Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure on Harvard's administration, if applied indiscriminately, can have damaging side effects as well. Bell's ultimatum raises the specter of tokenism in its purest form. Is the hiring of one Black woman proof of a true commitment to faculty diversity? And if Harvard does hire a Black woman to assuage Bell, will she only be known as The Black Woman on The Faculty? Will her role as a scholar be undermined by suspicion about why she was hired...
Within six months, however, a similar protest occurred at Princeton. At the University of Wisconsin, the full faculty met for the first time in 19 years and gave ROTC an ultimatum: admit gays and lesbians, or leave campus by 1993. At MIT, the home base of the Harvard ROTC program, students are demanding that the school issue a similar demand. And no less than 35 U.S. Representatives signed a letter calling on ROTC not to force those students who were kicked out of the program after discovering they were gay to repay their scholarships...
...unclear whether Ortega was merely posturing to placate his more hard- line followers -- or issuing an ultimatum. Chamorro did not wait to find out. She joined Ortega's call for the contras to lay down their weapons. "The causes of civil war in Nicaragua have disappeared," she said. The next day Ortega returned to a more conciliatory tone, this time announcing the renewal of a cease-fire that he had unilaterally suspended last November. At the same time, he called on the U.S. to pay for the prompt demobilization and relocation of the contras, 10,000 of whom remain...
...Early in December demonstrators in Nakhichevan, an autonomous region separated from the rest of the republic by a strip of Armenian territory, formed a human chain along the Iranian border and called for the union of the two parts of Azerbaijan. Two weeks later the Popular Front sent an ultimatum to KGB troops guarding the frontier: if fences and barriers were not removed, the Front would tear them down on Dec. 31. KGB commanders made a few concessions -- some crossing points were opened for those who had business or wished to visit cemeteries in Iran -- but the threatened attacks were...
...absence of fighting did not necessarily mean that they had gone away. Some were killed or captured, but the organization had begun the struggle with 180,000 well-equipped and highly trained agents, and no one seemed to know where most of them were. The provisional government issued an ultimatum: "If they surrender voluntarily with their weapons, they will be tried and the death penalty will not be applied." If they did not, they would be "tried and condemned" by special tribunals. Few secret policemen accepted the offer. With thousands of them, armed and perhaps defiant, unaccounted for, it remained...