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...ultimatum worked. Although Busta Rhymes did not perform on the day of Springfest a la Wu Tang Clan 10 years prior, the President’s Office did agree to help, contributing an unprecedented $25,000 to the concert...
...Israel's 14-month-old "national unity" government. The crisis began early in the week when Israeli Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon publicly accused Prime Minister Shimon Peres of "unparalleled cynicism" in his handling of secret Middle East peace negotiations. Two days later Peres struck back. His ultimatum: Sharon would either have to apologize for the verbal assault or face dismissal, a move that would almost certainly dissolve the coalition government and probably force new elections. Sharon testily countered by offering up a brief "apology." Enraged, Peres dismissed the gesture as inadequate and insincere. He demanded that Sharon...
Peres, who had not anticipated an open fight, was surprised when the Cabinet voted 11 to 10 against the Weizman trip, with two ministers abstaining and two absent. Furious, he told a colleague, "One cannot work this way." In effect, Peres gave the Cabinet an ultimatum: if it did not back him on the i'ssue, he would pull his party out of the coalition and try to form a Labor-run government, a threat that has some support among Labor Party members. With the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon almost complete and the state...
...individual criminal responsibility, as commander, for the unlawful killing by Croatian troops of at least 150 Serbs, and the forced expulsion of at least 150,000 others. But to many in Croatia he's a national hero. Damir Grubisa, a columnist for the Novi List daily, fears that Brussels' ultimatum could do more to push Croatia still further away from the E.U. "Extremist nationalism is on the rise. The E.U. decision created a lot of collateral damage here," he says
...even as Rice touted diplomacy, she also gave plenty of hints that her administration prefers the option of regime-change in Iran - a position that effectively undermines the European negotiation position. That's because the basis of the diplomatic effort is not a "do as we say or else" ultimatum, but rather to convince the regime in Tehran that it faces no strategic threat to its survival, and can therefore manage fine without nukes and instead enjoy the fruits of reintegration into the international community. By staying out of the process and indicating its preference for regime-change in Tehran...