Word: yakov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore him a son, Yakov. It was a strange kind of domesticity, being married to an agitator...
...blond Yakov Malik did not wait to send the letter. A Soviet second secretary telephoned from Manhattan to Trygve Lie's office and read it in Russian. Thus the Soviet Union ended its boycott of the United Nations Security Council...
Thereafter the Security Council had carried on without Yakov Malik. The Russian's absence was important on June 27, when the Security Council had passed a resolution calling on the U.S. and other United Nations to send troops to Korea...
...knew what the month of Yakov Malik's presidency of the Security Council would bring-willful obstruction, phony peace moves, or what. But the day before the Council was due to meet, he gave notice that first on the order of business would be the question of Red China's admission to the U.N. Malik and his superiors in the Kremlin were picking up just where they had left off 6½ months...
...TIME Correspondent Thomas Dozier and Yakov Malik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, occupied adjoining chairs recently in London's Savoy Hotel barber shop. Part way through their joint shearing Dozier heard Comrade Malik summon a page boy, to whom he gave half a crown and instructions to get him a copy of TIME. When the boy -returned with a copy, Malik took it, looked at the cover and gruffed: "This is not it; this is last week's issue; I've read that one. Don't they have a new TIME up there...