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...sessions were called to help the President decide on what action he might take if Moscow refused to bow to U.S. demands for a change in the status quo in Cuba. Such a refusal appeared increasingly likely, as Vance had made absolutely no progress during talks earlier in the week in Manhattan with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Only two hours after saying goodbye to Gromyko on Thursday, Vance was back in Washington to brief Carter at the White House. Immediately after that, the two men headed for the Cabinet Room and the first of the NSC meetings...
Carter's week of crisis started in a deceptively friendly setting: a town meeting at New York City's Queens College. It was the kind of meet-the-voter outing that he so enjoys and that usually produces nothing more than a picnic of calm discussion about unstormy subjects. But midway through the proceedings, Fred Feingold, a salesman from Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy...
...tension mounted last week, Church showed no flexibility at all. Said he: "The Russians have no business having combat troops in Cuba, and I believe these forces should be withdrawn. If we are unable to draw the line with the Russians in Cuba, where do we draw...
...Administration has been arguing that although the Soviet brigade does not threaten the U.S. militarily, it does endanger the nation's security interests. But even while his President was talking tough, Vance was cautioning against overdramatizing the issue. Three weeks before, in the first major Administration statement on the brigade, Vance had said: "We regard this as a very serious problem." But last week he emphasized to a Manhattan luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association that "we have significant interests at stake in our total relationship with the Soviet Union." Thus the matter of the Soviet troops must...
...second incident occurred last week during Carter's town meeting at Queens College in New York City. In a long dissertation about leadership, Carter said: "We've had some crises where it required a steady hand, a careful and deliberate decision to be made. I don't think I panicked in the crisis...