Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line between diplomacy and hypocrisy fades now as the turmoil in the Congo is aggravated and the political eulogizers smack their lips. Hammarskjold calls for an investigation-too late. Soviet Ambassador Zorin attempts to make Premier Khrushchev the hero of the affair. And American statesmen, witnessing the logical result of their Congo policy, hollowly express shock...
...loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest techniques, which prescribe cuffing and a few kicks in the behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo and let the peace-loving Congolese handle things themselves. Continuing Khrushchev's campaign to destroy Hammarskjold, Zorin said...
...incident seemed undramatic. As the Assembly got ready to vote, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana-a nation on which Khrushchev was counting heavily-rose from his seat. In clipped British accents, he asked Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...
After the Blast. There was a strong probability that Zorin, by his very aggressiveness, had blundered badly. The U.N., in its efforts to save the Congo from total collapse, had indeed moved closer and closer to assuming an unofficial mandate over the country, raising nagging doubts in the minds of some African neighbors and among others as well as to the legal consequences of the U.N.'s authority over the Congo. Fortnight ago, Ghana's President Nkrumah, justifiably suspicious that the U.N. was not working overtime to keep Lumumba in power, threatened to pull Ghanaian forces...
...Before Zorin's blast, the Africans might have felt free to express these doubts publicly and to condemn the consequences of Hammarskjold's Congo program as imprudent and improper. Many Africans would have been happy to have Khrushchev for a friend in their battle against colonialism...