Word: gromykos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success Russia's Andrei Gromyko angrily insisted that Russia, too, be allowed to send truce officers. That was the last thing U.N. wanted. But how could...
...Andrei Gromyko, who had been holed up on Park Avenue all winter, got a summer place for the last few months of his U.S. stay. Gromyko & family (wife and two children) moved into a 30-room villa on Long Island...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko, looking grimmer than usual in a pair of dark glasses, proposed a different plan-an immediate, unconditional cease-fire order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...Council knew what that meant. During his 26-month tenure as Soviet delegate to the Security Council, Gromyko used the plain, ordinary, unadulterated veto 18 times. But only twice before did he unleash the full, blinding power of the double veto, which stops discussion before it can even get started...
...Abner, Fleegle's evil eye is usually thwarted by the overpowering goodness of Mammy Yokum's counter-whammy. But in all its meetings the Security Council has not been able to find an antidote for the Russian basilisk. This week, true to his promise, Gromyko double-vetoed the motion on Czechoslovakia...