Word: ultimatums
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...Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...
...release of 1,214 prisoners Castro had taken in the Bay of Pigs invasion. But Castro upped his demands, insisted on $28 million worth of tractors, and imposed other impossible requirements. The negotiators returned to the U.S., consulted with committee leaders, who last week sent Castro an ultimatum: either accept the committee's original offer-or else...
...world became Von Wiegand's dateline. He went everywhere, usually twice. War was his private preserve. He spotted the first World War in the making, and in July 1914 he made the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia the subject of a 138-word cable to the United Press, then his employer. His reward was a rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon...
...hubbub of conflicting opinions, only one voice was silent. Fidel Castro, who has never been known to shrink from public speech, had not been heard from for two weeks. The frustrated committee finally sent an ultimatum to Havana, gave Castro until midweek to accept its offer or call the whole thing...
...wonders, however, how much farther the Cuban government would lean toward the Communists if we were to send a representative to Cuba to talk directly with Fidel Castro, not to negotiate but rather to deliver an ultimatum: "The Cuban government has 24 hours in which to renounce all connection with the Soviet government and return to a position in keeping with the principles expressed and implied in the Monroe Doctrine." An extra 10,000 Marines on Guantanamo and the Atlantic fleet on "maneuvers" in the Caribbean should leave no doubt that we meant business...