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...undercover agents and methods. Since the publication of his 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, he and his collaborators have stripped the cover from hundreds of operatives, a few of whom were later mysteriously killed. Before Agee could board a plane to Tehran, however, then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance revoked his passport, thus keeping him in West Germany, his temporary home since 1978. Agee convinced two federal courts in Washington that Vance had exceeded his authority. But last week the Supreme Court, by 7 to 2, reversed both lower courts and upheld Vance...
...many, the answer was clearly no. The ever cautious and gentlemanly Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to brand the timing of Haig's announcement in Peking that the U.S. had agreed "in principle" to sell lethal weapons to China as "needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card...
...former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 55, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough, 58, Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, 61, Economist Marina von Neumann Whitman, 46, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 45, former State Department Official William Rogers, 54, Washington Post Columnist Philip Geyelin, 58, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord, 43, a former Kissinger prot...
...Commencement address has long been a highlight of our year-end activities. It was on this occasion that General George Marshall first announced the creation of the Marshall Plan after World War II. In the last three years, our speakers included Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and Cyrus Vance...
Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance remained unavailable yesterday to comment on reports that he is slated to receive an honorary