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...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...
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...