European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday january 29,1989 participants in cuban rocket crisis talk experts Hope to earn lesson for future Moscow a americans and soviets who led their countries through the cuban missile crisis met Friday to draw lessons in superpower brinkmanship from the 1962 incident that president Bush called just the sort of episode we must avoid in the the conference in Southwest Moscow is the first on the topic to bring together representatives of the United states so Viet Union and Cuba including for Mer . Defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara and former soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko. Each Side has its own version of the events in october 1962, when the Sovi ets deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba and the United states imposed a Block Ade on the Island and demanded and obtained the rockets removal. At Friday s session the cubans complained that the soviets did not Consul them sufficiently during the crisis a participant said. The session was closed to reporters and the participant spoke on condition of anonymity. The participant said they also complained that the United states should have used diplomatic channels to express its demand that the soviet missiles be withdrawn and to clarify american intentions. The soviets and americans at the Summit clashed on whether War was imminent the participant said. The american Side cited conversations among themselves about whether they d live to see Days in the following week to Back their Contention that the threat of War was real said the the soviet Side Gromyko said the soviets never at any time acted under the belief that War was a real Georgy a. Arbatova head of the .a.-Canada Institute a Kremlin think tank told the conference that soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev erred in shipping nuclear missiles to Cuba be cause he had t anticipated the . Re action and humiliated his country the participant said. Other soviet officials at the session however praised Khrushchev As a great statesman who succeeded in getting the americans to pledge not to invade Cuba. Seated around an Oval table topped with Blue Felt Mcnamara and other . Participants including Mcgeorge Bundy Theodore Sorenson and Pierre Salinger Are exchanging thoughts with soviets including Gromyko Arbatova and Anatoly f. Dobrynin the former soviet ambassador to Washington. Bush in a message read by Jack mat lock the . Ambassador to Moscow called the session the latest example of the new openness under president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. He said International Security would be helped by closer study of the Cuba missile crisis. In his own message of greetings Gorbachev called on participants to think Over and draw lessons from this event that brought the world to the Brink of the nuclear he said a conflict was prevented be cause of the responsible approach and Good sense shown by the leaders of the time president Kennedy Khrushchev and cuban Leader Fidel Castro. Welcome Back american and
