Word: ultimatums
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...that the Market will have a stronger bargaining position in the upcoming "Kennedy Round" of negotiations with the U.S., through which the Germans hope to be able to increase their industrial exports. The ministers must also thresh out policies covering wheat and other grains, but De Gaulle's ultimatum, it turned out when the fine print was read, applied only to beef, rice and dairy products. Belgium's Spaak introduced a pacifying proposal to put the grain problem off until early next year...
...agree on common international food tariffs for meat, rice, and dairy products by December 31, the EEC might well "disappear." Last week France's agricultural minister Edgar Pisani left a crucial meeting in disgust, admonishing Germany for its failure to bargain and once more repeating de Gaulle's ultimatum. To lend credence to his threat, the French President at about the same time announced a press conference in mid-January, almost exactly one year after the conference at which he vetoed Britain's request to enter the market. The timing is probably far from coincidental...
...Administration gets oriented, and there is similar talk of a "lull" in foreign affairs. Rusk and Johnson ignore the talk, remembering that Kennedy thought he would have six months to get on his feet, but had to cope with Laos, the Bay of Pigs and Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum before his Administration was five months...
...tell him?" Said MacGregor: "We've got the leverage on this thing now and I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we use it." The Republicans quickly came to a decision, and Halleck delivered it to President Kennedy. In effect, it was an ultimatum saying that unless the President backed a bipartisan bill encompassing G.O.P. civil rights proposals, Republicans would do nothing to stop Judiciary Committee approval of the too-tough subcommittee bill...
...Indo-China should be partitioned. When discussions appeared to be getting nowhere, Mendès-France imposed a deadline after which he threatened to resign-a move that would have brought the conference to a grinding halt and continued a war that could not be won. Prodded by this ultimatum, the conference finally agreed on terms that would partition Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The agreement gave the Viet Minh the industrial North, leaving the government of Ngo Dinh Diem with the rice-rich South. New military bases were prohibited, and civilians were permitted to leave one zone...