Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effect (i.e. better human rights for the Chinese), but could actually lead Deng's government to grow more intransigent on human rights, and, in general, more recalcitrant in its dealings with the United States. Failure to renew MFN would rightly be perceived by China as a kind of economic ultimatum; this perception could start a vicious circle of political retaliation. China could decide not only to treat its pro-democracy dissidents more severely, but it could choose not to cooperate on other issues important to U.s. interests, like pressuring the North Koreans to allow the United Nations' nuclear inspections...
...editorial-page outrage at the Administration's failure to act. On Thursday, after three weeks of carnage in Gorazde, one of six so-called "safe areas" for Bosnian Muslims, Clinton called for a substantial expansion of NATO's military role in the war. On Friday NATO issued a new ultimatum: the Serbs must stop firing on the city immediately, and they had until Saturday night to pull back their troops and weapons 1.9 miles and let in U.N. humanitarian teams to succor Gorazde's sick, wounded and starving. If the Serbs refused, NATO planes would bomb and strafe any Serb...
Terrified Muslim residents of the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde, declared a "safe area" by the United Nations last May, huddled under nearly continuous attack by Bosnian Serb forces for the third straight week. At week's end NATO allies issued a strongly worded new ultimatum to Serb gunners, giving them until 2:01 a.m. local time Sunday to withdraw their forces 1.9 miles from the town center and allow U.N. peacekeepers into the besieged city. The threatened big stick: allied bombing on a far greater scale than before...
...deadline passed in 1992, and Dean Jeremy R. Knowles stymied enforcement of the 1990 ultimatum, issuing, postponing and re-postponing a report. Most recently, Harvard settled on its current non-deal with MIT, a weak compromise calculated to sidestep principle in favor of convenience...
...Boston Serbs have not failed to comprehend this lesson. Month after month of "final deadline" came and went, culminating in nothing more than an aptly-named "pinprick bombing". General Cedras, the Haitian strongman, also knows that there's no reason to quake before the Clintonic ultimatum...