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...time as a close adviser and confidant to President John F. Kennedy ‘40 at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking on the 45th anniversary of the confrontation, Sorensen, now 79, recounted how he personally drafted the memos that Kennedy sent to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the intense negotiations. The audience was tense as Sorensen spoke of the caution he had to use. “When I was drafting the letter to Khrushchev, I knew that if I provoked him, his response would be too horrible to imagine,” Sorensen said...
...Anna Kim, Prateek Kumar, and Nikita Makarchev contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Aditi Banga can be reached at abanga@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...called President George W. Bush the devil, made no contribution to peace [Oct. 2]. Chávez tried to transform an important forum of debate into a circus. Maybe he thought that he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, or maybe he was trying to mimic Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who banged the lectern with his shoe in the same forum. Both leaders were disrespectful to the delegates, U.N. officials and the U.N. as an institution that represents our ultimate hope for peace. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should take measures to avoid such occurrences in the future and uphold...
...when it became clear that Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe could not last? Did it give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into the hands of hard-liners, encourage them to crush dissent, and hence plunge half of a continent into a gloom that would last for another 33 years? Did the U.S., which had appeared to encourage resistance to Soviet rule - but did nothing to help...
...called President George W. Bush the devil, made no contribution to peace [Oct. 2]. Chávez tried to transform an important forum of debate into a circus. Maybe he thought that he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, or maybe he was trying to mimic Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who banged the lectern with his shoe in the same forum. Both leaders were disrespectful to the delegates, U.N. officials and the U.N. as an institution that represents our ultimate hope for peace. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should take measures to avoid such occurrences in the future and uphold...