Word: beseda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets' First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only a blank legal pad, Gromyko asked jokingly whether that meant the Americans had neglected to bring any new proposals. Of course, Gromyko knew better. Vance soon offered a detailed presentation of the U.S. position...
When it was over, Convicts Carrasco and Dominguez lay dead. Father O'Brien, who had voluntarily joined the group, was wounded, but apparently not seriously. The two women, Elizabeth Beseda, 57, a prison school teacher, and Judy Standley, 43, a librarian, were killed. The two women had volunteered to accompany the convicts as hostages in the armored car-a sacrificial offer that had placed them in that fatal inner circle beside the desperate...
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