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 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He forcefully asked the Soviet representative if his country was installing missiles in Cuba, punctuated with the famous demand, "Don't wait for the translation!" in demanding an immediate answer.
In a diplomatic coup, Stevenson then showed photographs that proved the existence of missiles in Cuba, just after Soviet ambassador Valerian Zorin had said they did not exist.
Stevenson died suddenly on July 14, 1965, during a stop in London.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Adlai_Stevenson   (1292 words)

  
 Glossary of People: L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The United Nations Security Council was called into session on December 7 to consider Soviet demands that the U.N. seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo.
Soviet Representative Valerian Zorin refused U.S. demands that he disqualify himself as Security Council President during the debate.
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, answering Soviet attacks against his Congo operations, said that if the U.N. force were withdrawn from the Congo “I fear everything will crumble.”
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/l/u.htm   (2931 words)

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