Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arab gunmen seize London embassy and issue an ultimatum...
Thatcher flinches from no one. She has shaken a fist at Leonid Brezhnev, warning him against Soviet expansionism. She has served an ultimatum on her partners on the Continent, protesting the unfair financial burden imposed on Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...
Nixon's ultimatum on the sub base in Cuba had the desired effect without a shot being fired. Ford sent the Marines after the Mayaguez pirates...
...package containing specifications for the construction of a hydrogen bomb has just been delivered to the White House, together with a cassette-recorded message from Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. With rising horror, the mansion's current resident, a decent but untested Southerner, listens to the ultimatum on the tape: If the U.S. does not make Israel withdraw from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem within 36 hours, a nuclear device concealed in New York City will be detonated by satellite command...
...Said he: "Regardless of what other nations might do, I would not favor sending an American Olympic team to Moscow while the Soviet invasion troops are in Afghanistan" (see box). He set a Feb. 20 deadline for Soviet withdrawal. In his State of the Union speech, he served the ultimatum again. Meanwhile, White House aides were trying, none too subtly, to win over American Olympic officials. Yes, the aides agreed, the committee has final authority on whether to join the Moscow Games. Yes, in theory the committee was independent of the Government. But, Carter's assistants suggested, the President...