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...Cyrus Vance, who served as Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, said of the plan: "It is a bold stroke, and I totally support it. It is wholly consistent with Camp David. I sat through every meeting up there, and I know pretty clearly what took place." George Ball, a former Under Secretary of State and a persistent critic of the Begin government, lauds the Reagan proposals for "putting a kind of pressure on the Israelis either to go forward or to play the role of opposing the plan...
...negotiator while heading the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam from 1969 to 1971. He participated in many of Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttles, and was called back from retirement in 1979 to serve as special adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...
Others who have spoken in recent years include West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Sen Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.) and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Other Democrats in the forefront of those urging Reagan to accept SALT II are former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and John Glenn of Ohio and Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. To that chorus last week came an influential voice from the Republican side, Henry Kissinger. In a speech at The Hague, Vance and Muskie's predecessor as Secretary of State said of SALT II: "It seems to me a reasonable way to end the current impasse, establish a baseline for later reductions and end the agitation for quick fixes." Kissinger, who helped...