Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, to have avoided even harsher Soviet measures, such as mass arrests. To a large degree, they owed that to Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who had arrived in Prague the week before as Moscow's viceroy for its captive land. A skilled diplomat, Kuznetsov outranks Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko. After assessing the situation, he reported to Moscow that things were not going as badly for the Kremlin as Chervonenko had made out. He said that Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda should be given a while longer to make good on the Moscow accord. As the Czechoslovaks...
...Soviet attitude toward West Germany conducive to a relaxation of tensions. In a stormy 90-minute conference, Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin told Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger that Bonn must cease its new Ostpolitik, which aimed at establishing normal diplomatic and trade relations with the East bloc countries. Any West German initiative toward the East bloc would be regarded by Moscow as an aggressive action, said the Russian, and the West Germans would have to bear the consequences. The warning was especially unnerving, since in recent weeks the Soviets have stressed that the Soviet Union, like the other victorious powers in World...
Revisionists and Zionists. In a development ominously similar to the scenario that preceded the invasion, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko hastily flew from Prague to Moscow, where the Soviet Central Committee was in emergency session. Next day, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov flew to Prague for talks with President Ludvik Svoboda, 72, whose sagacious firmness in the crisis has won him the affectionate nickname of "Iron Grandfather...
Last December, Mrs. Carl Rowan, wife of the former ambassador to Finland, was elected to membership at the Indian Spring Country Club near Washington. Soon after she was invited to become a member of her club's "B" tennis team, the Chevy Chase Club, the Columbia Country Club and the Washington Golf and Country Club decided that none of them could any longer put together a "B" team for interclub matches. Though the clubs deny it, the word around Washington is that some of their members do not relish the possibility of having to play on the same court...
...princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...