-DATE- 19920109 -YEAR- 1992 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Missile Crisis Meeting Activities Described -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Havana Tele Rebelde and Cuba Vision Networks -REPORT_NBR- FBIS-LAT-92-006 -REPORT_DATE- 19920109 -HEADER- ========================================================================== Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: FL0901025992 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-92-006 Report Date: 09 Jan 92 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 3 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 3 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 09 Jan 92 Report Volume: Thursday Vol VI No 006 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Havana Tele Rebelde and Cuba Vision Networks Report Name: Latin America Headline: Missile Crisis Meeting Activities Described Source Line: FL0901025992 Havana Tele Rebelde and Cuba Vision Networks in Spanish 0100 GMT 9 Jan 92 -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Today, the participants of the 1962 October Missile Crisis conference which will begin in Havana on 9 January, visited the monument that commemorates this event as the first activity of the meeting. The monument, which is located near the Morro-Cabanas complex, contains the fuselage of a Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missile. 2. The U.S. Administration of that time used as an excuse the deployment to Cuba of this kind of weaponry to ignite the crisis. The Soviet Union and Cuba adopted this decision when it became evident that Washington was preparing a direct attack against the island after the failed mercenary invasion of the Bay of Pigs, a year earlier. 3. General Sergio del Valle, representing Cuba; William Smith representing the United States; and Mikhail Titov representing the former Soviet Union; spoke at the site of the monument. This third tripartite conference has the same academic and private character as the conferences previously held in Moscow and Antigua. The conference will run through 12 January at the Palace of Conventions. -END-