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Carter was also eager to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship, which he felt had preoccupied postwar American diplomacy. His advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around...
...Soviet detente that marked the early 1970s. Detente has actually been disintegrating for five years, with the U.S. bearing a fair share of the responsibility. In addition, the zigzags of the Carter Administration unquestionably have confused and worried the Soviets?from the toughness of the first Cyrus Vance SALT proposals in 1977, and Carter's outspoken human rights
Despite the discouraging word from Iran, Waldheim left for Tehran just hours ahead of the Security Council's approval of a U.S.-sponsored resolution giving him seven days to break the impasse before the start of the debate on.sanctions. In proposing the sanctions resolution, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reminded the council that Iran had ignored three U.N. demands to free the hostages. Said Vance: "The time has come for the world community to act firmly and collectively, to uphold international law and preserve international peace. If the international community fails to act when its law is flouted...
...limousines, especially the Brezhnev-clone Soviet premier, Maxim Rudin, are not amused, and Rudin's Kremlin rivals want to use the crisis to get the old curmudgeon bounced. Back in Washington, Bill Matthews and Assistant for National Security Affairs, Stanislaw (read Zbigniew) Poklewski, and Secretary of State David (read Cyrus) Lawrence want to use the shortage to wring concessions out of the Russians...
...Saturday, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sought support for a two-part U.S. proposal in private meetings at the U.N. First, the Security Council would send U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to Tehran to seek the release of the hostages. Next, if the Waldheim mission did not succeed within a certain number of days, perhaps ten, Iran would be punished by a U.N. trade embargo, exempting only food, Pharmaceuticals and oil. But this approach also ran into opposition from the council's Third World members. They were willing to send Waldheim to Tehran, but they did not want...