Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, he loved them both-"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet when Mikoyan settled down to serious discussion of Cuba. During Mikoyan's small-talk sessions with Stevenson, some U.S. officials spoke of the possibility that the Russian was waiting to see President Kennedy before really doing business...
Kennedy stuck steadfastly to the key U.S. position: there must be inspection of Cuba by an international group to make sure that all the missiles and bombers were gone. The President read to Mikoyan the parts of Khrushchev's letters, both public and private, in which the Premier spelled out his promise to allow on-site inspection...
...argued back that the Soviet Union had already done so much to meet Kennedy's demands for withdrawing offensive weapons that there really was no need for any inspection. Mikoyan even had the effrontery to endorse Castro's preposterous position that he would permit U.N. inspection of Cuba only...
...Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, arose at 2:30 a.m., by 3:30 was being briefed in the base operations building. The date was Oct. 29, 1962. O'Grady's mission: to lead a flight of RF-101 "Voodoo" supersonic jets on a low-level aerial reconnaissance flight over Cuba. His specific targets: an airfield and a missile site. Last week O'Grady, who was one of 25 Air Force, Navy and Marine reconnaissance pilots who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for their work, wrote the most detailed account so far of how it feels...
...COLD-WAR STRATEGIST, presiding over a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council to discuss the U.S.'s next moves in Cuba...