61. Former President Arturo Frondizi, who tried to mend fences between Cuba and the United States before the Cuban missile crisis, died Tuesday of a heart ailment. 62. Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who served during the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam War, has died. 63. It was the year that Marilyn Monroe died, Nelson Mandela went to prison and the United States and the Soviet Union squared off in the Cuban missile crisis. 64. Maj. Gen. Daniel Callahan, a former NASA administrator and director of logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Cuban missile crisis, died Sunday. 65. Over the next two years, Lowe photographed Kennedy during such historic periods as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Cuban missile crisis. 66. That danger faded as a result of the settlement of the Cuban missile crisis and disappeared when the Soviet Union collapsed. 67. That feeling changed a year later in the showdown over the Cuban missile crisis. 68. The memorial was to have been held at the spot where Cuban missiles downed two Brothers to the Rescue planes a week ago. 69. The world held its breath when Kennedy ordered Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle Cuban missile sites aimed at the United States. 70. The world is facing the most serious threat of nuclear conflict since at least the Cuban missile crisis, an Australian parliamentary report released Friday warns. |
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