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...pattern of knocking off one or two Serbian cops a week was enough to infuriate Milosevic and to increase Serb pressure for a reprisal. On Jan. 15 it came: a massacre of 45 ethnic Albanian civilians by Serb security police outside the town of Racak. Furious, Albright engineered an ultimatum that NATO delivered to the Serbs and the Kosovars: sit down and sign a three-year autonomy agreement. To back it up, she would put 28,000 NATO peacekeepers, including 4,000 Americans, on the line. After weeks of talks in France, the Kosovar Albanians signed on March 18. Milosevic...
...Europe is over, well, beef. Unless the European union finally lifts a decade-old policy banning the import of U.S. beef, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky announced, the United States will start imposing heavy-duty tariffs on $900 million in European goods, from chocolates to mopeds. The new ultimatum comes on the heels of a banana war between the two continents, in which the U.S. accuses the Europeans of favoring imports from former colonies. On the beef issue, the E.U. nations says the question is health: They're not convinced that hormone-treated U.S. beef is safe in the long...
...letter, they issued an ultimatum: Allow PSLM students formal access to negotiations, and respond by March...
...ignore. Faced with a resurgent interest in Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments (which mandates gender equality in all academic situations) the administration can no longer distance themselves from the situation, as they did when similar complaints arose in 1979 and 1989. Consequently, Boston College has issued an ultimatum to Daly: teach men and women together, or don't teach...
...basically given the Ivy presidents an ultimatum with that letter," said PSLM member Daniel M. Hennefeld...