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...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...
...Chairman Recognizes . . . Before Dean could open his briefcase, Russia's Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, taking advantage of his position as conference chairman for the day, proceeded to deliver a blistering "historical review" of the test-ban talks to date. He chided Britain and the U.S. for "allowing" France to continue nuclear tests, and coolly reneged on Russia's previous agreement to accept a single neutral scientific administrator to head whatever test-ban system might be established. Now, he said, Russia wants a directorate composed of one Communist, one Westerner and one neutral...
...know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing instruments necessary to detect underground atomic blasts. Since Russia did not intend to carry on any underground detection tests, declared Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin, there was no need for such a pool...