Word: proconsul
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...close relations with the Kremlin, Moscow last week announced the appointment of Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir M. Vinogradov, 49, as ambassador to Cairo. Vinogradov was an impressive replacement for the late ambassador, Sergei A. Vinogradov (no kin), who before his death two months ago was a kind of proconsul overseeing the 12,000 to 15,000 Russians in Egypt...
...Silhouette. Russian troops in Egypt are under the control of Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Sergei Vinogradov, who acts as a kind of proconsul for the Kremlin with somewhat the same role and prestige as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker. The Soviet military men, as well as the civilians, generally try to maintain an extremely low silhouette. Missile technicians live in self-contained tent communities. "An SA3 site," says a Western diplomat, "comes with cooks, bottle washers, the lot." Occasionally an Egyptian might glimpse a busload of Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers...