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...spokesman noncommittally described the talks as "businesslike." Next day they were "intensive." By the third day they were "worthwhile." In the artfully nuanced language of diplomacy, that signals progress. Indeed, a tender springtime bloom seemed to have returned to U.S.-Soviet relations as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko huddled last week in Geneva. Their meeting spanned a diplomatic climate more congenial to detente than the chill that had engulfed Vance's abortive mission to Moscow at the end of March...
...peace ?raises serious questions about how much there is to negotiate. Beyond that, there are questions about how long it will take Begin to form a government and, indeed, how long it might last. "We're just going to have to wait and see," said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Geneva. One of his advisers put it more bluntly: "It's a totally confused situation...
Middle East were urging Arab leaders to try to tone down the most vitriolic press reaction to Begin's victory on the ground that it is an unnecessary provocation. During an interlude in their negotiations on SALT, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed the Middle East and agreed that despite the uncertainties created by the Israeli election, a Geneva conference should be reconvened this year. They decided to initiate monthly consultations at the ambassadorial level in Washington and Moscow to underscore the two superpowers' shared commitment to a negotiated Middle East settlement...
...association has invited Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.N. general secretary Kurt Waldheim, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 to speak at the event, which is scheduled for the second week in June...
Following the Carter-Assad talks, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance briefed Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon in London. Allon expressed dismay at "the accumulating effect of various expressions by American leaders." Vance assured Allon that the U.S. was not planning to impose a solution on the Middle East, but merely wanted to "help facilitate" the process of peacemaking. Allon was not mollified. The Israelis fear that the President already has a peace plan clearly in mind-and that it calls for Israeli withdrawal from virtually all the occupied territory...