Word: semyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union's Delegate Semyon K. ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin insisted that the opening agenda be confined to the Soviet proposal that all nations cut their defense budgets by 10% to 15%. While rejecting this as another unenforceable Red propaganda ploy, the U.S. consented to debate it-but only along with such American proposals as a freeze on nuclear missile and warhead production. This Scratchy scratched...
...other offers by U.S. Disarmament Negotiator William C. Foster also drew Soviet fire. Washington's program to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, objected Russia's crusty old Semyon K. ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, is unacceptable because Moscow regards U.S. plans for a multilateral force of Polaris-armed surface ships simply as a device to give West Germany a finger on the nuclear trigger. Predictably, the Communists also refused to accept the Johnson Administration's proposed pact for renunciation of force in territorial conflicts, since it would specifically restrain them from abetting the Berlin dispute and subversive wars...
...yellow fake-Gothic home of a czarist merchant prince, a crowd of 60 reporters and photographers stood watch. A bevy of iron gargoyles glared down at them from atop the gates. At 6:25 p.m. the appearance of a familiar face in the doorway was not reassuring. It was Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, nicknamed because of his long, high-pitched harangues during the endless test ban talks in Geneva; when Scratchy summoned his automobile, there was speculation that he was on his way to consult with Nikita Khrushchev over some hitch...
Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...
...Kennedy's view, but he declared himself "encouraged." suggested that exploratory talks be held and, after they got started, ordered a halt to the current series of U.S. underground tests to improve their chances of success. Last week Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko and Veteran Geneva Negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin were closeted in Washington with U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Chief William C. Foster and British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore...