Word: georgis
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...sofa, an embroidered cushion between them and their aides huddled around. Shultz quietly advised that negotiations at the staff level were not going well. Then Shultz, so seemingly bland in his public utterances, took a bold step. He dramatically pointed across the room to a Soviet official, Georgi Korniyenko, and declared, "You, Mr. Korniyenko, are responsible for this. Mr. General Secretary, this man is not doing what you want. He is not working in your best interests...
...Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home to the non-U.S. journalists. The 55-man operation included a dozen high-powered experts fluent in English and led by well-known America Watcher Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada. Besides providing twice-daily briefings that began several days before the two leaders arrived in Geneva, Arbatov & Co. mingled with journalists and appeared on the three U.S. television networks and CNN to offer official wisdom on topics...
...Geneva summit was lively and thorough by past standards, the story was still carefully tailored for domestic audiences. Soviet TV's news team was led by Valentin Zorin, 61, the gray-haired, avuncular dean of Moscow's on-air political analysts. Zorin's background reports came principally from Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's top-ranking Americanologist. Like other Soviet journalists, Zorin adopted a tone of cautious optimism once the summit was under way, telling his audience of 150 million on the 9 o'clock nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage to take even just a first step...
...President's vaunted Strategic Defense Initiative. That militant position was hardly a new one for Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that the U.S. plans to abrogate the only fully ratified arms treaty between the superpowers. Sure enough, the Soviets' Georgi Arbatov promptly stated that the letter proved Reagan was "not serious" about the summit. The flap soon subsided, however, and its eventual role at the summit was minimal...
...physics concentration is recommending a large number of students—86 percent of its seniors—for honors, according to Howard Georgi ’68, director of undergraduate studies in physics...