Word: ultimatums
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...support of State and other agencies. The Soviet challenge was handled in the West Wing Situation Room of the White House. U.S. strategic forces went to a higher state of readiness, a strong reply to the Soviet ultimatum was sent to Moscow, and the President won out. In the Reagan Administration, I envisaged the State Department providing whatever assistance the President required in the area of crisis management, in support of whatever system he decided he wanted to use. But no pre-eminent role was even sought for the State Department or the Secretary of State...
...former Collinsville Mayor Pat Sharp, a divorced man. Confronted by the three elders who govern the church, Guinn admitted to an affair. Her confession, she says, was to remain confidential. When she refused their demand to repent in front of the entire 110-member congregation, the elders issued an ultimatum: if she did not confess publicly in two weeks they would issue a formal statement to the congregation denouncing her "fornication" and calling on members to "withdraw fellowship" from...
Jackson's problems with the Jewish community grew when Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, issued an ultimatum to Jewish leaders last week. Referring to Jackson, who was appearing with him at a Chicago rally, Farrakhan declared: "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm. Leave this servant of God alone." Founded in 1930, the radical organization boasted a following of 500,000 in the 1960s but has dwindled to fewer than 100,000. Lately it has moderated its earlier antiwhite views...
...ultimatum triggered an outcry from the Labor Party and the unions. Len Murray, general secretary of the powerful Trades Union Congress, declared that Thatcher was "accusing every union member-millions of British men and women-of being disloyal." The protest culminated in a half-day strike last week by thousands of civil servants and public service employees, and a brief stoppage of the national press. Criticism welled up even in the Conservative Party and in pro-Tory newspapers. But by week's end the Prime Minister had won her point and, in the process, inflicted a major defeat...
...meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, the left-wing Sandinista government...