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...predictions that Fidel Castro's regime was on the verge of collapse? White House experts have ruefully concluded that after 32 years in control, the old dictator still has staying power. While publicly vowing to maintain Marxist purity, Castro has allowed a number of perestroika-style reforms in the Cuban economy. Among them: linking farm-worker pay to the amount workers produce. The island has signed a $350 million trade deal with Mexico and may reap secondhand benefits when that country completes a long- debated free-trade agreement with...
...military operation can be totally under control, especially one with high-tech weapons. That's the lesson of the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam. Is this situation under control? The answer is "Yes, but." Bush and Powell and Cheney are doing a superb job, but I tell you Jesus Christ himself can't keep one of these things under control...
...Cuban missile crisis was very, very bad. There was a moment on Saturday night, Oct. 27, '62 -- it sounds melodramatic and I don't mean to be -- when, as I left the President's office to go back to the Pentagon -- a perfectly beautiful fall evening -- I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night...
...demands of war often reveal special qualities in Presidents not easily detected in the babble of a political campaign. For 5 1/ 2 months Bush went down a straight road to battle. There have been no black moods for Bush as there were for John F. Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis when he believed there was a likelihood of a nuclear exchange. Nor has Bush wandered through the darkened White House as Lyndon Johnson used to do, as much confused by his own experts as by his enemies in Vietnam. Richard Nixon sometimes sought solitude and brooded for hours...
Someday, my kids will ask me that question, just like I asked my parents where they were during the Cuban Missile Crisis and what they were doing when Kennedy was shot...