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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance flew back from his five-day Middle East tour yesterday without gaining further Arab support for the Camp David accords...
AMAN, Jordan--Secretary of State Cyrus E. Vance met with Jordan's King Hussein yesterday, beginning a diplomatic effort to gain Jordanian and Saudi Arabian acceptance of the Camp David agreements...
...development followed President Carter's announcement Monday night that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will go to the Middle East to meet with the leaders of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to discuss the Camp David agreement. Hussein's decision to dissociate himself from those accords, however, will not change Vance's plans...
President Carter announced last night King Hussein of Jordan and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia have agreed to receive Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in meetings which may lead to their participation in upcoming Middle East negotiations...
...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...