Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's latest ultimatum coincided with a regular meeting in Paris of the NATO council, the political arm of the defense community, which De Gaulle has given leave to stay on in France in the hope of emphasizing a fine Gallic distinction: that France is withdrawing from NATO's military structure while remaining a member of the Atlantic Alliance. That is a bit of window dressing the U.S. is little disposed to allow De Gaulle. If the other NATO members will go along, Washington will likely try to move the NATO council out of France as well...
Brains & Nerves. De Gaulle's ultimatum was a blow at the heart of the alliance. For France is not only the geographic center of the NATO defense area, stretching from Great Britain to Turkey, it also houses the brains and nerves of NATO's vast, interlocking command system (see map). Among the men and facilities that will have to be transplanted beyond French frontiers if De Gaulle follows through on his ultimatum to the last detail...
...Congo policy in the first place, clamored for a cease-fire on any terms. They also questioned on what authority the attack on Elisabethville had been ordered. In response, O'Brien indicated that Secretary-General Hammarskjold had authorized the attack after Tshombe had ignored a U.N. ultimatum demanding that he oust all foreign mercenaries from Katanga. But it was impossible to verify what Hammarskjold actually had or hadn't authorized since a plane carrying him to a conference with Tshombe had crashed in the meantime, and the Secretary-General was dead...
...torture by either killing it quickly or resurrecting it in a new healthy body. On December 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings on the New Haven's 256-page application to discontinue all passenger service. The application is a last-ditch stand, and may prove to be an ultimatum that could get the railroad the help that it has been demanding for the last four years...
...ninth and final ICC hearing is scheduled for January 31 in Washington (there is one in Boston on January 17). Chances are considered fair to good that the New Haven's application will be approved, providing the railroad with an ultimatum that the states can no longer afford to ignore. Relieved of any legal obligation to provide an unprofitable service, the New Haven will be unmistakeably recognizable for what railroads in this country--although not in Europe--still are, a private enterprise. It would be surprising if bailing out the New Haven did not become a top priority issue...