Word: quaison
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...incident seemed undramatic. As the Assembly got ready to vote, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana-a nation on which Khrushchev was counting heavily-rose from his seat. In clipped British accents, he asked Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...