Word: ultimatums
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February 11: Eighteen demonstrators are arrested while protesting the removal of a shanty from the Green. The DCD had moved the other three shanties in response to an ultimatum from the college administration...
...Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe asked rhetorically, "What's merry about all this? We're fighting, it's cold, we aren't home." Yet McAuliffe cheered up his troops, who held on valiantly until the German advance was blunted. The general's one-word reply to a Nazi ultimatum to surrender--"Nuts!"--made history of its own and epitomized the defiant spirit of one of the Army's finest units...
...their 50 comrades in Israel. A Lebanese radio station monitored the chilling sequence of threats by one of the gunmen. At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: "Any delay in the arrival of the ambassadors will be damaging." At 12:32 p.m.: "There is no time to lose, and the first ultimatum set for 4 p.m. has been brought forward to 1 p.m." At 12:58 p.m.: "We are not willing to wait any longer, and the first passenger will be killed at 1 p.m. We will communicate the name and nationality of the passenger." At 1:26 p.m.: "What...
Others agreed that Israel will resist pressure to meet the terrorists' ultimatum...
...President did come under fire from some hawkish supporters who thought he should have issued an ultimatum and backed it up by military action. But those criticisms were balanced by grudging commendations from some of Reagan's most severe critics. For example, New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who rarely finds anything good to say about the Administration, wrote that "Mr. Reagan deserves praise" for his restraint. In a more partisan vein, the College Republican National Committee began selling, for $1 each, red and white buttons with the simple message "427 DAYS." That is the difference between the 444 days...