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President Clinton retreats from yet another ultimatum...
...ultimatum, as the word's etymology suggests, denotes a last chance. "Go to your room or else," is a common maternal ultimatum. "Get out of Kuwait before January 15th or get bombed back to the bronze age" is another ultimatum which fulfilled the dictionary definition quite nicely...
...pale, war-fatigued Sarajevans turned out to cheer when their familiar red streetcars went back into service. Their daily lives had long been framed by falling shells, and the friendly clanging of the trams sounded like a hint of peace, a bit of normality now that a NATO ultimatum had silenced the Serbian siege guns. The streetcars must have carried the same symbolism to Serb soldiers staring down from the hills around the city: last week a sniper fired into one of the jammed cars and wounded a passenger, and 12 people were killed elsewhere in the city...
...will be difficult for anyone to uproot Serb warlords from the areas they now control or to open the way for former Muslim residents to return. The U.S. and its allies are still unwilling to use force, despite the apparent success of their ultimatum to halt the shelling of Sarajevo and their attack on four Serbian aircraft earlier this month. Moscow is pushing the Serbs, but it may not be willing to shove. "I have carrots for everybody," said Russia's Churkin last week. "I don't use sticks." At best, the Bosnians may someday get back half of their...
...Dartmouth, for example, the board of trustees issued an ultimatum similar to Harvard's, Later, the board extended the deadline to this April in order to consider Clinton's new policy...