Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DEAN RUSK...
...extensive bombing would "kill an awful lot of people," in which case it would be "almost incumbent on the Russians" to threaten a strong counterblow, perhaps far from Cuba. Moreover, the secrecy necessary for successful military action would preclude consultation with allies, and that worried Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He warned that if the U.S. took "an action of this sort without letting our closer allies know of a matter which could subject them to very great danger ... we could find ourselves isolated and the [NATO] alliance crumbling ... at a moment of maximum peril...
Last week lawmen were searching for leads and suspects in the grisly slayings near Kilgore (pop. 11,000), an affluent town 100 miles east of Dallas. Officials were so stumped that Rusk County Sheriff Mike Strong brought in two psychics to comb the oilfield where the victims were found for any clues to the puzzle. Ballistic and autopsy reports showed that two guns had been used to fire eleven bullets into the five bodies. Some $2,000 was missing from the restaurant cash register, and jewelry, billfolds, purses and other valuables had been taken from the victims...
...most famous remarks of superpower brinkmanship, Dean Rusk remarked, as Soviet ships steamed home from Cuba with the rockets on their decks, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked." In negotiating the understanding that ended the crisis, Andrei Gromyko's deputy, Vasily Kuznetsov, said sternly to his American counterpart, John McCloy, "You Americans will never be able to do this to us again." It was largely the humiliation of that episode that impelled the Soviet Union to undertake its 20-year buildup, of which the SS-20 program is one of the most troublesome...
Another priority Rusk cited is relieving graduate students' feeling that they are second-class citizens at Harvard...