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Brzezinski, who returned in 1980 to his teaching post at Columbia University, engineered the aborted rescue of Iranian hostages and was instrumental in forcing out then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. He taught at Harvard for seven years during the 1950s...
...twelfth visit to the Soviet Union, filed his observations of the Soviet foreign policy process. He confesses to once having employed a small ruse in an effort to interview the close-mouthed Gromyko. During a 1978 Moscow meeting between the Soviet Foreign Minister and then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Talbott borrowed a camera and joined the photographers' pool. "When Gromyko came near," Talbott recalls, "I stepped forward, introduced myself and asked him a couple of questions. Gromyko's answer: 'Nice to meet you, but this is not a press conference...
...compliments are almost universal. Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has called Gromyko "a thoroughly professional practitioner of the diplomatic trade, a man of great skill and high intelligence." "I must say I am filled with admiration," says a Western ambassador who recently was face to face with Gromyko. "Here is a man of nearly 75 who is taking very good care of himself. And when he speaks, his mind is quick and he is a master of detail...
Kamilla Bren, Richard L. Callan, Paul Duke, Christopher J. Georges, Kristin A. Goss, Peter J. Howe, Holly A. Idelson, Rachel H. Inker, Rebecca R. Kramnick, Charles T. Kurzman, Jonathon S. Sapers, Cyrus M. Sanal and Melissa I. Weissberg contributed to the reporting for this article...
Although the festivities were not attractive enough to secure an appearance by President Reagan in 1981, dignitaries including Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and former secretary of state Cyrus Vance have addressed graduating classes...