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...Administration is most worried about Senator Scoop Jackson. The Washington Democrat was the bane of Henry Kissinger's existence during earlier SALT debates, and now, in a truly bipartisan spirit, he is marshaling his formidable technical expertise and political power to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as much trouble, if not more. As chairman of the Senate's arms-control subcommittee, Jackson has heard testimony on SALT II from a parade of high-level witnesses, and he has not liked what he has heard. In one subcommittee session, Jackson treated Vance in a way that one shaken...
...Friday morning, Carter met with Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Oval Office for an hour and 25 minutes. They confronted three options: go ahead with the trip, 'cancel it, or postpone it until late December or early January, before Congress reconvenes. They settled on the third option, recognizing that because of the difficulty in lining up so many heads of state, Carter might have to visit the nine nations in two separate journeys...
...State Department, which had objected to FBI tactics in the past, was particularly displeased by the timing of the Lusis case. Soviet-American relations were deteriorating dangerously. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his advisers were regrouping after their disastrous week in Moscow in March and preparing to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva in May. The U.S.S.R. desk at State argued strenuously that the FBI'S proposed blackmail attempt threatened to jeopardize Soviet-American relations at the worst possible time. The CIA supported State, noting it had nothing in its files to indicate Lusis...
Indeed, the signs of appreciation in Washington were almost instantaneous. After months of disappointments in his negotiations with the Russians, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance greeted Brezhnev's announcement as a "major step forward" and predicted that it would have a "useful effect" on the comprehensive test-ban negotiations that have been under way in Geneva since last July...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the U.S., which has observed the 1963 voluntary arms embargo, will extend that policy to cover all previously exempt police and military equipment, including spare parts and maintenance gear. In addition, said Vance, as evidence of "our national concern" over "the regrettable recent steps" taken by South Africa, the U.S. will withdraw the naval attache from its embassy in Pretoria and recall the commercial officer from its consulate in Johannesburg...