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DIED. JOHN A. SCALI, 77, former ABC News correspondent; in Washington. In 1962, as the world was watching the rapidly escalating Cuban missile crisis, a Soviet intelligence official asked Scali to pass on to the White House a proposal to defuse the edge-of-Armageddon confrontation. President Kennedy then asked the newsman to keep a lid on the secrets he was privy to as unofficial go-between. Nobly, Scali did--passing up the scoop of a lifetime...
...divide purely along partisan lines. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich and G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Richard Lugar and Patrick Buchanan back the English-only movement, G.O.P. Governor George Bush of Texas left popular bilingual programs untouched in his recent school reforms. In Florida, another key primary state, politically powerful Cuban Americans--most of whom are Republicans--were dismayed by Dole's stance. "Attacking bilingual education here is like attacking Mom and apple pie," says Mercedes Toural, head of Dade County's bilingual programs...
...significant warming of relations, Clinton announced that the U.S. would lift some restrictions on travel to Cuba and would allow news organizations to open bureaus in Havana. Cuban-American student exchanges would also be permitted. The President said the move would help move the Communist country toward a "peaceful transition to a free and open society." Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth reports: "The Administration's line on this is that it would allow for closer monitoring of human rights abuses. But the easing of travel restrictions is also very important, because in allowing more people in to see their relatives...
DIED. MALVIN R. GOODE, 87, network television's first black reporter; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hired by ABC News in 1962, Goode refused to be confined to "black stories" and covered the Cuban missile crisis and political conventions as well as the dramatic years of the civil rights movement...
...always was one, Dobrynin insists, though some days it must have been difficult. During the Cuban missile crisis, Moscow told him "absolutely nothing at all" of plans to place the missiles, then made him "an involuntary tool of deceit" by maintaining that they were defensive only. Khrushchev's lack of a fallback plan once the missiles were discovered was a lesson, Dobrynin notes, that was forgotten by his successors when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Ignoring warnings from his generals and ambassador, Brezhnev told Dobrynin not to worry: "It'll be over in three to four weeks...