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...borders but around the world. Awakened at his Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch with the news at 3:20 a.m., President Reagan dispatched a message of condolence that expressed his wish for "genuine cooperation with the Soviet Union to make the world better." Said former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "A change of leadership in Russia is always a political turning point, and our policies and actions toward them can affect the direction in which the Soviets move...
...sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower to put out the fire...
...ineffectual economic sanctions in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. But the Soviets have come to take Reagan at his word. Says a Kremlin specialist on American affairs: "With Carter, it was always interesting to read a speech and say, 'Aha, [former Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance wrote this one' or 'Here's a paragraph from [Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew] Brzezinski.' But we have done what you might call content analysis of Reagan's statements over the past couple of years, and we feel quite sure that the man speaking was Reagan." To Soviet ears...
...country. Comprised of industrialists, academies and a labor unionist, the commission was chaired by Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas its principle advisors included G.A. Coastanzo vice chairman of the board of Citibank: William Sneath, chairman of the board of Union Carbide Corporation: former secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vancez and Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador in the United Nations...
...country. Comprised of industrialists, academics and a labor unionist, the commission was chaired by Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas. Its principal advisors included G.A. Costanzo, vice chairman of the board of Citibank: William Sneath, chairman of the board of Union Carbide Corporation: former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance; and Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations...