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Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were already considering an increased Israeli allotment as a "sweetener," apparently took the cue. On Tuesday Vance offered to allot 20 more F-15s (worth $16 million each) to Israel, in exchange for approval of the Saudi deal. This moved New York Senator Jacob Javits, a key Jewish spokesman, to remark, "I believe we're on a road which could lead to a settlement." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker and Illinois Republican Charles Percy switched to Carter's side. The same day, Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown iterated...
...comforting to read the story on our Secretary of State Cyrus Vance [April 24]. It is good to know that someone in Washington doesn't consider the ship of state a rowboat...
Testifying last week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance warned that "failure to proceed with the sales will seriously undercut the American role in the peace process and raise grave doubts about U.S. readiness to work with moderate governments in the region." General David Jones, acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured the committee that the F-15s would be equipped for defense. Israel, he insisted, would be in greater danger if Saudi Arabia turned to France for Mirage Fl fighters, which are better suited for ground attack...
...congressional approval for all three sales−or, if necessary, to end up with no sales at all. But some lawmakers objected to his tactics. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who will be the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that the "linking" of the three items "violates the intent and spirit of congressional review procedure...
With U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in the middle of his mission to Moscow and with the revived SALT negotiations under way, neither the Americans nor the Russians seemed eager to make too much of the incident. Next day the Soviet government, which does not have diplomatic relations with Seoul, invited the U.S. to send a civil airliner to Murmansk to pick up the Korean plane's passengers and crew...