Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Pana 7:15 am EDT musi waOctober 25, USS Essex uye USS Gearing vakaedza kuvhara Bucharest asi vakakundikana kuita kudaro. Vachinyatsogutsikana kuti ngarava yacho yakanga isina zvinhu zvechiuto, US yakaibvumira kuti ipfuure nepakati pokudzivirira. Gare gare zuva iroro, na5:43 pm, mutungamiri wekudzivirira akaudza muparadzi USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. kuti apinde uye apinde muchikepe cheLebanese cheMarucla. Izvozvo zvakaitika zuva rakatevera racho, uye Marucla akabudiswa mumusasa wacho pashure pokunge mutoro wayo waongororwa. Na5:00 masikati EDT musi waOctober 25, William Clements akazivisa kuti zvombo zvehondo muCuba zvakanga zvichiri kushanda zvakasimba. Mushumo iwoyo wakazosimbiswa nomumwe weCIA uyo wakaratidza kuti kwakanga kusina kunonoka kupi nokupi. Mukupindura, Kennedy akabudisa Security Action Memorandum 199, ichibvumira kutakurwa kwezvombo zvenyukireya mundege dzaitungamirirwa neSACEUR, dzaiva nebasa rokutanga kurwisa Soviet Union. Mukati mezuva, vaSoviet vakapindura kudziviswa kwacho kupfurikidza nokudzorera kumashure ngarava 14 idzo dzaifungidzirwa kuva dzaitakura zvombo zvinorwisa.  Mubvunzo: Ndiani akaongorora kugadzirwa kweMissiles muCuba?
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