Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counterrevolutionary movements that might seek to overthrow governments, to terminate any such aid currently being given, and not to allow their territories to be used for subverting other governments." American signatories of the panel's report included former Cabinet officers Robert McNamara, Elliot Richardson, Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance; such business leaders as Banker David Rockefeller and Time Inc. Chairman Ralph Davidson; and retired Air Force General David Jones, who until last June was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...diplomatic correspondent cannot take official statements at face value and cannot be satisfied with remaining one step behind the heads of state. By reading officials' minds instead of accepting their statements, Karen Elliott House scooped the world and became the first journalist to report then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's invitation to Begin and Sadat to come to the United States for peace talks. The talks later became known as the Camp David Summit...
Myrdal's efforts have made her a darling of antinuclear circles. In 1980 she received the inaugural Albert Einstein Peace Prize in New York City, an award presented by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Last year Norwegian pacifist organizations raised funds to give her a special People's Peace Prize to protest her having been overlooked by the Nobel Committee. Says Myrdal of her 1982 Nobel award: "The prize money will come in handy to support the peace campaign...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., I met for two hours with Begin, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski were with me. We sat around a table in a small cottage named Holly. Everyone had read the Egyptian document. Begin was now excited and irate about the tone and substance of the document. "This smacks of a victorious state dictating peace to the defeated!" he said. "This document is not a proper basis for negotiations...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Cy is a good man and was a fine Secretary. I thought...