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Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who guided the Kennedy Administration through the Cuban Missile Crisis and led the Johnson Administration deeper into Vietnam, died last night from heart disease in his Athens, Ga., home. Touted as one of Kennedy's team of "best and brightest," Rusk stayed in the post through the end of Johnson's tenure in 1969 -- despite criticism (even from one of his sons) over his advocacy of the flagging Vietnam war effort. For that, he never apologized: "Because of this nation's commitments, I had a duty to perform; to try to prevent North Vietnam...
...Charles de Gaulle ordered American troops -- successors of the D-day soldiers who had liberated France from Hitler and were now part of NATO -- to get out of France. "Do you want us to move American cemeteries out of France as well? asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...group of Quincy diners, Jenifer K. Kenser'95, Natalie W. Rusk '95 and Linette M. Venturea'95 say they are hardly fastidious about theirfood choices. Nevertheless, each woman says shehas a favorite food without which the dining hallwould not be the same...
...Rusk says she subsists on the dining halls'Honey Mustard Sauce which she eats on "everything"and which she estimates has approximately twograms...
...kept alive by a cocktail of medicine every day, along with cortisone implants in his thighs and feel-good amphetamine injections. Kennedy's secret sexual encounters with dozens of women are now well known. Reeves documents some of them, including one arranged by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a villa in Italy owned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Rusk's former employer. Reeves also shows Kennedy routinely lying about what U.S. troops were doing in Southeast Asia and about American involvement in attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro...