European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes thursday december 27,1990 Quot a a i it t t �?ov4 t a a a a is St it vow it to William Safi re emperor has no clothes London a not since Maksim Litvinov Stalin a commissar for foreign affairs vainly warned his own Leader and the world against appeasing the dictator Hitler has a soviet Diplomat shown the vision of Eduard Shevardnadze in warning of the impending dictatorship of freedoms faithless Friend Mikhail Gorbachev. Consider How this historic admonition reverberates around the Globin the soviet Union people seeking religious toleration or fearful of ethnic persecution arc in a panic to escape. Dissidents see the face of Stalin a secret police chief Lavrenti Cria in the Bland features of Vladimir Kryuchkov of the Kab who exhumed the politics of paranoia to rail at Cia subversion even in the Corn being delivered by the West. The red army a colonels of crackdown go a rebuffed. The occupied Baltic states Brace for brutality from their Quisling the latvian Boris Pugo recently elevated by Gorbachev to head what is fast becoming a new version of the ministry of fear. In the United states the Gurby at any Price plaque derogate the Shevardnadze warning grimly sticking with its Man As the bulwark against stalinism even As his inner Circle reveals the truth the dictator has chosen to Label Freedom a chaos a and prettily repression As a order a for the purpose of holding a tight Union and preventing the development of a free confederation. Americans doves Are looking for a dividend in the resignation of the Man who brought soviet policy into the coalition against Saddam Hussein. They Hope that Kab and Rucj army elements that opposed the Shevardnadze line May now press for a Deal that leaves the iraqi dictator a longtime soviet client in peace and in Power . eager for delay in the persian Gulf would prefer the arabist Boris Primakow or the anti american Valentin Falin As Kremlin foreign minister. A Here in Britain where the principled resignation of a key minister led to the toppling of mrs. Thatcher the resignation of Shevardnadze is seen As a Harbinger of the downfall of Gorbachev or at least the doom of the a a Good red army cheating on conventional disarmament agreements tacitly approved by the a a bad Gorbachev humiliated Shevardnadze what now troubles Francois Heusbourg who Heads the Institute for strategic studies Here is a possible setback for the Start treaty scheduled for completion at a Moscow Summit in february. Strategists Are attracted to Start today for a reason that would have been considered bizarre a year ago it May better enable both superpowers to count a a. / a. A. A a a a a. A a Anthony Lewis and control the soviet unions nuclear missiles in Case of a Union breakup also the missiles scheduled for retirement first Are sited in the Ukraine a fast loosening Republic. How does the departing ministers cry for help in Reform resonate in the minds of those who always believed Gorbachev to be a Power hungry opportunist improvising glasnost As a Means to Jettison the Burden of Eastern Europe and save the soviet Union for socialist Central control we find it hard to comprehend How his apologists in the West can still cling to the notion that he is saving us All from sinister forces of repression and that we should help him As he applies a Tittle discipline some unavoidable Skull cracking a to those irresponsible types whose Calls for self government cause even our Secretary of state takes the moment of the Shevardnadze resignation the first such political self sacrifice in Kremlin history to remind us of the dangers of the people closest to the great Juggler know better after five years of talk about restructuring he has built Only a new edifice of Power for himself the Kab and the red army generals making the soviet. Union Safe for dictatorship. /. \ \ some of his Early followers attributed a dream to him a a vision of a less regimented More productive land. They have now been shunted aside subjected to harassment and humiliation that leads to self purge by men with harder eyes and More brutal ways the great juggling act is coming to an end. To an internal Empire whose Unity can be saved Only by voluntary federalism the Juggler has dropped his pins on the Side of inescapable Union to a command Economy that can be rescued Only by the profit motive he comes Down on the Side of further control to Peoples who need the Rule of Law he proclaims the Law of the ruler a a presidential Rule a this millennium a final euphemism for tyranny. A a. C new York times. A a lesson Learned from cuban missile crisis a the great example of american resolve in the years since world War ii was the cuban missile crisis. Kennedy and Khrushchev were eyeball to eyeball and Khrushchev blinked. That was the Story. A but it was really not so simple. And not so one sided. So we Learned trom Robert Kennedy a account of the crisis a thirteen Days a published after his death in 1969. A a a a a a a a a. A. The missile crisis began on oct. 16, 1962, when president Kennedy from analysis of . Reconnaissance flights that the soviet Union had secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Within the Kennedy administration there was Strong support for an immediate . Military attack Kennedy decided to see first whether there was some Way to get the missiles removed without a War that might Lead to escalating nuclear exchanges there were messages Back and Forth to Moscow on saturday oct. 27, a u-2 reconnaissance plane was shot Down Over Cuba by a Sam missile almost All of Kennedy a Advisees agreed that . Bombers should go in the next morning and destroy the Sam . /. But again the president said no. He wanted to make one More attempt to avoid a conflagration that could in Rob Ert Kennedy swords a engulf and destroy All Mankind a the president and Secrce tary of state Rusk asked Robert Kennedy to meet with the soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. When they met that evening Robert Kennedy told the ambassador that we a had to have a commitment by tomorrow that those missile bases would be removed i was not giving them an ultimatum but a statement of fact. He should understand that if they did not remove those bases we would remove them a ambassador Dobrynin asked what diplomatic offer the United states was maxing. He was told about a letter sent to Khrushchev that Day proposing removal of the bases and missiles under International inspection arid in return an Assurance that the United states would not invade Cuba. It the ambassador then raised the question of american nuclear missiles in Turkey on the soviet Border. In fact the were obsolete. Before the crisis president Kennedy had ordered them removed a but it was not done. Robert Kennedy wrote a i said to Dobrynin that there could be no quid pro quo or any arrangement made under this kind of threat or pressure. However i said president Ken Nedy had been anxious to remove those missiles from Turkey and Italy for a Long time. And it was our judgment that within a Short time after this crisis was Oyer those missiles would be when the meeting ended Robert Kennedy went Back to the White House a the president was not optimistic a he wrote. Air Force reserves were called up. A the expectation was a military confrontation by tuesday and possibly the next Day sunday oct. 28, ambassador Dobrynin asked to see Robert Kennedy again. He said Kennedy wrote that Khrushchev had agreed to dismantle and withdraw the missiles under adequate supervision and inspection and that Khrushchev wanted to Send his Best wishes to the president arid the crisis was Over. The truth then is that a secret american undertaking a to remove missiles Turkey a made the solution possible. It was not a Public quid pro quo. But u was said in a Way that Khrushchev could trust.1j president Kennedy had undertaken publicly to remove the missiles from Turkey in return for removal of the soviet missiles from Cuba Hawks would have denounced him As weak. _ but can there be anyone today who thinks War would have been better than that undertaking the history is Worth recalling As another crisis threatens War in the persian Gulf. So is the attitude that president Kennedy maintained during the missile crisis. He had read Barbara Tuchmann a Book on the bungling that led to world War i a the guns of August a and it made a deep impression on him that last saturday night oct. 27, he said to his Broth her a a a i am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable Book about this title a the missiles of if anybody is around to write after this they Are going to understand that we made every Effort to find peace and every Effort to give our adversary room to move. I am not going to push the russians an Inch beyond what is Nee perhaps Only those who lived through those j3 Days can appreciate How scary that time was How close nuclear War seemed. It is As important now As it was then to understand before acting what the consequences of War May be. C new York time
