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George

L. Sherry, a former United Nations official who helped calm crises around the

world — a role that evolved from his time as the leading rapid-fire translator

of speeches by Russian diplomats in the organization’s early days — died in

Manhattan on Friday. He was 87. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s

disease, his daughter, Vivien Sherry Greenberg, said. In the years just after

the founding of the United Nations in 1945, when speeches from the lectern of

the General Assembly and the Security Council were widely broadcast beyond the

earphones of the diplomats on the floor, Mr. Sherry became known as the

English-speaking voice of Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet delegate. “Deputy

Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky spoke yesterday in tones that were in

quick succession impassioned, angry, sarcastic, sardonic, pleading and

furious,” The New York Times reported on Sept. 19, 1947. “And the English

translation came through the walkie-talkie sets in the General Assembly in tones

that were just as impassioned, angry, sarcastic, sardonic, pleading and

furious.” It was Mr. Sherry who matched that 92-minute speech, a good deal of

it delivered extemporaneously. (He would later translate speeches by Soviet

officials like Ana. At the time a 24-year-old graduate of City College in New

York, Mr. Sherry would go on to a four-decade career at the United Nations,

rising to assistant secretary general for special political affairs. For most

of his career he worked beside two highly respected under secretary generals, Ralph J. Bunche and Sir Brian Urquhart,

helping to organize mediation and peacekeeping missions. In 1963, Mr. Sherry

helped negotiate the entry of United Nations troops into what is now the

Democratic Republic of Congo, effectively ending a long war of secession in

Katanga Province. A year later, he served as senior political adviser for

peacekeeping forces in the Turkish-Greek struggle over Cyprus. When the second

Indian-Pakistan war over Kashmir broke out in the fall of 1965, he was a member

of the observation mission there. And in 1982, he was one of two Americans

assigned to the task force created by Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

to help bring an end to the Falklands war. Mr. Sherry was director of the

special political affairs department from 1978 until he was promoted to

assistant secretary general in 1984. On Wednesday, Sir Brian called him an

“indispensable member” of the team. After retiring in 1985, Mr. Sherry became a

professor of international studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the

founding director of the college’s United Nations

program, which brings students to New York to work as interns. George

Leon Sherry was born in Poland on Jan. 5, 1924, the only child of Leon and

Henrietta Shershevsky. (The family, of Russian descent, changed its name after

immigrating to the United States in 1939.) By the time he was 15, George spoke

Russian, English, French and Romanian.