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The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis < Previous Page | Calendar | Next Page > THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 Click on thumbnail images to display a larger picture. View a Reading List on the Missile Crisis |
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Soviet freighters turn and head back to Europe. The Bucharest, carrying only petroleum products, is allowed through the quarantine line. U.N. Secretary General U Thant calls for a cooling off period, which is rejected by Kennedy because it would leave the missiles in place. Left: Knowing that some missiles in Cuba were now operational, the president personally drafts a letter to Premier Khrushchev, again urging him to change the course of events.
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During the debate in the Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronts his Soviet U.N. counterpart Valerian Zorin with photographic evidence of the missiles. Left: Much public debate between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in the halls of the United Nations
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