Word: mikoyan
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...those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched...
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...
...Mikoyan 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...
Next day. Mikoyan and Rusk lunched and talked for nearly three hours without making any progress. At week's end, Anastas Mikoyan headed home, presumably to report to Khrushchev. Communist ways being what they are, there was no telling what he would say-but he certainly could not claim that he had sold the U.S. any rugs...
...CRISIS NEGOTIATOR in his meeting with Russia's Mikoyan...