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...Russia exploded nuclear bombs with daily regularity, the satellites were plainly more frightened than the West, and Red leaders made calming speeches to avert rising war fears. A grisly joke took measure of the situation. "What would you do if a nuclear war broke out?" asks one Communist. "I would cover myself with a sheet and walk slowly to the cemetery,"' replies another. "Why slowly?" "To avoid creating panic...
Many opposition members believe that the Trujillos intend to stay on at all costs. But there is the alternate possibility that they will go quietly, leaving Balaguer as the legitimate head of the government, at least until the elections, promised next May. Such a course would avert the danger of a chaotic period, in which the forces of Castro and Communism work best...
...really tried to look, said Eichmann's dry, pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...
...they had reached the discussion stage some time before that. These preparations were undertaken under the guise of repelling a communist threat. But if they were being discussed that far back one is entitled to ask whether they did not help to create the threat they were designed to avert, by forcing Castro into Soviet arms, in order to gain assistance in repelling an invasion which his own intelligence apparatus told him was already in preparation. He was in fact better informed than the mass of Americans. Could anything be more likely to force him to seek the Soviet embrace...
...both sides, only breaking the spiral of antagonism could avert catastrophe. A method already suggested would entail the scheduled restoration of trade relations conditional upon the Cuban leader's promise not to enter into any aggressive alliance or agreement against the U.S. This is a condition which Castro has indicated he would accept if the State Department could encourage a mutually trusted mediator (President Quadros of Brazil) to take the initiative in resuming discussions...