Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...families to make public pleas to Washington and Kuwait to reverse their long-standing refusal to meet Islamic Jihad's demands. At a news conference in Washington, Peggy Say, sister of the kidnaped Anderson, warned that the situation had reached "the crisis point." Said she: "This new demand, this ultimatum, makes me feel we've got to work harder before something very bad happens." The Rev. Jesse Jackson, to whom Islamic Jihad's latest message had also been addressed, joined the families in putting pressure on the Administration. The 1984 presidential candidate, who in December 1983 had gone to Syria...
...troubles began early this month when tin miners walked off their jobs, calling for higher wages. Other workers soon joined the miners, paralyzing much of Bolivia. As the tumult grew, radical labor leaders issued a political ultimatum: that Siles, a moderate leftist, resign in favor of a Socialist government. Siles, whose 2 1/2-year-old administration has been marked by indecision, at first sought to compromise. He reiterated an offer of "coadministration" under which seven labor leaders would have been taken into his 16-member Cabinet, but was turned down. At week's end the strike was still on, but both sides...
After a brief prologue--nasty, brutish, and short--we find ourselves in Stockton. Massachusetts in 1692, "at the height of the Puritan witch craze." Protagonist Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice...
...ugly episode illustrated how terrorism so easily can feed on itself: the hijackers' demand was for the release of 17 fellow terrorists held in Kuwaiti jails. As proof that they were deadly serious, the men killed one American before the answer came; once their ultimatum was rejected, they killed another American. The suspicion still lingers that Iran colluded in the crime or at least did not act swiftly enough...
...polite and personable way, Chairman Edward Riggs Telling, 65, who is 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., can be as tough in his sphere as that big bruiser with the Mandinka haircut. A former colleague recalls that Telling once delivered a friendly but firm ultimatum to the man ager of a money-losing store. "You know your job is on the line," said Telling. "This is September, and I don't see any reason why you can't turn this store into a profit maker by January...