Word: ultimatums
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...first time since serious talks began last November, the U.S. in a sense issued a deadline for Tehran's acceptance of its terms. While seeking to avoid any impression of giving an ultimatum, the American negotiators stressed to the Algerian intermediaries that offers made by Carter are good only until Jan. 20. If the mechanisms for a hostage release were not set in motion by Jan. 16 at the latest, the Algerians were told, all bets would be off. Noted a senior U.S. official: "Our best chance is for this to follow the pattern of labor negotiations-after...
...afterglow of its August victory, the union negotiated by ultimatum: either give us what we want or we will strike. But the rank and file became more cautious late last month after the Warsaw local threatened a general strike over a series of political demands, some of which were aimed at the state security apparatus, the bedrock of Communist authority. Said Walesa then: "Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers...
Thomson argued that his ultimatum is necessary because of the papers' unruly and often anarchic unions. In 1978 alone, 74 work stoppages cost the papers $5.6 million. That year Thomson offered eight unions, representing some 4,000 employees of Times Newspapers Ltd., generous boosts in wages and benefits-if they would agree to gradual implementation of laborsaving technology, a new, fast-acting disputes procedure and a guarantee of uninterrupted production. When some unions balked at the compromise, Thomson suspended publication of both papers for eleven months during 1978 and 1979, a shutdown that cost the company some $82 million...
...pressures, in fact, had been considerable. Within days of the original Knesset bill annexing Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia and Iraq announced they would cut all diplomatic and economic ties, including oil shipments, to any country that kept its embassy in Jerusalem. Early last week Kuwait and Libya joined the ultimatum, bluntly giving Holland 30 days to make up its mind. As the recipient of up to a quarter of a million barrels of oil daily from Kuwait alone, the Dutch were in no position to resist...
...private phone number. Citizens of such troubled Middle East nations as Lebanon and Jordan find the show a welcome diversion, a fantasy land where oil-rich Americans have fun making themselves miserable. And in Turkey, the head of the Muslim fundamentalist National Salvation Party presented a 16-page ultimatum that included "the elimination of Dallas from television programs" because it is "degrading and aims at destroying Turkish family life...