Word: ultimatums
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...been an off-limits winter retreat enraged the usually imperturbable Queen. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at photographers. That extraordinary crack in her regal facade gave credence to a rumor that surfaced in early February to the effect that Elizabeth had presented her son with an ultimatum to marry Diana by this summer, or not at all. Reportedly she had said: "The idea of this romance going on for another year is intolerable to everyone concerned...
...whether Charlie will finally settle down and wed the fair Lady Diana Spencer, 19. Last week's installment was a Daily Mirror centerfold that reported a Milquetoast proposal from Charles: "If I were to ask you, do you think it would be possible?" and a decidedly less ambiguous ultimatum from the Queen: "Marry her by this summer...
...bargaining would have been ruled out, what was the alternative? James Schlesinger, who held a variety of Cabinet-level posts under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, has a blunt answer: "We should have sent forces into the area and delivered an ultimatum. If the Iranians did not respond, we should have punished them." The counterarguments to that are obvious: the use of force might have resulted in the death of the hostages, it might well have led to a superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union, it might have pushed Iran into the Soviet sphere and-most troublesome...
...develop. Late last week Warsaw proposed a joint union-government commission to study the economic impact of ending Saturday labor. Government Spokesman Jozef Barecki, meanwhile, suggested the government might take up some of Solidarity's current demands-though he insisted authorities would not bow to an "ultimatum" from the workers. In spite of the week's bluster and turbulence, therefore, there still appeared to be some small chance for compromise-a chance neither side could afford to lose. The alternative was a mounting spiral of confrontation that could ultimately tempt the Soviets, who have 55 divisions still poised...
...that it would fold them in March if no buyer could be found. Enter Murdoch, who is reported to have offered upwards of $65 million. Says he: "I have a practical knowledge of, and a good working relationship with, the unions in Fleet Street." Indeed, despite Murdoch's ultimatum to the unions, labor leaders seemed pleased with the impending sale. Said Owen O'Brien, head of one print union: "Mr. Murdoch is tough, but he sticks to his word...