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...missiles and to remove them from Cuba; he had professed himself willing to have United Nations inspectors oversee the withdrawal. This was a basic U.S. condition. But arrangements for the inspection became confused when they were placed in the hands of the U.N. and its Acting Secretary-General U Thant...
...Thant organized a 19-man team to go to Cuba. At his urgent request, the U.S. obligingly lifted its blockade and aerial surveillance. Thant flew to Havana-and ran into a cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried...
Enter the Salesman. U Thant returned from Cuba murmuring diplomatically that the talks had been "fruitful." With their strutting puppet causing an impasse, the Russians announced that Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's First Deputy Premier and the U.S.S.R.'s most amiable salesman, would go to Cuba. There was an understandable notion that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were...
While the talks with U Thant were going on, Khrushchev suddenly proposed his cynical swap: he would pull his missiles out of Cuba if Kennedy pulled his out of Turkey. His long, rambling memorandum was remarkable for its wheedling tone-that of a cornered bully. Wrote Khrushchev: "The development of culture, art and the raising of living standards, this is the most noble and necessary field of competition . . . Our aim was and is to help Cuba, and nobody can argue about the humanity of our impulse...
...nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea to Acting Secretary-General U Thant, who thereupon started to work out a kind of truce. Then, two days later, came Stevenson's best performance since he took...