Word: cyrus
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...meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss preferred to deal with Washington through Moscow's ambassador, Anatoli Dobrynin. But Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance informed the Kremlin that Toon was a necessary channel for private negotiations with Brezhnev. And in mid-June, when Carter sent Brezhnev a letter proposing a summit, Carter hinted that unless Brezhnev received Toon, Carter would refuse to meet with Dobrynin. So Washington professed to take some satisfaction from Brezhnev...
They spent one hour and 20 minutes with Carter and his foreign policy formulators, including Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Worried by Administration declarations about what Israel might have to give up in exchange for peace, the Jewish leaders sought -and gained-reassurances from Carter. Said one: "He was so forthcoming that he allayed some of our concerns...
...Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has let it be known that the sensitive and secretive Kremlin is furious about Carter's public approach to diplomacy. In Brezhnev's view, Carter's "ideological warfare" on human rights is hostile to detente. It appears Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance miscalculated when they reasoned earlier this year that their human rights offensive need not impede arms negotiations with the Soviets. Official Washington is gloomy about the prospects for a new SALT treaty by Oct. 3, when the present five-year treaty expires. As Carter candidly told a group...
Disillusionment began only a month after Carter's inauguration, when, during Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to the Middle East, the U.S. announced that it would bar sales to other countries of Israel's Kfir jets with American-built engines. The White House also canceled a shipment of concussion bombs promised to Israel by the Ford Administration. Vance came home convinced that the Arabs were more flexible than the Israelis, and he said so. In meetings with Middle East leaders, Carter got on famously with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King...
...privately to Carter as "the missionary." His conduct-his human rights pronouncements, his visions of global disarmament, his policy of dispensing aid and arms according to his measure of the rectitude of various societies-sometimes does seem more emotional than practical. Add to that Rosalynn's and Secretary Cyrus Vance's Latin American entreaties on human rights and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young's thunder against white governments, past and present, and there are days when it seems we are getting nothing so much as a sermon...