Word: ultimatums
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...Serbs had already been shelling the Bosnian capital from inside the zone, breaking the February 1994 agreement. Last week they made the nose thumbing official by brassily pulling three artillery pieces and a mortar out of a U.N. impoundment depot, firing them at Sarajevo and ignoring a U.N.-NATO ultimatum to hand them back. That was too much even for Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time he approved one. It came Thursday and was more than the usual pinprick: a squadron...
...mile outside the Bosnian Serb mountaintop headquarters at Pale. The Bosnian Serbs also bombarded five out of six U.N.- declared "safe haven" cities in Bosnia, killing 71 people in the northern town of Tuzla alone. The air strikes, the first since November, were ordered after Bosnian Serbs ignored an ultimatum to return heavy weapons seized from U.N. collection points. Said Defense Secretary William Perry of the tougher NATO military action: "In time it will achieve the expected result, but I don't expect it to occur immediately...
...weapons toU.N. control. There were no casualties reported in the attack, and it did not appear to discourage the Serbs. Minutes after the ammunition dump went up in flames, Serb soldiers sent several mortar rounds into Sarajevo. After the raid, U.N. officials presented Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with another ultimatum: stop the shelling and give the weapons back by tomorrow, or face another bombing. Karadzic did not immediately respond...
That's little solace for Farmer, who until last month was employed as a security specialist at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. In March, when his bosses learned that he intended to unleash SATAN into the world, they gave him an ultimatum: publish if you want to perish. He published. Now he's on the market, looking...
Humanities and social science teaching assistants yesterday delivered the Yale University administration an ultimatum: grant them union representation or they will walk...