That would have seemed even weaker, especially right before the mid-term elections. ... And then a U-2 was shot down over Cuba on Saturday October 27th. ... Horror by Khrushchev because he knew we would immediately think he had ordered the plane shot down, and horror by the Kennedy administration that they would have to figure out what to do about it. ... Earlier in the week the EXCOMM had chosen a contingency plan in the event that a U-2 was shot down; bomber and fighter planes would destroy a surface-to-air missile site [p.36]. ...

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In 1951 he began campaigning to become a congressman when a local senator, Senator Chibas, shot himself and died. ... By the mid-1970's, Cuba was receiving over half of all Soviet foreign aid. ...

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