Word: lavrentiev
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they paid is proof that there is good will." ¶Looking pale and wan, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev attended a diplomatic reception in Teheran, his first public appearance since he disappeared three weeks ago amid reports that he had shot or poisoned himself in despair over Communism's harsh setback in Iran (TIME, Sept. 14). Lavrentiev, said embassy spokesmen, had simply been...
...officer denied making the call, denied the suicide story as well, hung up. In spite of the denials, the report quickly spread all over Teheran last week, for if there was a diplomat with cause to be upset by life's inscrutable tricks, it was Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked...
Repeatedly, Teheran diplomats phoned the Russian embassy to check the rumor of Lavrentiev's attempt at suicide. First they got only the brushoff, then the embassy was a little more talkative: the ambassador was very ill and could not be disturbed. "He has suffered a heart attack, like any other man," explained an embassy spokesman. But the curious were not at all satisfied. Teheran newspapers put their untrammeled imaginations to bear, with varied results: MVD men had shot the ambassador when he tried to flee to the U.S. embassy; the ambassador had shot himself; the ambassador had tried...
...foreign newspapermen, the Shah, after patting the bureaucrats' heads, tried to disengage himself. He looked tired, and as he made his way down the reception line past teary-eyed officials, his own eyes filled too. He clasped Ambassador Henderson's hand heartily; he gave Soviet Envoy Anatoly Lavrentiev a perfunctory handclasp. Then he was off to the palace in a limousine, under hastily erected triumphal arches and past cheering crowds...