The Boston Globe, October 11th, 1987
When President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua spoke at the United Nations the other day, the six members of the US delegation, led by Ambassador Vernon A. Walters, walked out. When the president of Iran criticized US policy toward his country in a speech at the United Nations last month, the US delegation, led on that occasion by Walters' deputy, ostentatiously stalked out of the chamber. These ceremonial walkouts are an imitation of a practice initiated by the Soviet Union's delegation 40 years ago when the United Nations was young. When Andrei Vishinsky engaged in this "empty chair" diplomacy, A...
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