Word: lequerica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish Delegate Jose Felix de Lequerica sprang shouting to his feet, treating Khrushchev to a taste of the same medicine he had administered to Macmillan. Furiously, Khrushchev babbled on, ignoring both Lequerica and the gaveling of Assembly President Boland, until at last he noticed that his microphone had been turned off and translation of his speech discontinued. To Boland's gentle reminder that it was out of order to make personal attacks on another chief of state, Khrushchev snarled: "What would happen to the U.N. if you do not admit China and if we were to go away from...