Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first pictures brought back of four medium-range missile sites indicated that the Russians were indeed dismantling their missiles. Some missile launchers had been removed, trailers and tents had vanished, and some areas had been plowed and bulldozed over. One picture showed a truck convoy moving away from a base...
...magic, thick woods had been torn down, empty fields were clustered with concrete mixing plants, fuel tanks and mess halls. Chillingly clear to the expert eye were some 40 slim, 52-ft., medium-range missiles, many of them already angled up on their mobile launchers and pointed at the U.S. mainland. With an estimated range of 1,200 miles, these missiles, armed with one-megaton warheads, could reach Houston. St. Louis -or Washington. The bases were located at about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western...
Verse is not the usual medium through which Russia's masters express themselves, but last week an obvious political hint was to be found in a poem...
...falsehood at the U.S. charge of a missile buildup in Cuba. "Let me say something to you, Mr. Ambassador." he told Zorin. "we do have the evidence!" He hammered at Soviet evasiveness and demanded an answer: "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium-and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no-don't wait for the translation-yes or no?" The audience, transfixed by Stevenson's untypical aggressiveness and wrath, buzzed excitedly. There was some nervous laughter. Zorin, genuinely startled, smiled too. Then he replied lamely...
...United States is and should be committed to the elimination of Soviet military power in Cuba, because the presence of medium and intermediate range missles constitutes a direct military threat to the United States and its allies in the Western Hemisphere; because that presence is in violation of the pledge given repeatedly by the Soviet government that Russian aid to Cuba has been purely defensive. And finally, because Soviet missile bases in Cuba undermine the status quo in the Cold War geographical balance of power which has kept the Western Hemisphere off limits to Soviet military penetration...