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...meantime, the Security Council meeting on the Palestinians had been rescheduled for last week. To avert a showdown there, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had devised a plan to offer the U.N. a more moderate U.S. resolution that would speak of the Palestinians' human rights but not their right to an independent state. They sent Special Envoy Robert Strauss flying off to the Middle East, under strict, sealed instructions signed by Carter, to explain this plan to Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Finding them both...
There is a dangerous disarray these days in the management of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. When the State Department was compelled to deny formally that there was any split among Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Middle East Ambassador Robert Strauss, the statement only confirmed the continuing struggle among the three men. White House senior aides have been troubled for months about the infighting, but the President has helped both to create the problem and to nourish...
Donovan and the President agreed on three primary points: Donovan would report directly to the President (among White House staffers, only National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan now have that access); he would take no part in Carter's re-election campaign; and he would not be an image shaper for the President. Donovan said he had been "very impressed by the sincerity with which the President described his need and the country's need for the job. It was difficult to resist such an appeal put on the grounds of public service...
...nearly ten years ago in Helsinki, the atmosphere was frosty until a U.S. representative impulsively struck a match to light a cigarette for a Soviet negotiator. The tension eased, and Aaron, then a junior aide, has been making sparks ever since. Now, as deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, he exercises powerful influence in the White House. A moderate on U.S.-Soviet affairs...
...with foreigners are in the imperial court archives. We have asked for these documents and I would expect the truly explosive materials would be among them. [There is one] document in which former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Ardeshir Zahedi recorded the support of such prominent figures as [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [Henry] Kissinger, [Nelson] Rockefeller and Senators [Howard] Baker and [Abraham] Ribicoff for the Shah's move in setting up a military government in the fall...