Word: ultimatums
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...Enemy." Harsh as the terms seemed, the Japanese had little choice. They were "negotiating" under a Nixon ultimatum: agree by Oct. 15 or the White House would impose mandatory quotas under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. U.S. officials further warned that failure to agree to textile quotas could delay the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. With the same strong-arm threat of mandatory quotas, the U.S. forced similar agreements on South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong last week. In return, the U.S. lifted the 10% surcharge on textiles from all countries. Except for steel, goods that...
...also has been eager to teach House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills not to meddle in foreign policy. It was Mills who persuaded the Japanese to start a voluntary restraints program July 1, but his deal did not please Nixon's Southern textile supporters. Nixon's ultimatum to the Japanese infuriated Mills, who insists that the President was proposing to use the Trading with the Enemy Act in a way never intended by Congress...
...whether Rockefeller's arrival on the scene would have saved lives; yet it is hard to see how it could have made matters worse. A confident and able persuader, Rockefeller might have eased tensions by dramatizing the state's concern; he might even have given weight to Oswald's ultimatum. Theodore Kheel, New York's veteran labor negotiator, contends that the convicts found Oswald's quick acceptance of 28 prisoner demands "too good to be believed"; they feared that his promises were only a ploy to free the hostages and would not be kept. "It would have been a mistake...
Initially, Oswald intended to discuss the men's grievances only after the hostages were released?a cardinal rule of most prison officials. He did demand their release, but he also listened to the inmate ultimatum and found it unalarming. The prisoners wanted "religious freedom" (for Black Muslim worship), permission for political meetings "without intimidation," the end of mail censorship, the right to communicate with anyone they wished and regular grievance procedures. Only one demand, added to the list later, sounded bizarre: "Speedy and safe transportation out of confinement to a nonimperialist country...
...ones who leave first, in fact, are often the most competent members, who still expect special recognition for their talents. "Competent people are hard to get along with," says Richard Stutsman, one of Twin Oaks' trained psychologists. "They tend to make demands, not requests. We cannot afford to reinforce ultimatum behavior, although we recognize our need for their competence. So often we have given in to them on little things, and then when a big demand arises we have to deny them." When they leave, the community not only loses their skills but also sacrifices a potential rise...