Word: ultimatums
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...fall, Moscow was awash with rumors that the rightists had talked Gorbachev into a crackdown. German Sovietologist Nerlich, who was in Moscow in November, heard a particularly unnerving -- and unconfirmed -- story. During a Politburo meeting on Nov. 16, an army-KGB-conservative bloc supposedly presented Gorbachev with an ultimatum that Nerlich summarizes this way: "Within six weeks he had to get things under control in the republics, Moscow and Leningrad or there would be physical ways of removing him." Janis Jurkans, foreign minister of the Latvian republic, tells a different story of a November ultimatum. He said last week that...
Saddam announced last month that he would release the hostages in installments from Christmas until late March as long as he was not attacked. His acceleration of the schedule was almost certainly intended to pressure Bush to produce something more than an ultimatum when the President meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Washington. Numerous Congressmen last week urged the Administration to use this session and a subsequent meeting in Baghdad between Secretary of State James Baker and Saddam for genuine negotiations with Iraq. "Negotiations is not a bad word," said Senator Paul Simon. "Either you negotiate a diplomatic...
NATION: Iraq gets an ultimatum -- leave Kuwait in six weeks or face the threat...
...renewed application of economic pressure is clearly the option most favored even by nations that support the council ultimatum: neither the Soviet Union nor China are strongly supportive of American intervention. Nor are the American people clamboring for a massive military engagement. Public approval ratings will not drop precipitously if the President announces that rather than risk thousands of American lives to begin a confrontation that may continue indefinitely, he has elected to maintain an increasingly unbreakable international blockade...
Maybe, just maybe, Saddam can be scared out of Kuwait by the threat of a war that would destroy his military machine and/or his life. But that would require something like an ultimatum, backed by a genuine readiness to fight, and Saddam might not believe it even then. So the U.S. has to prepare for war. Anyone with a shred of human feeling can say that only with a suppressed scream of fear and pain. The U.S. confronts a bitter, tragic, even ghastly necessity. But, this time, it is a necessity that there is no honorable way to avoid...