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...sales continued, the week's peace negotiations−highlighted by Dayan's trip to Washington, to be followed by Begin's visit this week−resumed but made little headway. After nearly six hours of talks with Vance and 90 minutes with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dayan left the Administration with scant hope of a break in the diplomatic stalemate. At issue in the talks were the interpretation of an old document, U.N. Resolution 242, and the formulation of a new one, a declaration of principles to govern a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. The real...
...positions at the forums in which policy is decided. He does not hesitate to press his views on Carter in their daily telephone calls and frequent meetings when both are in Washington. He is especially vocal at the weekly Friday-morning foreign policy breakfasts attended by the President, Mondale, Brzezinski and Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan. It may be that Vance, who is renowned in Government for "leaving no footprints," relishes the fact that no one takes notes at the breakfasts. "It's the only federal forum I've known to be leakless," reports Mondale wryly...
...Vance persuaded Marshall Shulman, Columbia Sovietologist, to switch from a part-time consulting job at the State Department to a full-time post as the Secretary's adviser on Soviet affairs. Not coincidentally, the medium-soft-line Shulman serves as a kind of academic counterweight to the NSC's Brzezinski...
Carter appreciated these moves, and Vance's influence with him grew steadily. The President, however, still vacillates between the Vance and Brzezinski approaches to the Russians. Increasingly, Vance tends to prevail on the practical tactics to be taken in pursuing agreed-upon foreign policy goals...
...limitation issues with SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke; Leslie Gelb, director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Legal Adviser Herb Hansell, and Nimetz. Next in order came Dutch Foreign Minister Christoph van der Klaauw, CBS Correspondent Richard Hottelet, and a White House meeting on SALT between the President and Brzezinski. A 5 p.m. trip to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu concluded a typical business day. He manages to get home most evenings...