Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point was eloquently voiced in the United Nations by Nationalist China's Representative Liu Chieh, in a retort to Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin. "Weapons," said Liu, "cannot be intrinsically differentiated into good ones and bad ones, but the man who carries the weapons can be easily differentiated. A revolver in the hands of a gangster is not the same thing as a revolver in the top drawrer of a peaceful citizen. Whether a person is a gangster or a peaceful citizen depends on his record. And what a criminal record international Communism has written for itself in recent years...
There was both a tomorrow and a Thursday as, all week long, the nations angrily debated Cuba. The Security Council's first meeting developed into a sparring match in which Russia's vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations...
...Every word crackled as Stevenson sailed into Zorin for crying falsehood at the U.S. charge of a missile buildup in Cuba. "Let me say something to you, Mr. Ambassador." he told Zorin. "we do have the evidence!" He hammered at Soviet evasiveness and demanded an answer: "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium-and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no-don't wait for the translation-yes or no?" The audience, transfixed by Stevenson's untypical aggressiveness and wrath, buzzed excitedly. There was some nervous laughter. Zorin...
...Zorin: "You will have your answer in due course...
...evidence of the Cuban bases. As big blowups of the aerial photos were spread on easels, he explained the technical details, adding that this evidence, and more besides, was available for closer inspection by anyone interested. Most of the time, the Russians stared stonily before them, ignoring the pictures. Zorin made one more try by citing some questionable photographs Stevenson had shown the Council just before the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cried Zorin: "One who has lied once will not be believed a second time. Accordingly, Mr. Stevenson, we shall not look at your photographs...