Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of direct U.S. intervention, Stevenson made only the most technical denial: "No offensive has been launched from Florida or from any other part of the United States." It was a point that Russia's Valerian Zorin, no great brain but adept at probing a sensitive spot, jabbed away at all week long. As it turned out, the point grew increasingly sensitive with the passage of time...
...series of get-acquainted luncheons in his opulent Waldorf Towers apartment. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had hosted every delegation with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations except for the Soviets, and that was only because his Russian counterpart. Valerian Zorin, had stood him up last month when Patrice Lumumba's death was announced. Last week Zorin finally kept the date, and the atmosphere was reportedly ''very cordial...
Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin seized the chance to press for his blunt resolution calling for Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's ouster, and for the U.N.'s exit from the Congo within a month. He was defeated before he started, but plowed doggedly on. Brandishing a magazine showing Hammarskjold and Katanga's Belgium-backed Moise Tshombe together in the same photo (taken as Hammarskjold led the first U.N. troops into Katanga last August), Zorin suggested that it proved that Dag was "allied" with "a Belgian puppet"; this brought weary grins from everyone at the horseshoe table, including Hammarskjold...
...Africa, the Zorin attack alarmed governments who look to the U.N. for protection and as a forum where they can make their voices heard. But even here, the Russians had scored by their own reckoning. For the Communists look over the heads of governments to Africa's impassioned students and wild-eyed nationalists. If sufficiently encouraged in their anticolonial hatred for white men, they can be depended on, in the Communists' view, ultimately to rule the future of Africa. The 10,000 students who rioted last week in Nigeria were a warning of how effective this tactic could...
...behind him on the cover: Platon Morozov, Zorin's No. 2 man at the U.N. (with earphone), Alexei Nesterenko, the U.N. Soviet mission's political counselor...