Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What to do? Give all sides an ultimatum: Accept the Vance-Owen partition, or else. Serbs risk aerial bombardment, Muslims risk total abandonment...
British, French and U.S. ambassadors to the U.N. were instructed to consult their Chinese and Russian colleagues on the Security Council about preparing an ultimatum for Saddam. Bush spoke with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger contacted his Chinese counterpart. With their acquiescence, the ultimatum was delivered on Jan. 6, and a day later the allies settled on a limited strike. To keep Saddam guessing, they fueled press speculation that the attack might be massive...
Saddam, with his usual bluster, warned Iraqis that "another great battle" had begun. After another ultimatum from Bush on Friday, the Iraqis promised to allow weapons inspectors to fly to Baghdad, but would not guarantee their safety. The crisis escalated through the weekend when Iraqi radar threatened U.S. jets over the northern no-fly zone and an American F-16 shot down an Iraqi MiG-29. Baghdad seemed intent on contesting control of its skies. Washington said that Saddam would receive no further warning before the U.S. retaliated in force. (See related story on page...
...DEADLINE. AND ANOTHER backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time. This time the Iraqi dictator had moved surface-to-air missiles into position to shoot down allied planes enforcing the no-fly zone established by the U.N. over southern Iraq. That provoked yet another Western ultimatum, this one joining the U.S., Britain, France and Russia. Its essence: get those missiles out by 5:30 p.m. New York time Friday (exactly 48 hours after the ultimatum was put in the hands of Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan), or else. The clear implication...
...quite as strong a stand as Bush). Saddam may also be hoping that some countries may tire of the confrontations and cease supporting the U.S. China went along with previous anti-Iraq moves in the U.N. Security Council, where it has veto power, but this time protested the allied ultimatum. Keeping Saddam caged may not be the worst foreign-policy problem Bush bequeaths to Clinton, but it is not the least, either...