Word: ultimatums
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Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...evening of Andropov's Oct. 26 ultimatum, Negotiator Kvitsinsky and his wife were attending a dinner party at Nitze's Geneva apartment. As the meal ended, Kvitsinsky privately told Nitze that he had just learned of the ultimatum, and he noted that Andropov had also made a new bargaining offer. The gist of it was that the U.S.S.R. was prepared to reduce the number of SS-20s targeted on Western Europe from 243 to "about 140," down from a previous offer of 162, if NATO would cancel its plans for new missiles altogether. In addition, the Soviets would stop adding...
...summer of 1982, the Soviets had issued another ultimatum. One of the delegates in Geneva, Vladimir Pavlichenko, warned the Americans that once the U.S. was seen "taking practical steps toward deployment," the U.S.S.R. would "walk out of the talks in indignation." The Soviet Union, moreover, would take military "counter-measures." Kvitsinsky echoed both halves of the threat...
...came a surprise. During a 35-minute session, by far the shortest of the two years of talking, Chief Soviet Delegate Kvitsinsky agreed to hold another session at the neobaroque Soviet mission two days later. Then he offered what amounted to a revision of Andropov's Oct. 26 ultimatum. According to Kvitsinsky, the threatened "consequences" of NATO missile deployment would occur with the arrival "on the continent of Europe" of "short-flight-time" systems on the periphery of the Soviet Union. His statement implied that collapse of the talks would occur only after West Germany had acquired its first...
...against the offensive missile sites that the Soviets were installing in Cuba. Working in the extraordinary partnership that he had developed with his brother Bobby, the President imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba and allowed Khrushchev time to consider. When the Soviets sent two somewhat contradictory replies to his ultimatum, one hard and one more accommodating, Kennedy simply ignored the hard message and replied to the softer one. It worked. Khrushchev blinked, and in the memorable denouement, the Soviet ships turned and steamed away from Cuba. Says Harvard Political Scientist Richard Neustadt: "The Administration set a new standard of prudence...