged his opponents to unite behind one candidate, who could give him a real race for the presidency. If they stay away, said Balaguer, "I will go to the election alone." With the army...
...Phnom-Penh, Lon Nol and Sirik Matak had been doing their best to make Kosygin's allies uncomfortable. They sent pro forma notes of apology to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong for the damage to their embassies but at the same time handed the Communists an ultimatum: all of their troops must be out within three days...
...leaders made no move to enforce it. In fact, they made a point of announcing that Cambodia would maintain its traditional policy of neutrality and nonalignment. U.S. sources in Saigon reported some increase in the number of enemy troops crossing into South Viet Nam about the time the ultimatum expired, but the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese are still estimated to have close to 40,000 men in Cambodia...