Word: semyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk's suggestion certainly gave the Russians something to bargain about, but all the signs pointed to flat Soviet rejection. On the day after the main conference began, Soviet Delegate Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin met U.S. and British delegates to hear details of President John F. Kennedy's offer to cancel-in exchange for an inspected nuclear test-ban treaty-the U.S.'s own nuclear test series scheduled to begin in the central Pacific in late April. Tsarapkin abruptly rejected the offer...
...very familiar. U.S. Negotiator Arthur Dean stood by the treaty draft of last April. Like all other U.S. proposals, it insisted on an inspection system, and Soviet Delegate Semyon ("Scratchy'') Tsarapkin would have none of it. "We are not much willing to discuss the Western proposals." said Scratchy. "It is now necessary to have quite another approach." Tsarapkin's "approach" was a brief, four-paragraph draft treaty that offered an immediate ban on all nuclear tests-but made no provision for inspection or international control teams. Ar thur Dean dismissed the proposals as "completely, totally, absolutely unsatisfactory...
...slow and the sessions dreary in the Palais' Birch-paneled Room VIII. From the start, the U.S. and Britain demanded a careful system of inspection and control to prevent any cheating after a test ban went into effect. With monotonous regularity, Moscow's delegate, craggy, high-domed Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin said nyet, demanding an immediate test ban and leaving the inspection to be discussed later. The talks got hideously complicated with endless debate on technical details. At one stage, the West, discovering to its dismay that underground tests could be concealed from seismographs by exploding the bombs...
...originally wanted 20 on-site inspections a year in Russia, while the Soviets would tolerate only three. A couple of weeks ago, when the U.S.'s tough, patient Negotiator Arthur Dean offered a new compromise plan providing for twelve inspections annually on Soviet soil. Russian Delegate Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin damned the idea as "unrealistic, impractical and not conducive to agreement...
...test-ban talks, Russia's Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin was candid: "We are never again going to be caught with a neutral as we were at the U.N." And there the Russian horse sat, on its haunches...