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Yale student groups supporting the university's striking maintenance workers will continue their efforts this weekend by asking Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, an officer of the Yale Corporation, to recommend a solution to the strike, and by backing the picketing of the Harvard-Yale game...
...Administration finally was working hard to achieve an outcome that would be successful from its perspective. Aides to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance could not suppress their laughter when their boss, appearing on TV's Meet the Press, stood a question on its head in order to insert a plug for Carter's energy program. Asked whether the President planned to visit Saudi Arabia during his nine-nation trip next month, Vance fairly pounced...
That was Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's version last week of his late-night discussion in New York City with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance about a new Geneva peace conference (TIME, Oct. 17). Dayan gave his harsh account of the talks-Washington insisted they were "direct," perhaps even "blunt," but far from "brutal"-during a Knesset debate on the working paper on Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting...
...Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement in principle on a formula that might, with a little bit of luck, allow the Geneva conference to meet this year after all. As Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy put it, "Things are moving." Or, in Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's somewhat more cautious formulation, they were "inching along...
Shuttle diplomacy, however, proved to have its limitations. By the time Cyrus Vance succeeded Kissinger as Secretary of State, all sides seemed ready for a comprehensive settlement. The Arabs realized that a return to Geneva offered the alternative to a war to recover occupied territories. The Israelis perceived it as the only way to obtain true peace. But what of the status of the Palestinians? Two years ago, the Brookings Institution, in a study report on the Middle East now famous as "the purple pamphlet," had called for an independent Palestinian state or entity as a possible solution. Among...