Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Case replied to the editor's ultimatum yesterday by revealing that he intends to relinquish his position as publisher in favor of a board of publishers composed of students, faculty, administrators, and alumni, to achieve a publication reflecting the views of "Boston University as a whole...
...lack of enough petition signatures. Belaúnde called a protest demonstration in downtown Lima, raised high a Peruvian flag, and shouting "Adelante!", led a mob of 1,000 toward the President's palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost to Manuel Prado, an aristocrat who had made a deal with APRA: legality and an end to repression in return for APRA...
Britain faces several other imminent problems. Next week it will meet with its European Free Trade Association partners at EFTA's conference of ministers in Geneva; the partners have been complaining loudly against the 15% surcharge, may issue an ultimatum that Britain either drop it or get out of EFTA. Though British financial leaders had been hoping for a 5% trim in the surcharge this month, they are now talking about a 2½% reduction to take effect in April...
...Case rejects this ultimatum, the Congress says that it will allocate $300 for the publication of an alternate issue of the B.U. News...
Monks' Ultimatum. Following two days of meetings, yellow-robed monks handed out mimeographed copies of what amounted to a declaration of war against Premier Tran Van Huong's six-week-old government, which suppressed Buddhist riots three weeks ago. Drafted by the Buddhists' top two political bosses, Thich Tri Quang and Thich Tarn Chau, the letter branded Huong's regime "execrable" threatened a nation wide campaign of "nonviolent noncooperation" unless "this government of betrayal" is dissolved...