Word: inchaustegui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was both a tomorrow and a Thursday as, all week long, the nations angrily debated Cuba. The Security Council's first meeting developed into a sparring match in which Russia's vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations...
...Russia's "conquering armies are still in Poland, East Germany, Hungary and other countries-16 years after the last war." He contrasted the Soviet Union's "self-righteous rhetoric" with its grisly record "of cynical repression of freedom and self-determination." Predictably, Cuba's Mario Garcia Inchaustegui vehemently seconded Russia's call for an end of all foreign bases, even those guaranteed by treaty, as is the U.S. base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. Adlai Stevenson rose once more, found the Cuban statement to be "an extraordinary new doctrine of international law, or rather, international...
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