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During the talks Carter will have at his side only Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; the other leaders will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
Here and there, however, there are signs that the full burden of national power is beginning to have impact. Attorney General Griffin Bell is plainly appalled these days at the monastic life he must lead to do all the work before him. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is obviously a more cautious and thoughtful man after his encounter with the Soviets in Moscow. The White House men like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell still stand aloof from Washington, suspicious of its protocols, staggered by its costs, confusion and hypocrisy. Now and then Carter himself seems on the verge of discouragement...
Administration officials explained they wanted to go slow until the Kremlin had been given adequate warning of the U.S.'s intention to act tough. Another reason for White House caution was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's presence in Moscow during part of the period when the Coast Guard wanted to strike. It would have been diplomatically unwise to risk embarrassing the Kremlin at the very moment when Vance was trying to revive the long-stalled SALT negotiations. The U.S., however, did warn the Soviet embassy in Washington that "future violations [by Russian vessels] would make their ships...
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance settled into a rocking chair in his hideaway study on the seventh floor of the State Department and discussed the Moscow SALT talks with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden. Vance angrily denied that Soviet-American relations were now at their lowest point in years, stoutly defended the Administration 's "public diplomacy" and stressed that much in fact had been accomplished at the Moscow meeting. Excerpts from the interview...
...President," was overthrown by General Fulgencio Batista and charged with corruption. To oust Batista, Prio Socarrás helped finance Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover, but later broke with him, attacking his "Communist tyranny." A leader of Miami's Cuban exiles, he met with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in February to voice opposition to U.S. détente with Cuba. · Died. Edward J. Barrett, 77, powerful Illinois Democratic factotum for four decades until his 1973 federal conviction for bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion; in Chicago. Barrett, who served as Illinois State Treasurer and Secretary...