Word: ultimatum
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Harvard has been accused of backtracking on ROTC. The University issued a two year ultimatum in 1990 saying Harvard would cut all ties to ROTC if discrimination against gays in the military was not addressed by the Department of Defense. But the University has never acted on that ultimatum...
...military ultimatum worked in Sarajevo, why not try it in Tuzla or Mostar or the other Muslim enclaves under siege in Bosnia? As Sarajevans took a tentative step toward peace last week, freed from the terrors of Serbian guns that have rained more than 1.5 million shells on the city in two years, NATO leaders, Russian diplomats and Bill Clinton congratulated themselves on a small but important victory. Buoyed by the success, the President was prodded to apply the same tactics to other parts of the embattled country...
...Western leader, least of all the domestically minded Clinton, really wants to start shooting in Bosnia. NATO's caution underlined how the Sarajevo ultimatum was about saving NATO's credibility as much as saving Bosnian lives. But the new peace offensive also had a Russian impetus. Moscow, proudly proclaiming that its clever diplomacy had made air strikes unnecessary, told NATO it would not countenance any military campaign against its fellow Orthodox Serbs...
With Bosnian Serb forces near Sarajevo obeying the spirit if not the letter of the NATO ultimatum, Sarajevans continued to emerge warily from their mortar- pounded hideouts into a still uneasy peace. But a new phase of sniping has reportedly started, with gunmen using silencers to avoid detection by U.N. peacekeepers...
...international community. A return to the status quo ante would thoroughly reject the acquisition of territory by force. Yet to push the Serbs and Croatians out of the huge portion of Bosnia that they control appears beyond the willpower of the NATO allies, for whom the recent ultimatum was a major step. And any Bosnian attempt to retake all the territory would likely result in an interminable and bloody...