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Carter then proceeded to outline in detail an ambitious agenda for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's talks with Brezhnev in Moscow this week (see THE WORLD). Said Carter: "We don't know whether or not we'll be successful at all. But we go in good faith, with high hopes...
...thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...arms of both sides." Even Oleg Troyanovsky, chief Soviet delegate, applauded. At the same time, Carter continued to give hell to the Russians for their violation of human rights (see THE WORLD) and tried to separate this issue from disarmament. Whether such a separation is possible, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may find out as he heads for Moscow at week's end in a distinctly strained atmosphere...
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has justified America's emergency aid to Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's president, on the grounds that the Katangese rebels now threatening Zaire's stability are actually fighting for Angola, but he has offered no evidence of such outside interest. Certainly the Katangese have long found a haven in Angola, but the Katangese secessionist movement is a longstanding internal struggle in Zaire. In that context, the aid to Mobutu seems to be simply giving support to a corrupt regime that was installed in a U.S.-inspired military takeover and has little support in the countryside...
...Disarmament Agency. Warnke will bring to his new responsibilities a freshness of perspective on defense matters not seen in Washington for years, and if his cool performance before the antagonistic Senate Armed Services Committee is any indication, he will be an open-minded but tough negotiator when he and Cyrus Vance travel to Moscow later this year. Carter's appointment and the Senate's confirmation of Warnke are the first steps in what could be a successful effort to exercise a long-awaited restraint on the production of nuclear weapons...