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Article: U.S., Cuban leaders to hold retrospective on Cuban missile crisis.(Chicago Tribune)
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- October 10, 2002
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HAVANA _ Forty years ago, Cuba was ground zero in a superpower standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
But Friday in Havana, and throughout the weekend, former top American officials and their Cuban counterparts who played a key role in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis will revisit the events not as enemies, but more as historians.
A series of seminars and newly released documents are expected to provide new details into how the crisis evolved, helping participants as they try to glean lessons from the confrontation.
Even before the participants arrived, the conference _ officially called "The October Crisis: A political vision ...