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Died. Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev, 61, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime (1955-60) delegate to the U.N. who never banged a shoe or threw phony fits but achieved dubious fame in 1956 when he pooh-poohed the Hungarian uprising as a conspiracy among "fascist counterrevolutionaries"; after a long illness; in Moscow...
Flying into Moscow's almost empty Sheremetyevo Airport, the beaming, bespectacled Acting Secretary-General solemnly pumped the hands of a grade B reception committee headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Arkady Sobolev. "I am confident," he declared in English, "that my discussions here will contribute materially to my understanding of Soviet attitudes.'' They did indeed...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa, speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...distant power -should attempt to tell us what we are to do, the only thing that will be accomplished will be the achievement of animosity and profound dislike on the part of our people. We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us." Communist Sobolev got the point. Ecuador and Argentina sponsored a joint resolution to refer Roa's complaint to the regional Organization of American States. Instead of vetoing the proposal as he had threatened to do, the Russian abstained...
Though Russia's Arkady Sobolev routinely charged that the U.S., Britain and France were engaged in a "colonialist conspiracy," in the end Russia was forced to vote for the resolution, which passed 8-0 (Britain, France and Nationalist China abstained). Within hours, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the first contingents of a 6,000-man force on their...