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Carter had promised throughout the campaign to bring new blood to his Cabinet. Jordan, Carter's campaign manager, even went so far as to tell Playboy magazine that if Cyrus Vance was named Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski was appointed head of the National Security Council, "then I would say we failed, and I'd quit...
...While peace-conference moderators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen searched for ways to stop such a partition, the U.N. Security Council voted to create a war-crimes commission that will gather evidence of atrocities in former Yugoslavia. The U.N. also voted to impose a ban on military flights over Bosnia to stop Serb air strikes, but it did not authorize enforcement of the ban. President Bush had offered to enforce the no-fly zone with U.S. planes, but France and Britain feared that if a Serb plane were shot down, their ground troops in Bosnia would be vulnerable to revenge...
...this is to get ahead of things, for the immediate task facing South Africans is to reestablish some trust between the parties and to convince the ANC to rejoin negotiations. A United Nations delegation headed by Cyrus Vance came to South Africa in early August with an eye to jump-start talks on the constitution...
...broader tasks become crucial as winter approaches with a cold promise of more agony for civilians pinned down in Sarajevo, Goradze and other towns in the war-torn republic. But movement toward an end to the hostilities remains fitful at best. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, co-chairmen of the peace conference on + Yugoslavia, were encouraged that leaders of all three Bosnian factions agreed to meet in Geneva this week. With the spirit of compromise long since bludgeoned by atrocities on all sides, however, no agreement at the table is likely...
...formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...