Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's problems with the Jewish community grew when Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, issued an ultimatum to Jewish leaders last week. Referring to Jackson, who was appearing with him at a Chicago rally, Farrakhan declared: "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm. Leave this servant of God alone." Founded in 1930, the radical organization boasted a following of 500,000 in the 1960s but has dwindled to fewer than 100,000. Lately it has moderated its earlier antiwhite views...
...ultimatum triggered an outcry from the Labor Party and the unions. Len Murray, general secretary of the powerful Trades Union Congress, declared that Thatcher was "accusing every union member-millions of British men and women-of being disloyal." The protest culminated in a half-day strike last week by thousands of civil servants and public service employees, and a brief stoppage of the national press. Criticism welled up even in the Conservative Party and in pro-Tory newspapers. But by week's end the Prime Minister had won her point and, in the process, inflicted a major defeat...
...meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, the left-wing Sandinista government...
Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...summer of 1982, the Soviets had issued another ultimatum. One of the delegates in Geneva, Vladimir Pavlichenko, warned the Americans that once the U.S. was seen "taking practical steps toward deployment," the U.S.S.R. would "walk out of the talks in indignation." The Soviet Union, moreover, would take military "counter-measures." Kvitsinsky echoed both halves of the threat...