Show Kennedy Orders Quarantine On Cuba I Seven-Point Program Outlined By President By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL OCT 22 President Kennedy disclosed Monday in a nationwide speech that Russian arms have turned Cuba into a clearly offensive base capable of delivering destruction into the heart of To halt the buildup in the President ordered a seven-step including a strict quarantine on all shipments of offensive military equipment to munitions and troops were being moved into position in the southeastern United States as Kennedy announced the KENNEDY SAID the quarantine meant that ships of any kind bound for from whatever nation or if found to contain cargoes of offensive be turned As one of his the President warned Russia that the United States would respond with an attack on the Soviet Union if a nuclear missile is launched from Cuba against this nation or any other country in the Western He said the U.S. did not want war with Russia and called on Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to halt reckless and provocative to He said it was Khrushchev's chance to move the world back from abyss of As for the American he said their government had embarked on a and dangerous He said no one could forsee the or that might be incurred in the months of sacrifice and self that lie OTHER IMPORTANT steps ordered by Kennedy include a continued and increased surveillance of Cuba and its Russian-supplied military buildup with orders to the Armed Forces to for any reinforcement of the U.S. Naval Base at and a call for an immediate emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council take action against this latest Soviet threat to world The President said a U.S. resolution would call the dismantling and withdrawal of all defensive weapons in under the supervision of U.N. before the quarantine can be THE DEFENSE department said foreign ships would be searched and if to enforce-the which will become fully effective in a day or Officials said action also would be taken against any aircraft thought to be carrying The showdown should come relatively A defense department spokesman said a Soviet bloc convoy already was in the North Atlantic to Cuba and propose to search He did not say how soon they were expected to reach the The Pentagon also produced photographs which it said showed Soviet-manned missiles aimed at the U.S. from Cuban The spokesman said it was inconceivable that they were not armed with nuclear At Colorado the North American Air Defense Command increased its security Officials said no special alert was ordered but that air defense planes are on alert 24 hours a day around the Moscow reports said Kennedy's action was expected to bring a sharply critical reaction from the But Western observers in the Soviet capital expected the Russians to move cautiously in any attempt to run the arms IT WAS believed the first Soviet move would be to mount a major propaganda campaign aimed at picturing the U.S. in the eyes of the world as a hysterical giant threatening a smaller In the Fidel Castro regime reacted to the President's orders by putting its armed forces on an It also ordered Cuban radio stations into continuous presumably to keep its troops and people informed of any military WHO conferred with the nation's three living ex-presidents also sent a let ter to Khrushchev informing him of the U.S. action against In explaining how Kennedy's orders would be carried the Pentagon spokesman said that will face He said U.S. forces throughout the including the Strategic Air Command and can units in were on a step-ped-up |