Photos: Cuban missile crisis turns 50
In London, protesters stage a sit-in against war over the Cuban missile crisis Oct. 24, 1962.
The world marks the 50th anniversary this month of a deal to end the high-stakes US-USSR standoff that avoided nuclear disaster.
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