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Reeling slightly, the Shah sought refuge behind a white pocket handkerchief. The Empress, standing behind him, fumbled in her purse for dark glasses. Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, eyes streaming, covered their faces. Only Carter, still speaking, refused to flinch. Tears rolled out of the President's eyes, but he made no move to wipe them. Recovering his composure when it was his turn to speak, the Shah thanked Carter for "your very warm welcome," and the official party quickly retreated to the White House. Out on Pennsylvania Avenue, it took police another hour...
...course of his second Middle East swing last August, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met with Sadat at the presidential rest house in Alexandria. There he broke some discouraging news. Vance, who was sounding out Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan on ways to resume the recessed Geneva conference, told Sadat that Jerusalem had many serious misgivings and did not appear eager for a Geneva meeting this year. Menachem Begin's government was adamantly opposed to a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at negotiations. By fostering new settlements on the West Bank, the Israeli government had made clear that it would...
...very optimistic," says Cyrus Booker, returning after a year off from Harvard basketball. "Frank keeps practice moving and everyone's attitude is real good. Everyone is working real well...
William Hyland calls himself a "faceless bureaucrat." But one of the few warm moments during Cyrus Vance's otherwise chilly visit to Moscow last March came when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev recognized Hyland, a senior staff member of the National Security Council, as the only familiar face on the other side of the negotiating table. Brezhnev and his comrades had been dealing with Hyland since 1969, and Hyland had been scrutinizing the Soviet leadership for 15 years before that. His career as a Kremlinologist has spanned six administrations and carried him to the upper echelons...
...only Spanish leftist stumping in the U.S. Felipe González, 35, leader of the Socialist Workers Party, whose 28.5% of the vote in the June elections far surpassed the Communists' slim 9%, will be in Washington for talks with Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. No officials have invited Carrillo for a chat...