Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students who decided the fate of the Black man in America. You who determine policies for the poor; who can salvage affirmative action. You who can save America from Black wrath. Farrakhan is leading his troops to the battlefront--and their message is nothing less than a political ultimatum. Blacks, increasingly on the losing side in Washington debates, are fearful of the elimination of the American welfare state which they prize so greatly...
...memo and in person, Johnson presented the administration with an ultimatum: Either give PBH two new staff members, or make the cuts in programming...
...insisted on sifting the evidence to make sure the Bosnian Serbs were indeed the culprits. Then bad weather and a protective shift of British peacekeepers further delayed the nato attacks. As the hours ticked away, it seemed as if the West had once again issued an empty ultimatum...
...nearly three weeks the Serbs avoided testing the nato ultimatum, but meanwhile several developments had altered the situation in the war zone. First, in a stunning five-day blitz, the Croatian army retook Krajina, a breakaway region that for three years had been controlled by rebel Serbs. This offensive dramatically illustrated a new balance of power. "For the first time since 1991 somebody else other than Bosnian Serbs was gaining territory," said a senior State Department official. Second, the U.N. peacekeepers were redeployed to less vulnerable positions. For years the French and the British had objected...
...Serbia in peace negotiations. At week's end the U.S. announced that talks were slated to be held late this week in Geneva between the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Nevertheless, the Bosnian Serbs rejected U.N. demands to end the siege of Sarajevo, leading to a NATO ultimatum to end the choke hold on the city or face renewed air strikes...