Word: batiment
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Even the setting was unsettling. Because the United Nations trade conference had pre-empted the grandiose Palais des Nations, the GATT delegates had to forgo the peacock lawns and lakeside vistas to meet amid six scraggly potted palms in the salon of the Batiment Electoral, where the Swiss hold cantonal elections. On a floor below, the brass band of the Geneva Landwehr could be heard holding its rehearsals. The remarks of Chief U.S. Negotiator Christian A. Herter were punctuated by the faint oom-pah-pahs of the Landwehr as he warned: "The longer we procrastinate in setting the formulas...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko set the style, soon became a topic of conversation among newsmen surpassing both the friskings by Swiss police and the frisky Swiss barmaids at press headquarters in Geneva's "Batiment Electoral." Landing in Geneva, Gromyko made a pithy statement specifically prepared to make pithy headlines. After that, in his dealings with the press, Gromyko set out to prove himself an amiable man of peace, erase the image of the sullen spokesman who so often barked nyet at the U.N. Security Council. While the Western foreign ministers tended to duck out of range, Gromyko smilingly...
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