European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cuban missile crisis 1962 the other fell by George Gedda associated press president Kennedy telling National Nuto and tet Evlion audience on nov. I 196s, that soviet met tote Bates on cub an belly  Twenty five yiar3 ago John  Given perhaps the most troubling information any Prsir Tinl had received Sec Chic bomb mrs of Poriol Harbor a generation Alicr. H aos a tuesday mommie and Kennedy still in his  and slippers in Hia while House quarters Hoard National Security adviser Mcgeorge Bundy say or president there is now hard photographic evidence. That the russians have offensive missiles m Cuba " the cuban missile crisis had begun Kennedy said nothing publicly about Bundy s sobering revelation or six Days breaking inc hews of the missiles to the american people the allowing monday in a televised speech filled with drama he demanded that the soviets remove the missiles or else. The Specter of a nuclear Lac Down has always haunted the superpower rivalry but the anxiety of people everywhere during those october Days has not been surpassed since. Would it mean nuclear War if the soviets rejected Kennedy s demands Kennedy believed the chances of All out conflict were 1 in 3 or even 1 in 2 alter a week of agonizing tension the soviets backed Down agreeing to comply with Kennedy s terms while eliciting a pledge irom the president not of invade Cuba. The sense of Relief worldwide was almost palpable. Fresh information on the crisis indicates that Kennedy who initially favored an air strike against he missiles softened his position considerably As inc clays passed finally embracing a stand that went beyond even Hal advocated by his most dovish adviser Adlai Stevenson the . Ambassador to the United nations Bui according to new information from Kennedy s Secretary of stale. Dean flush he soviets Yiwei ded without knowing that Kennedy was prepared to make a map additional Concession to avoid a nuclear holocaust. During the crisis the United slates Gava every indication it would Settle for nothing less than soviet capitulation. The  mrs diary was placed on a full War fooling with missiles and b-52 bombers poised to rain the equivalent of 30 billion ions o int on soviet territory in the aftermath Kenned was widely praised for his handling of the crisis. His apparel mixture of firmness and restrain enabled him to transcend the toilet memory of hit failure at the Bay of pigs 18 months earlier and helped propel the democrats of Victory in the mid term elections a week alter the crisis. A Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger jr., Wyola in 1965 thai the president s actions dazzled the world and displayed the ripening of an american leadership unsurpassed in the responsible management of  Over time however the treatment of Kennedy has been somewhat less kind with some liberals accusing him of adventurism and conservatives saying the soviets won the confrontation by extracting the no invasion pledge. President Reagan s lop assistant for latin America Eliot Abrams has said he subscribes to the revisions theory thai the crisis was a . Setback because the United states in effect became a guarantor of the survival of the cuban revolution indeed soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev said alter Ward Hal he did nol see the removal of the missile missile ready tent missile erectors a Philo photo made ocl 23,1962 of runs missile site at san crib total Cuba inset soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday oct