Word: tsarapkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 in caves, reversed itself...
...hope was short-lived. When Kennedy's new delegate, ruddy, patient Arthur H. Dean, showed up at Geneva with a new set of concessions, Scratchy Tsarapkin bluntly shot them down before Dean had even had a chance to present them formally. Calling a press conference, Tsarapkin damned Kennedy's concessions as "unrealistic, impractical, and not conducive to agreement." Then he announced that Russia would no longer agree to a single neutral administrator to supervise inspections, demanded instead the now famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists...
...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...
...Transmitter. "Interesting," said Tsarapkin. promising to.transmit the proposals to Moscow. Izvestia curtly dismissed the new Western plan as merely a "repetition" of positions "whose unacceptability the Soviet government and its representatives have exposed more than once." The outlook: little hope of any test-ban agreement...