Word: ultimatumed
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Impossible Ultimatum...
...Phnom-Penh, Lon Nol and Sirik Matak had been doing their best to make Kosygin's allies uncomfortable. They sent pro forma notes of apology to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong for the damage to their embassies but at the same time handed the Communists an ultimatum: all of their troops must be out within three days...
...leaders made no move to enforce it. In fact, they made a point of announcing that Cambodia would maintain its traditional policy of neutrality and nonalignment. U.S. sources in Saigon reported some increase in the number of enemy troops crossing into South Viet Nam about the time the ultimatum expired, but the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese are still estimated to have close to 40,000 men in Cambodia...
...cover of the first Scanlan's, however, reads more like an ultimatum. Under a photograph of a certified check for $675,000, the editors herald their independence. "We don't even know the names of our stockholders," the boldface type proclaims. "Our deal with the underwriter was that the editors have absolute and dictatorial control of the magazine...
...submitted to the Holy See." The other group, consisting of some 50 traditionalist nuns, was allowed to continue teaching in parochial schools. Simultaneously, however, the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Religious ruled on the case with Pope Paul's blessing. That decision amounted to an ultimatum to the nuns that they could continue as a religious order only if they returned to wearing a "recognizable" religious costume and restored much of the traditional discipline of religious community life...