Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...soon clear that Young had become too great a liability for a White House that has been striving to demonstrate that it is capable of national leadership. Not only had Young's deception gravely embarrassed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but the meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed...
...Palestinians' legitimate political rights. Such phraseology would merely align the language of 242 with the Camp David accords, and Carter Administration officials doubted that it could lead to an imminent U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue. Still, such a diplomatic flirtation jolted the Israeli government. So did U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's warning last week that Israel may have violated a 1952 military aid agreement by using American-supplied jets in raids on southern Lebanon...
...admit him to South Africa at all was cause for astonishment. Though Pretoria denied that he had ever been blacklisted. Jackson said he had been turned down for a visa several times in recent years. This time he said he had turned to President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to support his visa application. Said one Pretoria government spokesman of the decision to allow him entry: " We considered we had little to lose. South Africa couldn't be worse than all things the Rev. Jackson has been saying about it all these years...
...Asia, he was a Moscow correspondent in the early 1970s for United Press International, and later for TIME. Before taking over the White House assignment last February, he had been TIME'S State Department correspondent, a beat that involved travel to four continents with Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance. But last week's events constituted, he said, "the most fascinating few days I've spent as a journalist...