Word: sukhodrev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance's past trips to Moscow, he noted that his hosts performed a little power ploy: they seated him facing the sun. So when the Soviet delegation-including Gromyko, Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and Veteran Interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev-arrived at the eighth-floor conference room of the U.S. SALT delegation office last Wednesday morning, Vance responded in kind. He guided the Russians to the side of the 25-ft.-long teak table that faced the windows, giving them a good view of the water-skiers cavorting on Lake Geneva, and of the sun. However, the American delegation-Vance, Ambassador Malcolm...
...demanded an apology from Eisenhower, as well as assurances that no more American reconnaissance planes would be permitted to fly over Soviet territory. My interpreter, Comrade [Viktor] Sukhodrev, told me he noticed, while reading the English translation of my statement, that Eisenhower turned to his Secretary of State, Christian Herter, and said, "Well, why not? Why don't we go ahead and make a statement of apology?" Herter said no-and he said it in such a way, with such a grimace on his face, that he left no room for argument on the issue...