Word: ultimatum
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has issued an ultimatum to the elected Hamas government: Accept a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on Israel returning to its 1967 borders, or face a referendum on the issue. But the fact that Abbas on Tuesday extended the deadline for compliance by another three days suggests that he may be starting to realize what other observers already know - that if Hamas calls his bluff, Abbas could suffer yet another repudiation by Palestinian voters...
...struggled with depression and anorexia since the sixth grade, the rail-thin Cornell junior was meeting regularly with a therapist at the university's counseling center in Ithaca, N.Y. But late last fall, when she told her therapist about her increasingly strong urge to kill herself, Giedinghagen received an ultimatum from the school she loved so much: she had to get better or she would have to leave. So she did what any crafty 20-year-old would do. She tried to carve out a third option--feigning improvement by, as she put it, acting "as normal as I could...
...running a meth lab. The Bakers, who turned out to be users rather than dealers, were charged with endangering the welfare of their son Justin, 12. After the Bakers were able to plea-bargain their way out of jail time, Cindy Finch, an Olmsted County social worker, offered an ultimatum: come up with a life plan or lose Justin permanently...
...first glance, the headlines appear unconnected: The U.S. and its allies again fail to secure agreement on a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to Iran; democracy activists in Belarus take to the streets to denounce the electoral farce that returned the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...
...Moscow and Beijing are blocking efforts by the U.S. and its allies to have the Security Council issue an ultimatum to Iran to cease uranium-enrichment activities within 14 days or face action by the international community. They want to allow more time for negotiations, and send the matter back to the International Atomic Energy Agency rather than have the issue remain in the Security Council, where they believe the sense of "crisis" fosters a confrontational attitude on both sides. Without their support, a Security Council statement can't be adopted...