Word: ultimatumed
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...power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...Papers" fame drew a crowd of 2,000 to Stanford's Memorial Church, where he defended Franklin's politics and admitted his own "bafflement" at the problem of ending the Viet Nam War. Later, some 200 students marched to President Lyman's office and nailed an ultimatum to his door: "Rehire Bruce by Tuesday noon." With Defense Department recruiters scheduled to visit Palo Alto before the ultimatum runs out. Franklin still had reason to hold to his hopes...
...example, he told the British Governor General to resign and to clear out of the tiny Commonwealth island nation within four days. Last week "Deadline Dom," as he has become known in some corners of Malta's diplomatic community, came up with what could be his ultimate ultimatum. Unless Britain agreed to come across with an immediate $11 million increase in the rent that it pays for its Maltese bases, he said, Britain would have to pull all of its 3,500 sailors, soldiers and airmen out of the country by midnight New Year...
Japanese officials got the message-and so Connally felt no need of actually delivering an unpleasant ultimatum. Instead, he chose to play the role of an amiable but powerful friend seeking help. "I came as a gentle spring breeze," he joked. In two days of talks with Japanese leaders, including Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, he proved a rather relentless breeze. He continued to insist that the U.S. will not drop the surcharge until it can see a clear prospect of wiping out its balance of payments deficit. He left it to the Japanese...
...World War II. Race-conscious Japanese are also asking why Nixon has done nothing about West German textile shipments to the U.S., which amount to almost as much as Japanese sales and have been rising more rapidly. Nixon added insult to Japanese injury by choosing to deliver his ultimatum through an obscure bureaucrat: Anthony J. Jurich. In Washington, Jurich is remembered only vaguely as a former foreign policy and defense consultant to the Republican Party and some business firms. In Japan he was totally unknown until Sept. 21, when he turned up unannounced outside Tanaka's office...