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...even had a chance to present them formally. Calling a press conference, Tsarapkin damned Kennedy's concessions as "unrealistic, impractical, and not conducive to agreement." Then he announced that Russia would no longer agree to a single neutral administrator to supervise inspections, demanded instead the now famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists a veto any time the Western member at a lonely inspection post deep in Russia decided a suspicious cloud of dust or a distant rumble needed checking out as a possible illicit nuclear explosion...
...Rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand that a three-man secretariat replace Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold as head of the U.N., the U.S. promised to use its veto to preserve the status quo. Russia's "troika" proposal, argued Rusk, not only "flies in the face of everything we know about effective administration" but attacks "the equal rights and opportunities now enjoyed by all members of the General Assembly-and the protection afforded them by the U.N.'s peace-keeping machinery...
More vivid and more accurate than Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin's description of the Russian troika [June 16] is that of Dostoevsky's character Ippolit Kirillovitch in The Brothers Karamazov, Book XII, Chapter...
...negotiable," said Nikita firmly. He was frank to admit that it all began last year, when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was able to maneuver the Reds out of the Congo. It was at the shoe-banging U.N. General Assembly session in September that Khrushchev first broached the troika idea, demanding that the U.N. Secretariat be run not by one man, but by a team of three secretaries. Since then Moscow's delegates have applied it to every international conference in sight, including Laos and the nuclear test ban talks...
...African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating. In fact, Nkrumah has reportedly concluded that Khrushchev's "troika" is a dangerous obstacle to Africa's aspirations...