Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under both Eisenhower and Kennedy, Thompson's toughest, longest job has been protecting, without a misstep, the allied position in beleaguered West Berlin. Ever since November 1958, when Khrushchev issued his first ultimatum ordering Western troops to quit the city. Thompson spent endless hours explaining that-despite Kennedy's willingness to offer some concessions-the West would not be bargained or bullied out of Berlin...
...frantic sell-off on the London Stock Exchange was even bigger (6.4%) than the famous one in 1938, just before Hitler delivered his ultimatum to Czechoslovakia (5.4%). From amidst the rubble, Stock Exchange Chairman Lord Ritchie advised small investors "to put their heads down and let the wind blow over them...
...broadcast ultimatum, Fouchet tried to shock Europeans to their senses. "What do you think would happen to you the day the Moslem community is no longer able to control its despair or its anger, the day it sweeps down on the European community? When you look each other in the eye, at home, amongst your families, do you not ask yourself what the world, what France is thinking? I demand that you disavow the murderers of children." The S.A.O. answered by machine-gunning seven more Algiers Moslems, and by sending a booby-trapped gasoline truck hurtling down onto the Casbah...
When preparations were complete, Zahreddin broadcast an ultimatum ordering "all officers and soldiers of the Aleppo garrison" to be confined to barracks. A Russian-made jet of the Syrian air force dropped two bombs in a futile attempt to knock out the Aleppo transmitter. The announcer hysterically broadcast news of the attack and begged Nasser to send Egyptian paratroops to save the situation. But Cairo replied only that Nasser "heard with grief-stricken heart the report of air operations by the Syrian air force against the people and army of the northern region." Damascus radio blasted the Aleppo officers...
...designed to give amnesty to Per&243;nistas for all but common crimes, then returned their control of Argentina's powerful labor unions. The reaction of the bitterly anti-Per&243;n military men was instantaneous. What followed became the classic pattern of the Frondizi administration: a military ultimatum, followed by a Frondizi maneuver, a brief truce, and then more military complaints...