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    "The harder you and I pull, the tighter this knot wil! become," he writes. "You understand perfectly what dread forces our two countries possess," he adds. "Bid John F. Kennedy and the United States react within proper political and constitutional constraints"

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    "The harder you and I pull, the tighter this knot wil! become," he writes. "You understand perfectly what dread forces our two countries possess," he adds. "Bid John F. Kennedy and the United States react within proper political and constitutional constraints"

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    Document 12

    Personal Letter (Khrushchev to Kennedy)

    if you have not lost command of yourself and realize cieariy what this couid lead TO,
    then, Mr. President, you and I should not now pul! on the ends of the rope in which you
    had tied the knot of war. because the harder you and I pull, the tighter this knot wil!
    become. And a time may come when this knot is tied so tight that the person who tied it
    is no longer capable of untying it, and then the knot will have to be cut. What that
    would mean I need not explain to you, because you yourself understand perfectly what
    dread forces our two countries possess..."
    !2a. Explain the metaphor of the knot (noose).
    12b.What tone dose Khrushchev's take in the letter?

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    "bid John F. Kennedy and the United States react within proper political and constitutional
    constraints as they responded to Russia's military actions in Cuba?"

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