Word: ultimatums
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...ugly episode illustrated how terrorism so easily can feed on itself: the hijackers' demand was for the release of 17 fellow terrorists held in Kuwaiti jails. As proof that they were deadly serious, the men killed one American before the answer came; once their ultimatum was rejected, they killed another American. The suspicion still lingers that Iran colluded in the crime or at least did not act swiftly enough...
...polite and personable way, Chairman Edward Riggs Telling, 65, who is 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., can be as tough in his sphere as that big bruiser with the Mandinka haircut. A former colleague recalls that Telling once delivered a friendly but firm ultimatum to the man ager of a money-losing store. "You know your job is on the line," said Telling. "This is September, and I don't see any reason why you can't turn this store into a profit maker by January...
...contending that Hong Kong Island and Kowloon were theirs in perpetuity. China quickly squelched that claim. Then London demanded a continued British presence in a Chinese-owned Hong Kong after 1997. Peking said no to that too. With little progress being made, the Chinese delivered an ultimatum last fall: if no agreement was concluded by September 1984, they would unilaterally announce the terms of the colony's future. That got Britain's attention: during a visit to Peking last April, Howe acknowledged for the first time that China would enjoy total sovereignty over Hong Kong after...
...surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port by 10 p.m. or else. An hour before the deadline, scared dock strikers relented and waved the vehicles by. Seven hours later, union officials and port operators emerged from a 16-hour bargaining session in London to announce a settlement...
...Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Factories were idled; stores, banks and public offices were closed and shuttered. In Nancy 10,000 marchers took to the streets, in Longwy 15,000, in Metz 20,000. In a dramatic climax to nearly a week of unrest, the entire region was delivering an ultimatum to President François Mitterrand: repeal a draconian restructuring plan, announced two weeks ago, that would eliminate 25,000 of the stricken steel industry's 90,000 jobs...