Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Year ago the Nationalists met in Calcutta and resolved this ultimatum: If the British...
...inclination in Washington has been to downplay both halves of the Soviet ultimatum. According to this attitude, the U.S.S.R.'s military countermeasures will turn out to be more political bark than military bite. As for a Soviet walkout in Geneva, that would be crazy, say many American officials. The Soviets would stomp out of the talks looking like the spoilers. That would put the lie to their advertisements for themselves as infinitely patient good guys in the eyes of Europe...
...policy was an attempt to come to grips with this problem. But Carter's rights framework, laudable as it was from a moral perspective, may have shunted political concerns too far aside to be practicable. with drawing all aid from the Salvadoran government--i.e. acting on the human rights ultimatum--would likely lead to the collapse of the present government. Then either the extreme Left would take over or outright anarchy would ensure: neither scenario is in the interests of the Salvadorans, or the United States...
...Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba, maintains his residence. The meeting had an urgent mission: agreement on a pricing pact and a set of production quotas that would keep the cost of oil from tumbling uncontrollably. Over the previous weekend Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors had issued an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC: unless a deal was struck within seven days, the gulf nations said, they would slash their oil prices to as low as $27 per bbl., $7 below the official OPEC price of $34. Such a move could trigger an all-out price war that would...
...committee's eight-page letter gave Weinberger a virtual ultimatum: he must order an F/A-18 financial review and report back on whether the Navy has acted lawfully, or it will refuse to approve more spending for the plane. Weinberger, in a three-paragraph reply, promised to do both. Democrats on the Hill are searching for big-ticket items to knock out of the defense budget. The buzzing about the Hornet may be music to their ears...