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ROSWELL GILPATRIC, INSTRUMENTAL IN CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, DIES AT 89.(News/National/International)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960317
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Byline: Eric Pace The New York Times

Roswell L. Gilpatric, a New York City lawyer who played a pivotal role in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 while he was deputy secretary of defense, died Friday at his home in midtown Manhattan. He was 89.

The cause was prostate cancer, said Samuel Butler, the presiding partner in the law firm Cravath, Swain and Moore, where Gilpatric was presiding partner from 1966 until his retirement in 1977.

Gilpatric, who was born in Brooklyn, became a partner in the firm in 1940.

His clients included CBS, General Dynamics, Olin, and ...

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