Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon after the pictures of the carnage hit television screens, NATO leaders gave the Serbs an ultimatum: remove the artillery that rings Sarajewo or have it removed by NATO warplanes. Already the threat has borne some fruit: Serbs have turned over some heavy weapons to U.N. troops...
This time needs to be different. If the Serbs do not fully comply with the initial ultimatum, the threat must be carried out. The issue is not Western credibility--that has long since been lost--it is the survival of the Bosnian people, both in Sarajevo and in the rest of the country...
...response to Saturday's attack and to the 22-month siege of Sarajevo, NATO issued an ultimatum on Wednesday which called for withdrawal of all heavy artillery from Sarajevo within 10 days. According to President Clinton, NATO is "ready to act," possibly with air strikes, against those who defy the resolve...
Thousands of foreign residents of Algeria are nervously awaiting a Dec. 1 deadline for their departure from the country. And deadline is the appropriate word: an ultimatum issued by Muslim extremists declares that "anyone staying longer is responsible for his own sudden death."As many as 3,000 people have been killed by government forces and Islamic fundamentalists since January 1992, when the government canceled elections because fundamentalist candidates appeared certain...
...autumn of 1998. Hungary's democratic government, outraged at the treatment of 1.8 million ethnic Hungarians in neighboring Romania, threatens to take back the region of Transylvania by force. Bulgaria backs Romania. Farther north, Ukraine's government is shaken by an ultimatum from Moscow: Hand over all nuclear weapons or face a pre-emptive strike. Hungary and Ukraine turn immediately to their NATO allies for support...