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...well within Khrushchev's flair for macabre melodrama. In this baleful light, it became completely clear to Kennedy that the U.S. had no course but to squash the Soviet missile buildup. But how? In his long, soul-trying talks with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, State Secretary Dean Rusk, the CIA's McCone and other top civilian and military officials, the plan was arduously worked out. Direct invasion of Cuba was discarded-for the time being. So was a surprise bombing attack on the missile sites. Both methods might cause Khrushchev to strike back instinctively and plunge the world...
...Judge for Yourself." Throughout that afternoon, Cadillacs swept through the magnificent October sunshine bearing foreign diplomats on urgent summons to the State Department. Russia's Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin smiled affably at newsmen as he strolled into the building. After the usual pleasantries, Rusk handed Dobrynin a copy of Kennedy's speech and a letter to Khrushchev. Dobrynin emerged 25 minutes later, his shoulders sagging and his face the color of fresh putty. When reporters asked him what had happened, he snapped: "You can judge for yourself soon enough...
Considering his credentials-he is one of 467 members of the Japanese Diet-Politician Eisaku Sato was certainly getting a lot of attention. From meetings in Europe with Adenauer and De Gaulle, he whisked into Washington for chats with nearly every Cabinet member from Dean Rusk to Luther Hodges, even had ten minutes with President Kennedy on a day when the Cuban crisis was coming to a boil. As Sato moved on to the U.N. and Canada, it was obvious that he was more than just another member of the Diet. He was, in fact, everybody's odds...
Tangible Menace. This dramatic expression of hemisphere solidarity was the end of a long, patient road for the U.S., and a signal victory for Dean Rusk. Time after time in past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly...
...Latin Americans rose to speak and vote, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk looked squarely at each ambassador. Said Guatemala's Carlos Urrutia Aparicio: "This is no hour for limp diapers and half-measures-we move now for history." One by one, 19 nations voted "aye" to the resolution. Only little Uruguay, lacking instructions from home, abstained. And when the word came from Montevideo, Uruguay made it unanimous...