Word: ultimatums
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...resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized the U.N. and other channels of communication, issued no ultimatum and authorized no acts of punishment or retaliation...
...Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...
Spurning the military option for the time being, the P.R.G. issued its 48-hour ultimatum to Thieu. Around the same time, South Viet Nam's top generals met with Thieu at Independence Palace and bluntly presented him with a message of their own: his resignation was the only way to avoid a disastrous military showdown with the Communists. Thieu accepted the verdict on the spot...
...than a meeting between President Ford and Republican Senators. But last week, when nine members of the Senate's conservative steering committee were ushered into the Oval Office, the mood was solemn. The Senators, led by Idaho's James McClure, were there to deliver, in effect, an ultimatum. Stop your leftward slide, they warned the President, or we will stop supporting...
Michael Feinberg attorney for the union, said that negotiations are presently making little progress since the city is offering only an ultimatum of pay cuts or lay-offs...