Volume 33, Number 17 · November 6, 1986
Looking Backward
By Ronald Steel
Thinking in Time:The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
by Richard E. Neustadt, by Ernest R. May
Free Press, 329 pp., $19.95
In late July 1979 Senator Richard Stone of Florida told President Carter of rumors that the Russians had combat troops in Cuba. If this was true, he said, it would violate agreements made after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Satellite photos confirmed that there were indeed Soviet units on the island. Carter, who at that point was trying to get the Senate to ratify the SALT II treaty he had just signed with the Russians, did not want to endanger the treaty's passage. He told Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to inform Stone that there was 'no evidence of any substantial increase of the Soviet military presence in Cuba.'
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