Word: troika
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...African or Asian-as a temporary administrator. Stevenson knew that it was useless to press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound U.N. executive, representing East, West and the neutrals. To make the point, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko already was repeating a little rhyme to reporters...
Council members denied the plan was "based on a similar one recently proposed by a certain country in the United Nations." "This is not a troika," one declared. "There is provision for efficient division of labor...
President Kennedy called for a step-by-step progression to complete disarmament, underscored the American position on Berlin, and repeated his country's opposition to the "troika" principle before the United Nations yesterday...
...proposed reorganization of the U.N. secretariat, he said, "even the three horses of the troika did not have three drivers, all going in different directions. They had only one--and so must the United Nations executive...
...Troika was clearly unacceptable. But Kennedy was still determined to show the world that the U.S. was willing to talk at Geneva as long as there was anything to talk about, despite the growing clamor from U.S. generals and scientists who feared that the substantial nuclear lead the U.S. enjoyed over Russia in October 1958 might now be greatly reduced unless testing was resumed. Back to Geneva went Arthur H. Dean with a new set of compromise proposals. He presented them one day last week at the 337th weary session in Room VIII of the Palais. Scratchy showed no signs...