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As Robert Grave wrote about matadors-
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bull fight critics row upon row
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crowd the enormous plaza de toros.
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But, only one is there who knows
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and he is the one that fights the bull.
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These are the stills from
yesterday's over flight,
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Mr. President.
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They show 29 missile pads
in various stages of construction.
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They're building two types
of missiles down there,
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the 1,000 mile, medium-range,
mobile field weapons,
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which can be transported,
and the 2200 mile,
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intermediate missile,
which must be fired from fixed position.
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Both are first strike weapons.
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They will provide a launch capacity
in excess of 40 nuclear weapons.
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The Aleutian 28 Soviet bombers now being
assembled in Cuba
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can hit all of Florida
as far as Savannah, Pensacola,
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and parts of Central America.
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The medium-range missile
threatens one-third
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of the United States,
including Washington, DC, St. Louis,
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Dallas, Panama Canal,
and all of Central America.
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The intermediate-range missile capability
reaches nearly
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all of the United States,
southeastern Canada,
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and all of Mexico, Central America,
Panama Canal,
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and much of South America.
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Do we have any, hard
photographic evidence
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that the nuclear warheads
for these missiles
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are actually in Cuba?
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No, sir.
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Why not?
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They are comparatively small and easy
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to conceal, Mr. President,
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but you can rest assured
that they're there somewhere.
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How can I be certain?
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Those Soviet ICBM's are only compatible
with nuclear warheads.
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The Soviet Union this morning
successfully fired
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two multi-stage missiles 7500 miles
to bulls-eye landings
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in the central Pacific.
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An American high-altitude nuclear test
in the Pacific
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failed today for the fourth time
in five tries,