Word: ultimatums
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...Rodino set up a special staff to study the question of impeachment, O'Neill kept badgering him regularly: "How do you think it's going? Are we moving?" When Rodino delayed too long in naming a special counsel, O'Neill delivered an ultimatum: "You've got to have your man before we go home for Christmas." In December Rodino named John Doar, who had O'Neill's approval because he was a Republican and thus could not be attacked for partisanship...
...just that-a means of keeping the Japanese posted on the outcome of the Peking talks, but the Middle East crisis gave the visit a more urgent tone. More than 80% of Japan's oil has been coming from the Middle East. While reports of a formal Arab "ultimatum" were denied by government sources in Tokyo, TIME learned that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested to the Japanese ambassador that in order to be classed as a "friendly" nation, Japan should break relations with Israel. Tanaka told Kissinger that to get supplies, Japan would have to abandon...
...that all federal contractors open their doors to more women and minority group members or risk loss of federal funds. But while HEW has repeatedly questioned the apparatus by which universities, including Harvard, will implement their affirmative action programs, the department itself has yet to carry through on its ultimatum. Defense research is more important to the Nixon administration than its own morality or the morality of the institutions it employs...
CAPETOWN, South Africa--The American Sixth Fleet patrolled menacingly offshore today, while its commanders awaited instructions from Washington. Only 24 hours remain before the Revolutionary Council's ultimatum to the South African government expires...
...ultimatum, issued last week, calls on South Africa to enfranchise blacks, abolish apartheid, and hold a new constitutional convention. There has been no official response, but rebellions have reportedly broken out in several places and the country is in turmoil. U.S. Marines are ready to land. One of them, Rodney Jones of Buffalo, said today, "I'm ready. South Africa's kind of racism has no place in a civilized world, and we are going...