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Carter ended the summit with an open invitation to Begin to "call any time, any day." The next step in getting the parties to Geneva is up to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. He will start a ten-day trip to the Middle East on Aug. 1, stopping in five Arab states before visiting Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in Jerusalem. Vance's aides are worried about what kind of reception he will get in the Arab world. Said one U.S. official: "The problem with all this is how the Arabs will feel about it. Frankly, I think...
British Foreign Secretary David Owen concluded that Smith's call for elections had "killed off, for the time being," any chance of a negotiated settlement. At week's end he flew to Washington for discussions with U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but nobody expected another initiative right away. "What we need is a new idea," remarked a U.S. diplomat to an inquiring journalist. "If you ve got one, would you mind sending it over...
...desk in the Oval Office with a mark to the verse from Micah used in his Inaugural Address, in which the Hebrew sage admonishes the Lord's people "to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God." These days, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also keeps a Bible close by in his seventh-floor State Department office-next to a book that discusses Israeli borders and a map of the Middle East...
Carter got word of the tragedy while at a state dinner for visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The President remained at the party. But National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski rounded up Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and headed to the Situation Room of the White House to study possible U.S. responses. Joining the session an hour later, Carter ordered that the initial U.S. reaction be conciliatory. Thus Press Secretary Powell announced that "any penetration of North Korean airspace that may have taken place was unintentional and regrettable...
...will get a reward of 4,000 taels (Chinese ounces) of gold-worth about $556,000 in local currency. His main worry was that the wife and three children he left behind would now be persecuted. Fan expressed hope that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, on his trip to China next month, would ask Peking to let his family join him. It is unlikely that Vance will ask; it is less likely that Peking will say yes if he does...