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...European Community and Third World foreign ministers in Brussels to announce solemnly that "the party leader of one of the greatest nations of the world has passed away." Cheysson was nearly two hours ahead of Moscow with his news bulletin. Embarrassed French officials later explained that Cheysson had misread a garbled cable from Paris and taken informed supposition for fact...
...plan had worked-and it came fearfully close-Nikita Khrushchev would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the cold war. Once again a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet...
...Korean Air Lines flights is usually responsible for entering navigational data, might have done so after Neeva. Although each INS is supposed to be programmed separately, in practice the numbers are often put in simultaneously. The co-pilot (or other crew member) on Flight 007 could have simply misread the coordinates from his chart when he punched them into the computer. It is standard procedure for the other crew members to double-check these navigational entries. But airmen have been known to skip this precautionary step...
...same, says Aloian, to be certain Harvard had not misread Walesa's words, he passed along a copy of Beranczak's translation of the union chief's reply to Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and head of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Ulam pronounced it accurate--"It seemed fairly faithful to me," he remembers...
Khrushchev evidently decided Kennedy could be pushed around, and so he ordered nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. Khrushchev badly misread Kennedy. Eighteen years later Brezhnev measured Jimmy Carter during the Vienna summit of 1979; he subsequently decided that the Soviets could invade Afghanistan without serious consequences...