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...Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told a stunned nation that he was ordering a naval "quarantine" of Cuba because the U.S. had just acquired proof that there were Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles on the island. In addition, he said, sites were being built for intermediate-range ballistic missiles capable of striking at targets in much of North America. Not only were sites for the missiles under construction, he charged, but the assembly of Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons was well under...
...blockade, limited to stopping only the flow of offensive weapons, went into effect on Oct. 24. In a matter of hours a number of Soviet ships bound for Cuba began to change course. The first Soviet ship was halted on the high seas the next day by U.S. naval vessels but allowed to pass following only a "visual" inspection. On Oct. 28, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev officially informed the U.S. that the offending weapons in Cuba would be removed as soon as possible. Kennedy had won the hair-raising showdown...
...companies - was in similar trouble. Though the House had passed the bill, it was stalled in the Senate. It was said that Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee, had abandoned his commitment to put a windfall tax bill on the President's desk by Oct. 1. The White House let it be known that it was willing to compromise. The $146 billion in revenues anticipated from the tax would not all have to go to mass transportation or to relief for low-income groups, as originally planned. Some of the money, suggested the White House, could...
...pope plans to arrive in Boston the afternoon of Oct. 1, say a Mass on Boston Common, spend the night in the city, and leave for New York the next...
Commercial trucks and vans making deliveries must leave the area by 10 a.m. on Oct. 1. The city will allow cars to use the roads surrounding the area but will prohibit them from entering. Authorities will permit only taxis and buses with special permits to enter the restricted zone, the mayor said...