Word: ultimatumed
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Unmentioned in the commission's ruling was the fact that the Vatican had in the meantime sent the sisters an unpleasant ultimatum. Speaking for Pope Paul, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Religious ruled that if the progressives want to continue as an approved religious order, they must return to wearing "a recognizable habit." Rome also ordered them to restore the traditional discipline of religious life, including the compulsory daily prayer services that the reforming sisters considered in conflict with their work outside the convent...
...future of RUS was at best sporadic. But in a sense this helped. Throughout the long negotiations, Miss Batts, with the skill of a seasoned diplomat, was very careful not to push the administration not a corner, not to precipitate a "confrontation," not to heat emotions. And when the ultimatum came, it came in a very subtle form: Columbia. The administration did not feel directly challenged. It did not have to worry about saving face...
...Kennedy said, the commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific suggestions. The White House remained officially silent, but aides regarded the scheme as an ultimatum, or blackmail. That, Kennedy said, was an "incredible distortion...
ROBERT Kennedy last week relayed to Lyndon Johnson a confidential set of terms whereby, if they were accepted by the President, the Senator would agree not to seek the Democratic nomination. Kennedy's message was, in effect, an ultimatum: If Johnson would publicly announce that he had decided to reevaluate the U.S. role in Viet Nam, Kennedy would stay out of the race...
...Ultimatum. By the weekend, the fight was clearly lost. Parts of the city were reeking, and Lindsay could do nothing except stand on principle. At the end of the strike's ninth day, Rockefeller announced a settlement that was really an ultimatum to Lindsay. The union agreed to send its men back to work immediately in exchange for the $425 pay raise that Lindsay had earlier rejected. The city would either agree to pay it or the state, by means of a special measure that Rockefeller will request of the legislature this week, would assume temporary control...