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Cuban Russian confab...Cuban ambassador Mario Garcia Inchaustegui (second from left), and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin (right), confer with their aides after a late session of the UN Sec Council 24th October. Acting UN Secretary General U Thant made a public appeal in the Security Council 24th October to Pres Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev requesting that they refrain from any action on the Cuban crisis for a two-week period...25 October 1962 (KEYSTONE/United Archives / TopFoto/)