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...They are squealing like they're sitting on a sharp nail simply because we now are showing the will that we are not going to let them get to the point of dominance where they can someday issue to the free world an ultimatum of 'Surrender or die.' " Reagan added that some of those "who under the name of pacifism in Western Europe" are opposing the decision "are really carrying the propaganda ball for the Soviet Union...
...taken place and that the possibility of replacing Slaton with a special prosecutor had been discussed. Slaton sidesteps the subject: "If I had attended a meeting in the Governor's mansion, there would not have been any pressure I recognized as such. Nobody ever gave me a threat, ultimatum or deadline...
...expert feels that Iraq's alleged bombmaking capability?in one year, as Israeli intelligence would have it, or ten, as nuclear regulators claim ?falls within the internationally recognized definition of "imminent danger." Legal scholars sympathetic to Israel suggest that the country should have given a public warning or ultimatum to Iraq, or taken other overt diplomatic action before launching the strike. Says Alfred Rubin, international law professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "It makes a difference politically. I would have thought they would have been better off lining up al lies and so forth...
...Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague in 1968, exacerbated an open rift...
...prepared to pick up the bodies," said the chilling voice. "If my demands are not met by the ultimatum, I will shoot the Americans." That threat, spoken in accented English over the Damascus airport radio one day last week, was the worst moment of one of the longest-running hijackings ever, a thirteen-day nightmare for more than 100 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720. Hijacked during a domestic flight, the plane had been forced to fly first to Kabul, Afghanistan, then on to Damascus, Syria...