Word: ultimatums
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Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler reported Nixon's early-morning call to Mitchell, former attorney general and long-time Nixon friend. Mitchell resigned as campaign director Saturday after receiving an ultimatum from his wife, Martha, to get out of politics or she would leave...
Whitelaw's first test came when leaders of the paramilitary U.D.A., wearing masks to hide their identity, delivered an ultimatum: either he invaded the I.R.A. sanctuaries in Londonderry's barricaded "nogo" areas, or they would turn Belfast into a massive no-go area of their...
...fugitive chief of staff, Sean MacStiofain, called reporters to a rendezvous behind the Londonderry barricades. If Whitelaw would agree within 48 hours to meet the I.R.A. to discuss their peace terms, he said, the I.R.A. would declare a seven-day bombing halt. Bluntly, Whitelaw refused to respond to "an ultimatum from terrorists...
...would be prosecuted on ever-higher levels of mechanized slaughter in the spring of 1972. But Nixon's "peace" plans are only aimed at American voters. In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, his plans call for victory over all efforts for independence. And in Paris all he offers is an ultimatum for the capitulation of those who fight against the totalitarian Thieu regime...
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez...