Word: ultimatums
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...several agonizing seconds, the President decides that he cannot take the chance and refuses to order any of NATO'S missiles into action. Meanwhile, France and Britain launch submarine-based missiles targeted on Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. The Soviets detect the oncoming attack, assume Washington has defied their ultimatum and unleash 50 ICBMs against the U.S. Given only 30 minutes warning, the President now has no choice. He pushes the button. World War III starts and ends within the hour. There are no victors...
Another embassy went under siege last week. This time the site was Washington, D.C., and it was Americans, for a change, who were laying the siege. At the Libyan embassy in the nation's capital, four diplomats had rejected a State Department ultimatum to quit the country after they were officially declared "unacceptable...
Arab gunmen seize London embassy and issue an ultimatum...
Thatcher flinches from no one. She has shaken a fist at Leonid Brezhnev, warning him against Soviet expansionism. She has served an ultimatum on her partners on the Continent, protesting the unfair financial burden imposed on Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...
Nixon's ultimatum on the sub base in Cuba had the desired effect without a shot being fired. Ford sent the Marines after the Mayaguez pirates...