Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examine the hostages. Some $2.2 billion in Iranian gold and currency had been transferred from New York to London so that it could be turned over to Iran within minutes of the Americans' departure from Tehran. A 30-member U.S. hostage recovery team, including former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, was ready in Washington to fly to West Germany to meet the released hostages at a U.S. military hospital. Carter also considered going to West Germany to welcome the Americans...
...National Security Adviser seemed intent on humiliating him. Brzezinski stuck so close to Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq that Christopher did not even have a chance to present the Pakistani ruler with the official U.S. gift. While Brzezinski clowned and traded quips with the press, Christopher, whose boss, Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have been the building blocks of Christopher's career. Those qualities, say admirers, have made him an ideal chief...
...gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm the riots in Detroit and Washington brought him into close contact with Lyndon Johnson's personal envoy, Cyrus Vance...
...hopes and the nation's self-respect. Why had three of eight Sea Stallion helicopters failed? What was wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised act of desperation? Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed any military rescue attempt from the beginning, resigned. Carter replaced him with Senator Edmund Muskie. In Iran, Ayatullah Khalkhali crowed over Carter's defeat, as authorities with knives picked at the bodies of the dead American raiders before television cameras. Iran and the U.S. haggled...
...self-effacing as he says when he is surrounded by so many temptations to exercise power? His task may be eased by the fact that he does not seem to have any sharp policy differences with Haig, in contrast to Brzezinski's disagreements with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. But Allen's proximity to the President, and the institutional momentum of his strategically placed post, may inevitably push him into the very prominence he wants to avoid. -By Edwin Warner. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Washington and Douglas Brew with Reagan