...against all vessels carrying offensive weapons destined for Cuba. 7 The chief justification given was the "urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base by the presence of ... clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction" the effect of which was to constitute "an...

...October 22 speech described the "urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base—by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction." In addition, the president emphasized that the buildup "contradicts the repeated assurances of Soviet...

...world announcing the missile sites and describing the American response. Here was the central message: "This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this nation and hemisphere, the Joint Resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...Hemisphere, ranging as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru. In additionjet bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons are now...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of i947, the traditions of this nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction," Kennedy asserted in his speech of October 2.2., "constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this nation and hemisphere, the Joint Resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than 1 ,000 nautical miles. Each of these missiles, in short,...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purposes of these bases can be none other than to provide a...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this nation and Hemisphere, the Joint Resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...completed appear to be designed for intermediate range ballistic missiles — capable of travel' ing more than twice as far — and thus capable of striking...flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this Nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the...

...it?" Kit asked. "Cuba," Saul said. The transformation ofCuber into an important strategic base, bv the presence of these large, long,range and clearly...offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction, constitutes a threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. He had that air he always seemed to Kit to...

...during the Cuban Missile crisis. On 22 October 1962, President Kennedy notified the public that: 'the urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic...explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas'.212 NATO also found the that activities of the Yugoslav army, such as the repression of ethnic...