Word: ultimatum
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...awaits NBC?s counter offer, the issue for Geraldo isn?t money; it?s status: Fox is offering him an anchor role on a nightly news program, a temptation which NBC has thus far resisted. Whatever the outcome, Zoglin believes Geraldo?s ultimatum reflects a classic American tale: ?This is a guy who couldn?t get a network job ten years ago, so it?s a pretty dramatic comeback story.? Who said Kato Kaelin is the only one who owes his career...
...students had mixed reactions to the administration's ultimatum to the students...
...home. Naturally, the cause is the defection of the brother-diplomats. TIME's Washington correspondent Doug Waller explains: "The North Koreans put it to the State Department last night, 'Turn over the defectors if you want the talks to continue.' Of course the State Department said no." The ultimatum itself was very much expected. "It's a matter of saving face," says Waller...
...would be the new colossus. "It was supposed to be a bloodless coup," says Carney, "with Dick Armey, Paxon, and (GOP Whip) Tom Delay coming to Newt and telling him: 'we can't control the rank-and-file insurgents any more.' They were going to give him an ultimatum, and Gingrich would have had to step down, without making a scene in front of the Democrats." But after a series of post-midnight meetings late last week, the cabal's resolve apparently disintegrated in a succession squabble and Armey backed down, leaving lots of red-faced conspirators and, according...
LUBUMBASHI, Zaire: Now that Zaire's summit-on-the-sea has ended in an apparent stalemate, Laurent Kabila is back to his preferred form of diplomacy: the ultimatum. From his headquarters in Lubumbashi, Kabila has given Mobutu Sese Seko eight days to yield to the rebel alliance or "be chased from the power." Fiercely denying a U.N. envoy's statement that he had agreed to a cease-fire with the ailing Mobutu, the rebel leader is giving his troops quick marching orders toward the capital. As he attempts to get Mobutu to resign before the soldiers arrive, Bill Richardson began...