Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escalante and his lieutenants had similar meetings with a journalist of the Soviet news agency Novosti, the captain and first officer of a Soviet "fishing boat," and a Soviet adviser to Cuban intelligence. In one such meeting last year, Raúl said, Rudolf P. Shliapnikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Havana, assured the group that Russia could bring Castro to his knees by simply cutting off oil shipments. "Rodolfo made his observation," Raúl noted dryly, "in the midst of laughter...
...President went into his crisis routine, meeting Rostow, conferring by telephone with Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms. The first afternoon of the crisis, an informal "Planning Committee"-reminiscent of the Executive Committee (ExComm) set up under President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962-began to emerge. It included Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Press Secretary George Christian, UnderSecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Sam Berger, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke...
...suggestion for a limited call-up of air units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also called the seizure of the ship a "wanton and aggressive act" and added, tightlipped: "Clearly, this...
...those called back, it was the fourth and fifth time they had been summoned to the colors. Lieut. Colonel LaVerne Donner, 46, commander of the 107th Tactical Fighter Group, Niagara Falls, fought in World War II, and was later reactivated for the Korean War and the Berlin and Cuban crises. When his unit was mobilized again, said his wife Marilynn, "we all sat down and cried...
Fisher said he will ask several scholars each to choose an incident--such as the Cuban missile crisis--and analyze the "points of choice" at which international law was crucial in shaping the event. Other members of the panel will then present alternative analyses of the crisis...