Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro issued a joint ultimatum last night demanding that the Harvard Corporation announce today whether it will sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Company...
...power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...ultimatum's first point dealt with guns and indicated how near the sunbathed, lemony island is to what Papadopoulos termed "fratricidal killing and destruction." Makarios puts little trust in the 12,000-man Cyprus national guard, whose 1,300 officers and noncoms have been hand-picked by the Greek general staff. He has also faced another threat since September. Legendary General George Grivas, 74, who in the 1950s directed the battle for independence from Britain and enosis (or union with Greece), reputedly slipped back to the island after enforced residence in Athens. Grivas, who is Makarios' rival...
...aides' work permits, hoping that somehow the subpoena could be served in the confusion. A raiding party of 20 Bahamians-police, immigration agents and others-appeared at the Hughes fastness at 2 a.m. last Tuesday; they got no farther than Hughes' foyer. Stymied, the Bahamians issued an ultimatum that four of Hughes' entourage must leave the country within two hours because they lacked proper work permits...
...Papers" fame drew a crowd of 2,000 to Stanford's Memorial Church, where he defended Franklin's politics and admitted his own "bafflement" at the problem of ending the Viet Nam War. Later, some 200 students marched to President Lyman's office and nailed an ultimatum to his door: "Rehire Bruce by Tuesday noon." With Defense Department recruiters scheduled to visit Palo Alto before the ultimatum runs out. Franklin still had reason to hold to his hopes...