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...advisers were hawks, concerned about not showing "weakness" and arguing for military action. From the beginning, President Kennedy was dovishly cautious. He was willing to pledge not to invade Cuba if that would get the missiles out. He also thought it made sense to accept Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's call to take 15 intermediate-range U.S. Jupiter missiles out of Turkey as part of the deal. After much debate, Robert Kennedy was sent down the street to tell Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin privately that the Jupiters would soon be out of Turkey...
...charisma, no military experience, no long career as a revolutionary fighter. In other words, he's not Deng. But none of the other members of China's collective leadership are either. Today's top Politburo members are bureaucrats and engineers. In Soviet terms, Jiang would not even be Nikita Khrushchev; rather, he's more like Leonid Brezhnev. The others are no different, and that works in two ways. They may have no more claim to greatness than Jiang, but now that Deng is gone they can easily go after their present leader. "So long as the old man was still...
...York City; after 21 months of marriage. DIED. JULIET PROWSE, 59, leggy redheaded dancer who achieved fame in the 1960 movie musical Can-Can; of pancreatic cancer; in Holmby Hills, California. Raised in South Africa and trained as a ballerina, Prowse made worldwide headlines when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the Hollywood set of Can-Can and denounced the dancing as indecent. After her film career petered out, she went on to star in a series of TV specials...
...Life Building, he spoke with animation of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, sounding a bit like an aging star reliving his most memorable role. He told TIME's editors two little-known facts about the crisis, one never previously recorded. He said a lone Russian commander in Cuba--not Nikita Khrushchev or anyone in Moscow--held the authority to launch tactical nuclear weapons in case of a U.S. invasion. Castro also claimed that Khrushchev inadvertently read him a letter sent by John F. Kennedy to the Kremlin during the crisis. In the letter Kennedy promised to quietly withdraw U.S. missiles...
From 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev sent him to Washington, until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev brought him home, the warm, wary and perceptive Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered...