Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the alliance council met in Brussels last week to debate the U.S. proposal, tension built quickly. Washington's plan to issue an ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs was rejected. So was the suggestion that the Serbs' headquarters should be a bombing target. The British, French and Canadians, all of whom have troops at risk on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, staunchly opposed any action other than the most limited retaliation for attacks on U.N. forces. Eventually the allies cobbled together a compromise committing the alliance to prepare air strikes but not specifying when or how to undertake them. They left...
...Pictures ever again, the studio said it would have nothing to do with anybody from the Times. "It's like Nixon in the last days of Watergate," says a Columbia employee. As Nixon learned, you can't beat the press: last week, after the deadline for accepting the nutty ultimatum passed, Columbia said, Never mind, we didn't mean it. But they still insist it was the newspaper sniping that kept moviegoers away. "We were damned going in," says Columbia's Sid Ganis...
...mountains aside." And in Now or Never Land, Midnight Oil invites the listener to "dream a South Pacific dream of now or never land/ Suitcase full of good ! ideas/ History that's filled with tears/ Kill nostalgia, xenophobic fears/ It's now or never land." It's an urgent ultimatum from a band with a burning vision...
...Herschell Russell, who ran the department with Dowling, gave Parker an ultimatum in response to a complaint about the student security service, according to a memo obtained by The Crimson. Parker was stripped of his responsibility as a supervisor, and he could choose between going back to being a guard or working as an assistant to Dowling...
...years. In the wake of bloody unrest that killed at least 1,000 people, the U.S., Belgium and France presented a demarche in Kinshasa, demanding that the President abide by an earlier commitment to transfer power to a transitional government headed by Etienne Tshisekedi. But Mobutu rejected the ultimatum, and its authors evidently plan to back it up through new economic pressure rather than by force. Despite an open plea by Tshisekedi for military intervention, about 700 French and Belgian troops sent to evacuate non-Zairians have begun to withdraw...