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...centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His stand is popular at home; abroad it has won admiration mixed with puzzlement and even indignation. The policy ran into two major tests last week at diplomatic meetings more than 5,000 miles apart. In Grenada, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found himself defending the Administration's criticism of human rights violations by various Latin American governments against a chorus of officials who argued that terrorism is more of a menace (see following story). In Belgrade, differences between the Kremlin and the White House over human rights abuses...
...Kremlinologists note that the CIA failed to anticipate the sharp Soviet rejection of President Carter's sweeping arms-limitation proposals, carried to Moscow by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (the State Department itself should have foreseen this). Nor did the agency predict the political demise last month of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Carter was annoyed at the CIA's failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation...
...that intricate issue. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young pushed the same cause -in his inimitable fashion-during a 20,000-mile, eight-nation tour. (He also managed to outrage Russians, Swedes and residents of the New York borough of Queens with comments about their "racist" attitudes.) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reported progress toward a new arms-limitation agreement after meeting Soviet negotiators in Geneva; this week he will present U.S. proposals for economic aid to developing nations at the Conference on International Economic Cooperation in Paris. After predicting that he would be a much less traveled Secretary than Kissinger, Vance...
...PUBLIC. In March, by revealing the U.S. negotiating position with considerable fanfare even before Cyrus Vance had his first meeting with Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter learned a vivid lesson in how not to deal with Moscow. The Soviets are conservative and secretive; they publicize the workings of government only for purposes of propaganda. Nor do they appreciate or even understand the Western practice of leaking information to the press...
...then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions and the preserver of the peace"). Amid the azaleas and tulips of his campus residence. Brewster was later sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The man who administered the oath of office: Cyrus Vance, his old friend and as Secretary of State, his new boss, who had interrupted his talks at Geneva to fly back at his own expense to watch his son Cyrus Vance Jr. graduate with the class...