Word: gromyko
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...with the mallet was not Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, as some wags suggested. He was a mason and he was making a new exit under orders from the U.N. fire marshal. But when he finished, there would be a new door for Gromyko to walk...
...Voice. All the forms of evasion and obstruction?from dilatory diatribes and procedural pettifoggery to the simple no and the plain walkout?were Andrei Gromyko's special assignments. As the Soviet Union's permanent representative on the Security Council, he was doing his job with maddening competence...
...Gromyko (rhymes with Topeka) was the man who, even more than Harry Truman, had made Americans veto-conscious. There had been ten Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than...
...Council chairman, Poland's Oscar Lange, called for the vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
Russia wanted to order the Dutch to withdraw immediately from all territory seized in the current hostilities. For his proposal Gromyko rallied only one other vote: predictable Poland's. So Gromyko strung along with the milder U.S. view...