Word: ultimatums
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President Bok called the ultimatum "completely unnecessary." "The Corporation will announce its decision either Tuesday or Wednesday," he said last night...
...African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro issued a joint ultimatum last night demanding that the Harvard Corporation announce today whether it will sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Company...
...page ultimatum read in part: "It has been seven months since President Bok was presented with the demands for divestiture, two months since Afro endorsed the demands, and two weeks since the Corporation meeting. Each day Gulf's Cabinda operation brings revenue for the Portuguese war effort. Each day means more lives of Africans lost in the war for liberation...
...ultimatum's first point dealt with guns and indicated how near the sunbathed, lemony island is to what Papadopoulos termed "fratricidal killing and destruction." Makarios puts little trust in the 12,000-man Cyprus national guard, whose 1,300 officers and noncoms have been hand-picked by the Greek general staff. He has also faced another threat since September. Legendary General George Grivas, 74, who in the 1950s directed the battle for independence from Britain and enosis (or union with Greece), reputedly slipped back to the island after enforced residence in Athens. Grivas, who is Makarios' rival...
...aides' work permits, hoping that somehow the subpoena could be served in the confusion. A raiding party of 20 Bahamians-police, immigration agents and others-appeared at the Hughes fastness at 2 a.m. last Tuesday; they got no farther than Hughes' foyer. Stymied, the Bahamians issued an ultimatum that four of Hughes' entourage must leave the country within two hours because they lacked proper work permits...