You would think the soviets in 1960 would be wanting to display all of their biggest missiles, right, all of their finest weaponry as a show of force against the dreaded United States. It was an incredibly intense time for u. S. soviet relations. But there was this moment back in 1960 when the president of the United States at the time, dwight eisenhower, and the leader of the soviet union at the time, nikita khrushchev, they did in 1960, did for a while seem like they were trying to thaw relations between our two countries. And to that end, those two leaders had planned to meet in paris for a oneonone superpower summit in 1960. A meeting to talk face to face, man to man, about relations between our two countries. These two cold war enemies. That meeting was supposed to take place two weeks after that parade. That summit meeting in paris never happened. The reason it never happened is because on the same day as this peacethemed may day parade in moscow, on may 1st, 1960, an american u2
Getting americans out on commercial flights. Officials today said driving them out under the cover the two f16s and several v22 aircraft end with a destroyer in the mediterranean was the best approach available. With me now is cnn military analyst lieutenant Mark Hertling and cnn correspondent Barbara Starr. Reporter good morning, michael. It was about a five or six hour mission to drive the americans out of tripoli, libya and across the border into tunisia. The state department this morning making the case that the u. S. Embassy in libya is not shutdown. Their mission will continue from other locations, but make no mistake, the embassy complex is shuttered now. At least temporarily until and if the security situation in that country improves. What happened over the last several days is the shelling by rival militias in that area, which is close to the airport, had intensified. It had become the new frontline. The airport shutdown due to shelling, virtually destroyed and shelling happe
For martha maccallum. President condemning the brutal execution of Steven Sotloff, calling it barbaric. But there are questions whether he nailed down a strategy to fight these terrorists. Bill ed henry traveling with the president from estonia. The president used Strong Language with regard to these islamic terrorists then steamed alter the lang tbhaijt next answer. What did he say . Reporter he started out strong saying this was barbaric and confirmed the videotape is authentic and the second american journalist behead in such a gruesome fashion. As was pressed about strategy this was all about the president trying to clean up last Thursdays Press Conference where he said there was no strategy in isis. Now you have white house aides trying to clarify the president s clarification because he gave two vastly different answers. Our objective is clear to degrade and destroy isil thats a threat to not just iraq but also to the region and the United States. We can continue to shrink isils
Missile crisis. You would think the soviets in 1960 would be wanting to display all of their biggest missiles, right, all of their finest weaponry as a show of force against the dreaded United States. It was an incredibly intense time for u. S. soviet relations. But there was this moment back in 1960 when the president of the United States at the time, dwight eisenhower, and the leader of the soviet union at the time, nikita krush chauf, they did in 1960, did for a while seem like they were trying to thaw relations between our two countries. And to that end, those two leaders had planned to meet in paris for a oneonone superpower summit in 1960. A meeting to talk face to face, man to man, about relations between our two countries. These two cold war enemies. That meeting was supposed to take place two weeks after that parade. That summit meeting in paris never happened. The reason it never happened is because on the same day as this peacethemed may day parade in moscow, on may 1st, 196
Display all of their biggest missiles, right, all of their finest weaponry as a show of force against the dreaded United States. It was an incredibly intense time for u. S. soviet relations. But there was this moment back in 1960 when the president of the United States at the time, dwight eisenhower, and the leader of the soviet union at the time, nikita khrushchev, they did in 1960, they did for a while seem like they were trying to thaw relations between our two countries. And to that end, those two leaders had planned to meet in paris for a oneonone superpower summit in 1960. A meeting to talk face to face, man to man, about relations between our two countries. These two cold war enemies. That meeting was supposed to take place about two weeks after that may day parade. That summit meeting in paris never happened. And the reason it never happened is because on the same day as this peacethemed may day parade in moscow, on may 1st, 1960, an american u2 spy plane on a Reconnaissance Mi