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With the admission of the new African nations into the U.N., Russia finally had a means of forcing the issue. Ignoring the prohibition on package admissions implicit in the U.N. charter, Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin offered the West a deal: Outer Mongolia for Mauritania, one of the newly independent nations in the "Brazzaville group," twelve former French territories...
...Zorin had two things going for him: the U.S. and Nationalist China wanted to keep Red China out of the U.N., and the Brazzaville group wanted Mauritania in. Privately, the Brazzaville group threatened that if the West and Nationalist China vetoed Outer Mongolia, forcing a retaliatory Russian veto of Mauritania, they would support the admission of Communist China...
...Assembly President Mongi Slim bustled about the corridors, dickering, discussing and listening to all sides of the unsettled argument over the succession to Dag Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...
...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...