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...Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded stock market took off like a Concorde, but Carter was informed that his tax-reform program was doomed. And in Moscow, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was trying to make progress toward a SALT treaty that some Senators openly promised to reject...
Laughter rippled down the banquet table at a government guesthouse in Lenin Hills on the outskirts of Moscow last week following Gromyko's circumlocutory sally. Every one of the 75 Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko...
...Better to jaw-jaw than war-war." So argued British Foreign Secretary David Owen, quoting the Churchillian maxim at the conclusion of the latest Anglo-American mission to southern Africa. The future of Rhodesia was as uncertain as ever last week as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance completed his quick visit to Dar es Salaam, Pretoria and Salisbury and headed for Moscow. But Vance and his colleagues took comfort in the fact that the negotiating process was still alive. Moreover, the mission may have helped refine the Anglo-American strategy for trying to solve the Rhodesian mess...
...revitalizing the State Department's neglected bureaucracy, Cyrus Vance has delegated considerable authority to his top-ranking deputies. But he has also established around him a select circle of six, whose help he especially seeks, regardless of their official titles...
Before leaving Washington for Africa and the Soviet Union, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sat down over breakfast with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden to talk about himself and the Carter Administration's foreign policy. The two-hour interview in the antiques-filled James Madison Room atop the State Department Building ended when Vance had to rush off for a final pre-Moscow meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Excerpts...