Word: ultimatums
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...absence of fighting did not necessarily mean that they had gone away. Some were killed or captured, but the organization had begun the struggle with 180,000 well-equipped and highly trained agents, and no one seemed to know where most of them were. The provisional government issued an ultimatum: "If they surrender voluntarily with their weapons, they will be tried and the death penalty will not be applied." If they did not, they would be "tried and condemned" by special tribunals. Few secret policemen accepted the offer. With thousands of them, armed and perhaps defiant, unaccounted for, it remained...
...Washington, a senior Bush administration official said the Vatican Embassy had been planning to order Noriega to leave at noon yesterday had he not surrendered to U.S. authorities. That previously undisclosed ultimatum may have been the final straw that prompted the surrender, the official said...
...response, Jesuit clergy throughout Central America have issued an ultimatum to the Salvadoran government to bring the killers to justice or else face being held responsible for the deaths. So far those ultimatums have passed quietly...
...know that looks like an ultimatum," Havel said...
...German officer entered Warsaw under a flag of truce on Sept. 16 and delivered an ultimatum: surrender in 24 hours or artillery would begin shelling the entire city. The Polish commandant refused to receive the message. German planes dropped leaflets with the same warning. Then the shelling came...