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September 20, 2002.
Cuba exhibition draws Florida groups
Fri Sep 20, 3:20 Am Et. By Andrew Meadows,
ameadows@tampatrib.com. Yahoo! News.
TAMPA - Despite significant anti- Castro sentiment, Florida companies will
be well-represented at a huge agribusiness expo in Havana next week.
But the list of who's going remains secret.
"It's for economic, not political, reasons,'' said John Kavulich,
president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council Inc., which follows Cuban
trade and the expo. "They don't want their competitors to know.''
The four-day U.S. Food and Agribusiness Exhibition, which starts Thursday,
is expected to draw more than 20,000 visitors seeking to do business with Cuba .
Thirty-one of the 285 exhibitors are from Florida, the largest state
representation. The exhibition is sponsored by Illinois agribusiness giant
Archer Daniels Midland.
Full
story at Tampa Bay Online
Kennedy used photo evidence on Cuba
Fri Sep 20, 2:20 Am Et. By The Associated Press
 Where's
the evidence? The United States provided a graphic answer to that question on
Oct. 25, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis.
Three days earlier,
President Kennedy had declared a naval blockade of Cuba in response to the
discovery of Soviet-equipped strategic missile sites on the island. Washington
and Moscow were close to war.
"Within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact
that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation," Kennedy
said in a radio and TV address announcing the blockade. "The purpose of
these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability
against the Western Hemisphere."
The Soviets insisted they were helping Cuba with defensive weapons only.
The Pentagon let reporters see aerial photos that appeared to show strategic
missiles, launch pads and supply trailers on Cuban soil, but did not immediately
allow the pictures to be published. Then on Oct. 24, it released 14 photos to
the press.
A day later, in a continuing session of the U.N. Security Council, U.S.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson challenged Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A.
Zorin to deny that his country had placed offensive missiles and sites in Cuba.
"I am not in an American courtroom," Zorin replied dryly. "In
due course, sir, you will have your reply."
Stevenson said he was "prepared to wait for my answer until hell
freezes over, if that is your decision. I am also prepared to present evidence
in this room."
He had the aerial photos brought in and displayed. Zorin called them "forged"
and refused to look at them.
Three days later, the Soviets agreed to dismantle the bases and withdraw the
missiles. | 
