Word: lavrentiev
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...officer denied making the call, denied the suicide story as well, hung up. In spite of the denials, the report quickly spread all over Teheran last week, for if there was a diplomat with cause to be upset by life's inscrutable tricks, it was Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked...
...foreign newspapermen, the Shah, after patting the bureaucrats' heads, tried to disengage himself. He looked tired, and as he made his way down the reception line past teary-eyed officials, his own eyes filled too. He clasped Ambassador Henderson's hand heartily; he gave Soviet Envoy Anatoly Lavrentiev a perfunctory handclasp. Then he was off to the palace in a limousine, under hastily erected triumphal arches and past cheering crowds...