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...going to get out of it." Adds another: "Heaven help you if you are unprepared. He has a very sharp temper, and he uses it very effectively." The questioning continued as Kennedy and two aides rode in a Secret Service black limousine (driven by an agent) on the 20-min. trip to the Dirksen Office Building...
...Government continues its efforts to isolate the Cuban revolution." He called on the U.S. to desist from its "repressive maneuvers" aimed at perpetuating Puerto Rico's "colonial status." Shouts of "Fidel! Fidel!" echoed through the hall when Castro finished his stemwinder, and he reveled in a 1½-min. standing ovation. Among less enthusiastic spectators: U.S. Ambassador Donald McHenry, who listened impassively through the diatribe...
...emergency meeting began at 8:20. With Brzezinski around the long oval table were, among others: Vice President Walter Mondale, Pentagon Chief Harold Brown, CIA Director Stansfield Turner, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman David Jones and Presidential Senior Adviser Hedley Donovan. They were joined, some 70 min. later, by Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had been conferring in the President's family quarters. At 10:30 the meeting broke up. But less than nine hours later the limousines were back at the White House, and a second round was under way by 7:30 Friday morning...
...Havana: Fidel Castro, it was learned, was going to hold a Friday press conference, and he wanted U.S. journalists there. While there was no indication of what the Cuban leader would say, no one in the Administration expected words of conciliation, and Castro did not disappoint them. For 80 min., he met with eight U.S. correspondents, including TIME's Walter Isaacson, in a reception room outside his office...
...while, U.S.-U.S.S.R. talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...