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...real reasons for Barghoorn's arrest remained a mystery. United States officials in Moscow stayed away from a Russian reception in protest of Soviet refusal to allow them to see the professor. In another development, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin criticized President Kennedy's postponement of negotiations on a new cultural exchange treaty...
Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...
...Stevenson's performance during the October Cuban crisis should have occasioned last week's controversy. For, to all outward appearances, this was Adlai's finest hour as U.N. Ambassador. Acting on talk-tough instructions telephoned to him by President Kennedy, Stevenson flayed Russia's Valerian Zorin. "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?" he demanded. "Yes or no-don't wait for translation-yes or no?" When Zorin protested that he was not a defendant in an American court, Stevenson...
...will have your answer in due course," Zorin said. "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over," snapped Stevenson. For millions of Americans watching the performance on television, it was Stevenson at his best -a reasonable man who had finally lost patience with an outrageous opponent...
...been willing to back Thant months ago but the Russians, who were still on record as demanding a troika to run the world organization, dragged their feet. Finally, Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin last week conceded that "in view of the realities of the situation" Moscow would not press for a troika-which was doomed to defeat anyway...