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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President John F. Kennedy's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy were among the Americans present. The Soviets were represented by the likes of former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and onetime Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The Cubans were led by Politburo member Jorge Risquet. The atmosphere, said a participant, was one of "remarkable bonhomie." However, the meeting revealed that all three parties acted out of basic misperceptions during the crisis. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Near Tragedy Of Errors | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...Rockefeller," says a Baker friend, "why couldn't Bush dump Quayle?" Bush could, of course, but then there would be the residence problem. With both candidates from Texas, a Bush-Baker ticket might be required by the Constitution to forfeit that state's electoral votes. "And besides that," says Robert Strauss, "folks would probably find the whole thing too cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...fact, the Bush campaign made a similar determination last year when Robert Teeter explored the possibility of Bush's claiming Maine as his residence to run with Baker in 1988. Both Bush and Baker were reportedly intrigued, but the too-cute reasoning prevailed. And Bush has told TIME he won't change residences now that he is in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Wagner, who is the daughter of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, adds that few of Salenger's fellow performers envy her education...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: From Box Office to Books: Salenger Off Camera | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

TRUE paleo-conservatism has, as Dostoevsky explained, compassion and a sense of responsibility for "the insulted and the injured." It is not the callous libertarianism of Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick or Margaret Thatcher, which lends itself well to upper-class twittery and renunciations of social responsibility...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

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