Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Buddhist Center, again turned Saigon into a battleground, hurling barrages of rocks and clubbing out numbered policemen. After the rioters threw seven Viet Cong-type concussion grenades, a paratroop officer emptied his pistol into a mob, killing a 15-year-old boy. The Buddhists issued an ultimatum demanding that the army and police keep hands off the demonstrators, and that Huong be forced down...
...occasionally inquired why the Queen hadn't come down from London. At the end of it all they learned that they had just voted 622 to 0 "to cut the strings that tie us to Britain." No Tea Party. That was enough for Harold Wilson. In a final ultimatum to Smith that was also released to the press to make sure that Rhodesians got the message, he warned: "The decision to grant independence rests entirely with the British government and Parliament and they have a solemn duty to be satisfied that before granting independence, it would be acceptable...
...Buddhist clergy whipped out another. At week's end, for example, they were clamoring for the head of the national police chief, who they said should be fired for having arrested Buddhists during the riots. Saigon's head monk, Thich Tarn Chau, handed the government his umpteenth ultimatum: If all Buddhist grievances were not resolved by Oct. 27, the religious community would call a general strike. What were the grievances? Said Chau, with deliberate vagueness: "Provocations and oppressions." Announced one influential monk, with his usual beatific smile: "Not a single Buddhist is satisfied." Out went the word...
...soon routed the police and drove back the first troop detachments with fire from barricades, rooftops and minarets. Reinforcements were rushed in. Strongman Hafez left his huge marble office in Damascus with its yard-long model of a Russian T-54 tank and flew to the scene. His ultimatum: Unless the rebels surrendered their arms and handed over 19 suspected rebel leaders-mostly from Hama's big landowning families-the army would attack with overwhelming force. Said Hafez: "You have until dawn to decide...
...Ultimatum. A strong adherent of African nonalignment, Nyerere shared the fears of Western leaders that Zanzibar, since its savage coup last January against the old Arab ruling crowd, was sliding into the Communist camp. Early last month, Nyerere sent Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona winging across the 23-mile channel that separates the two countries with an ultimatum: unless Zanzibar halted its leftward slither, Tanganyika would dissociate itself from Zanzibar and withdraw the 300 field policemen who have been on loan there since the coup to keep order...