Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will recur after the summit, I don't know." Yet, in Herter's year, the U.S. has strengthened its position in the Middle East, in Communist-menaced Southeast Asia, in Japan, in Latin America, and has even lifted (by dint of presidential diplomacy) Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum...
...advertising losses had forced the paper to cut back from an average of 55 to 28 pages a day. Driven to desperation, Publisher Galinsoga backed down, denied that he had ever uttered any sort of insult to Catalonia. But in its continuing boycott, proud Catalonia posed an ultimatum: either Galinsoga would go or else Spain's top newspaper would have to struggle for survival...
...only by a little, maybe only a few feet." At first his second term seemed only to bring more cold war crises. The President sent U.S. troops to Lebanon, again deployed U.S. warships in Formosa Strait. Then, on Nov. 27, 1958, Russia's Khrushchev handed the Western allies an ultimatum to get out of Berlin...
From their conversations came only one tangible result: Khrushchev agreed to lift his Berlin ultimatum. But more important was the personal, closeup view that Ike got of Khrushchev...