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Fact-Fiction. But Bartlett and Alsop cast a far different, much harsher light on Stevenson's Cuban crisis behavior. Their Post piece has much in common with the Washington fact-fiction novels that are now clogging the bestseller lists. It purports to narrate the secret deliberations of "ExComm"-an abbreviation for the National Security Council Executive Committee that was unknown even to members of the group until it was repeated paragraph after paragraph by Bartlett and Alsop. The Post story is filled with Druryisms and some language that seems to be left over from the magazine's serialization...
...Answer. The best answer seemed to be "quarantine"-a Navy blockade against ships carrying offensive weapons to Cuba. That would give the Premier time and food for thought. It would offer the U.S. flexibility for future, harsher action. It seemed the solution most likely to win support from the U.S.'s NATO allies and the Organization of American States. And it confronted the Soviet Union with a showdown where it is weakest and the U.S. is mighty: on the high seas. For the U.S. Navy, under Chief of Naval Operations George Anderson, 55, has no rival...
...biggest shipbuilder for the eighth straight year. Even more enticing were some future prospects held out to the Japanese delegation in Moscow. The Soviets professed a desire to buy big amounts of Japanese steel, tubing and mining equipment. Playing on Japanese worries that the U.S. will impose ever harsher quotas on Japanese textiles, Moscow also talked of importing $500 million worth of Japanese cotton goods...
...which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied that the nation's 23-year-old war-emergency stockpiling program was chockablock with "mismanagement" and "unconscionable profits" and demanded a congressional investigation. On Wall Street, copper, lead, zinc and aluminum stocks softened, and futures in metals and rubber nosed down...
...think this is an instructive list. During this same period we have on occasion said things as harsh or harsher about political figures or government policies in Britain, France, West Germany, Italy. Canada, Brazil, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Mexico (among many others) without being censored. And there are those who might argue that political figures in the U.S. are often the most unhappy of all about what we say about them. In the end we (and other journalists) count on the reliability of our reporting and the responsibility of our writing to make our case as best...