U S Navy Fans Out In Atlantic
U S Navy ships move from Puerto Rico and East Coast ports to halt search and if needed sink Soviet vessels bound for Cuba as President Kennedy imposes an arms blockade. Strategic Air Command alert and forces worldwide increase readiness amid potential missile threats in Cuba.
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U. S
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Cuba
Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Puerto Rico
U. S. Navy
Defense Department
United States
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Berlin
West Germany
Air Force
Patrick Air Force Base
Cape Canaveral
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Cuba Mobilizes as Castro Brands Blockade an Act of War
Havana broadcasts assert hundreds of thousands of Cuban troops mobilized in a war footing. Fidel Castro to address the nation with declarations while U.S. blockade marked as a provocation. Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui seeks UN Security Council meeting to probe the blockade.
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U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
Luis Gomez Manguemert
el Mundo
Foreign Ministry
United States
United Nations
Mario Garcia - Inchaustegui
Security Council
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Crisis mounts as U S blocks Cuba missiles
The United States moves naval ships to enforce a quarantine on Cuba to halt Soviet missile bases as President Kennedy pushes for crisis diplomacy. Khrushchev faces pressure to ease tensions while U N and OAS calls for actions and withdrawal of offensive weapons from Cuba. The situation intensifies with possible naval exchanges and planned Security Council meetings. The article also notes a local Lake County United Labor Committee endorsement of John Marshall Briley in the Ohio Senate race.
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U.S
Guantanamo Bay
John M. Hightower
Washington
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United States
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U. S
Havanaraco
Fidal Castro
Khrushchev
Dean Rusk
Anatoly Dobrynin
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Organization of American States
U. N. Security Council
OAS
Security Council
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Painesville
Lake County
National Security Council
Cuban Crisis Inflames Global Markets And Leaders
The Cuba blockade crisis sent mixed stock market action in New York with aerospace, steel, and rail shares rising while trading remained heavy and erratic. Former U S presidents Hoover and Truman voiced support for Kennedy, Eisenhower offered measured comments from Gettysburg. Military alerts increased in Europe as London and Washington prepared for developments. Havana flights were halted as Pan Am and KLM faced closure of civilian traffic.
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Kennedy
Cuba
Aerospace
Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Families Flee Guantanamo Evacuation to Norfolk
Hundreds of wives and children fled Guantanamo Bay amid crisis in Cuba and were flown to Norfolk by five Marine transports carrying 321 evacuees. Dependents, in light clothes with heavy suitcases, were housed at Little Creek in a three story barracks after a 90 minute warning to pack and depart.
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Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
Marine Corps
Atlantic Fleet
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Ban On Cuba Politics Ok'd By GOP Leaders
President Kennedy announced a Cuban crisis arms posture and canceled remaining campaign trips. Seven Republican leaders at the White House conference offered cautious support while urged continued consultation on Cuban developments.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Cuba
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Ok’d
GOP
Pershing Missile Test Hits 300 Miles on Sandy Turf
A Pershing artillery missile completed a successful 300 mile test flight under simulated battlefield conditions. The launch used a tracked vehicle, unusual for previous shots which rested on level cone pads on firm ground.
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Cape Canaveral
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Russia Halts Leaves and Discharges Across Armed Forces
The Soviet Union canceled all leaves and halted discharges from major branches including strategic rocket forces and the submarine fleet. Tass reported Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky presented measures to boost combat readiness amid U.S. actions and Kennedy’s Cuba quarantine. Marshal Grechko summoned Warsaw Pact officers to reinforce military preparedness. US ambassador Kohler was summoned to receive the Soviet statement at the Foreign Ministry.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Kremlin
Rodion Malinovsky
U.S
Andrei A. Grechko
United States
Kennedy
Cuba
United States of America
United Nations
Fay Kohler
Foreign Ministry
U.N. Security Council Calls Urgent Cuba Weapons Demand
The U.N. Security Council was summoned for an urgent 2 p.m. meeting to discuss the U.S. demand for withdrawal of offensive weapons from Cuba. The session follows a Cuba complaint accusing the United States of an act of war by ordering a naval blockade of arms shipments to Cuba.
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N. Y
U.N. Security Council
U.S
Valerian Z. Zorin
Adlai E. Stevenson
Cuba
United States
Kennedy
Red Chinese Push Indians Back Near Towang
New Delhi reports Chinese Communist forces widened a bridgehead in northeast India and threaten the monastic town of Towang. Chinese troops pushed Indian soldiers back seven to eight miles east of Brutan and attacked near Bum Pass, with ongoing but unchanged fighting elsewhere on the Himalayan border.
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India
Towang
Indian Defense Ministry
Brutan
Bum Pass
OAS backs Kennedy quarantine plan for Cuba
Mexico and Brazil support the U S proposal as the Organization of American States moves to an emergency basis. Bolivia and Uruguay abstain while voicing concern. Secretary Rusk urges unity to prevent Cuban weapons from expanding Soviet influence in the hemisphere.
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Cuba
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Iimar Penna Marinho
Brazil
OAS
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Uruguay
Dean Rusk
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