Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spurning the military option for the time being, the P.R.G. issued its 48-hour ultimatum to Thieu. Around the same time, South Viet Nam's top generals met with Thieu at Independence Palace and bluntly presented him with a message of their own: his resignation was the only way to avoid a disastrous military showdown with the Communists. Thieu accepted the verdict on the spot...
...than a meeting between President Ford and Republican Senators. But last week, when nine members of the Senate's conservative steering committee were ushered into the Oval Office, the mood was solemn. The Senators, led by Idaho's James McClure, were there to deliver, in effect, an ultimatum. Stop your leftward slide, they warned the President, or we will stop supporting...
Michael Feinberg attorney for the union, said that negotiations are presently making little progress since the city is offering only an ultimatum of pay cuts or lay-offs...
...work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models that smashed down the barracks doors as rangers trained in anti-guerrilla warfare streamed into the building. The battle was quickly over. Some of the defenders were subdued inside the building; others ran out onto...
Ford needs that increase and thus might find it difficult to veto the bill. When Treasury Secretary William Simon testified before the Ways and Means Committee, Green denounced the Administration for acting in the tradition of Watergate. "We are being treated in an ultimatum fashion," he complained. "We are beginning this exercise in an atmosphere not of compromise but in one of confrontation." Said new Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, who had tried to persuade Ford to put off the proclamation: "We're extremely disappointed with the President. I wonder if the President might be playing games with...