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Begin decided to act early last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem on an eight-day Middle East trip. He told Vance that he wanted to go to Washington to discuss a new set of Middle East peace proposals with Carter. The surprised Vance swiftly forwarded the request. Within three hours the White House replied: Come ahead...
...most part, Arab diplomacy remained paralyzed by outrage and indecision, as Cyrus Vance discovered during his quick stopovers in six Middle East capitals. He had believed that Jordan's King Hussein would be amenable to joining the Cairo talks at a later stage. Instead, Vance found, the King was determined to remain an uncommitted moderating force, but would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view...
...written by Brzezinski back in the early days of the Administration. It is a finely honed reflection of Jimmy Carter's innermost thinking on the goals of U.S. foreign policy. None of the men who helped develop the Carter paper- Brzezinski, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance - will reveal its contents, other than to suggest that it is a distant vision of the world progress and tranquillity we all share. It is noteworthy that there is such a plan, but even more important that the men who have read it believe the Administration is moving...
Uneasy at the rapid pace of seemingly uncontrollable events, President Carter dispatched Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to the Middle East for the third time in ten months to use whatever influence he might have to bring the feuding Arabs together. One of Vance's main goals was to help prop up Sadat's plan for a pre-Geneva conference on the Middle East that is scheduled to begin at the Mena House hotel near Cairo this week. Originally, Sadat had envisioned the gathering as a meeting ground, where all interested parties would settle at least some...
Center Brian Banks started it off with two short jump shots. Next, forwards Cyrus Booker and Gary Ackerman got in on the act by trading a pair of lay-ups. Then the guards anted up their share; Rich Bengel hit for a pair of shots from downtown and Glen Fine...