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...effort to get the stalled Middle East peace talks moving again, the U.S. last week asked both Egypt and Israel to send representatives to a Camp David summit with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Chances are that both sides will accept, but on Jerusalem's part not without a certain amount of rancor. Reason: in an annual report to Congress on the state of human rights around the world, Vance's State Department alluded guardedly to reports of "systematic" mistreatment of Arab security suspects from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Although the department declined to endorse...
...highly suspicious and certainly angry Soviets, who have already been stalling on the nearly completed SALT agreement, protested Teng's "incendiary statements." Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Etobrynin went to ask Secretary of State Cyrus Vance for an explanation of U.S. behavior. Vance told him that the word hegemony was not intended by the U.S. to be anti-Soviet...
...International Development. A former Congressman and Governor of Ohio from 1970 to 1974, Gilligan clashed with top Administration officials over the policies of the bureaucracy that in fiscal 1978 dispensed $1.7 billion in foreign aid. In fact, the resignation may have been forced by his boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Gilligan was never personally close to Carter, and his tenure has been in doubt for some time. His own response to such talk: "I'm not leaving until the guy kicks me out." That apparently is what Cyrus Vance did last week...
Shortly after the U.S. announced its rapprochement with the People's Republic of China last December after nearly 30 years of bone-deep hostility, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance declared: "A new era is upon us." But the idea of "a new era" is a hard one to grasp, and despite acres of newsprint, miles of film footage and endless commentaries, nothing is likely to drive home the reality of it all more effectively than the tableau that is to unfold this week: a diminutive (barely 5 ft.), elderly (74 years) Chinese gentleman alighting from a white Boeing...