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...specific countries than the Secretary ever can; he must draw on their expertise and give them a sense that their advice is taken into account in formulating policy. But he cannot tolerate endless squabbling and wars of newspaper leaks among his subordinates; he must run a tight ship, as Cyrus Vance, for one, did not. On Reagan's transition team, there is already quarreling between members who favor an ultratough policy toward...
...Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig, Francis Duehay, John Travolta, Sid Vicious and Jim Craig. Theda...
Meanwhile, the outgoing Administration was quarreling over what had been the failures of U.S. foreign policy in the past four years. Brzezinski squared off once again against Cyrus Vance, his adversary when Secretary of State. Brzezinski said last week that he interpreted Reagan's victory as signifying that Americans are ready to back a "policy of assertive competition" with the Soviets. Brzezinski implied that the Administration, when it agreed with the State Department, had been too soft on the Kremlin. He said U.S. lack of response ,to Moscow's sup port of Ethiopia in its war with Somalia...
Responding to a question implying that he had violated security by publishing his magazine account, Sullivan said he originally promised not to go public but changed his mind after Cyrus R. Vance resigned as secretary of state in protest of the aborted rescue mission last April and was subsequently chided by Carter...
...days of Carter's stewardship contending that behind the beatific smile and inside the big heart lurks a nasty impulse, most often contained by success but apt to escape in times of stress and failure. Thus did Carter say unfortunate things publicly about Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Cyrus Vance. But almost always the calm returned, and for the most part Carter appeared to practice the good will that he preached and prayed...