Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bypassed Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and put Vice President Walter Mondale in charge of an economic review. But Mondale is not particularly well informed on the subject and has been spending most of his time campaigning for the President. Carter has split foreign policy between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Brzezinski. Until recently, whoever got in the last word often influenced Carter's decision. But Vance has declined in favor, partly because Carter seems to regard him as too mild and conciliatory toward the Soviets. Yet Brzezinski has not assumed power, for Carter mistrusts his emotionalism...
...release for at least a month. Privately, some American diplomats feared that the deal had fallen through. But the official U.S. posture, as one State Department expert put it, was that "everything that was supposed to happen is happening." In a press conference last week, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance insisted once again that "the commission's mission is twofold: to hear the Iranian grievances and also to bring about the speedy release of the hostages and thus bring an end to the crisis...
...week of turmoil and confusion began in a spirit of considerable optimism. On Monday, Feb. 18, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance slipped quietly into Manhattan and closeted himself at the U.N. for 6½ hours, obtaining from Waldheim what he thought were assurances of the commission's key elements. Vance insisted, for example, that the panel would not sit as a court, hold a trial or reach a verdict. Yes, Waldheim assured him, Tehran understood that. Vance persisted, saying that he would feel better if it were on paper. The Secretary-General said that he would get the terms...
...trip had been so hastily put together that there was not even a firm itinerary on the day of departure. But for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, organizing a precise travel schedule was the least of his worries. With the Western alliance in disarray over its response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Vance shuttled his way through four European capitals last week in an attempt to win support for the activist U.S. position...
...Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt issued a joint statement strongly condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Three days later, Paris abruptly declared that it would not be represented at a German-sponsored meeting of Western European foreign ministers with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Bonn. Once again, France stood out as seemingly arrogant and as the ally least disposed to back Washington in an international crisis...