Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick to point out that Steel's provocative article contained criticisms of the court that he and other staff members have often made in print. Claiming that the association has denied its own attorney the same due process that it tries to assure for Negroes, Carter sent an ultimatum to the board demanding that Steel be reinstated before noon on Oct. 21. N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, who was away on a vacation cruise during the board vote, told Carter that his action was "inappropriate," but other civil libertarians took a different view. They admitted that the thesis...
...Ultimatum. "My God," said the N.A.A.C.P.'s assistant executive director, John Morsell, after he read the article. "Now they'll be able to say that the N.A.A.C.P. is jumping on the court." Bishop Stephen Spottswood, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, denounced "historical inaccuracies" in the piece without specifying his objections, and one day after the article appeared, the board discharged Steel without summoning either him or Counsel Carter for an explanation...
Rejecting First National's offer, White delivered what Adams termed "an ultimatum." According to Adams, White called on the bank either to accede to his full demands for board representation, buy out the family's holding or face a takeover attempt. White denies that he is trying to gain control of the bank. Instead, he says, the Whites seek representation on the board "to assure continuity of our family interests and to advocate more enlightened and progressive policies...
Quietly Forgetting. Dubček somehow convinced the Russians to quietly forget the demands made in a quasi-ultimatum issued last month after a meeting in Warsaw with their hard-lining allies. At Cierna, he successfully resisted Soviet insistence that he restore censorship and ban non-Communist political organizations. He rebuffed the Russian call for a permanent Soviet garrison in Czechoslovakia to defend the country's borders with West Germany. More important, he got the Russians to pull out at last thousands of troops that had come to Czechoslovakia in June for Warsaw Pact maneuvers and had never gone...
Those qualities saw Czechoslovakia through an extraordinary week of showdown with the Soviet Union. With mounting pressures, including a virtual ultimatum to the Czechoslovak nation, Russia did everything that it could, short of sending tanks to halt and reverse the reform program led by Party Boss Alexander Dubček. At week's end, armed intervention was still a possibility. But under Dubček's shrewd direction, little Czechoslovakia stood up and talked back, reaffirming its commitment to a new form of democracy-cum-socialism and defiantly refusing to retreat. If Czechoslovakia gets away with it, Communism...