Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva, at the Third World-dominated U.N. Commission on Human Rights, U.S. Delegate Allard K. Lowenstein proposed that the organization request information from the Soviets on the arrest and detention of dissidents. In response, the Russian delegate, Valerian Zorin, launched into an angry hour-long diatribe against the American's "illegal abuse of the commission's authority" and warned that "inventing pretexts for defending human rights is not conducive to positive development of Soviet-American relations...
...Valerian Zorin met with several members of the Russian Research Center, including director Adam Ulam, professor of Government, and associate director Edward L. Keenan, master of North House...
...distorted Soviet accounts was a special half-hour television program conducted by two of Russia's best-known journalists, Leonid Zamyatin, 52, head of the official news agency Tass, a sophisticated man who has spent considerable time in the U.S. (including ten days last May); and Valentin Zorin, 50, a hard-lining television commentator...
...listeners heard was something Nixon's last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
...Zorin: The complicated and difficult economic situation within the country created a certain backdrop and a certain discontent among the American people. It is indicative that when an opinion poll was taken among ordinary Americans, 80% of them said that they considered the most important thing for themselves was not the interparty squabble in Washington but the economic problems which have arisen before every American. This created the background...