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Uneasy Count. It was the face-saving opening the negotiators wanted. Yes, that might be possible if he agreed to free the hostages. He was willing. The ambassadors' work was done. Said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance later: "To these three ambassadors-humanitarians and diplomats in the highest sense-we offer the gratitude...
Just Semantics. But there is a difference between such bloopers and Carter's own policy pronouncements. While he sometimes stumbles over fine points of diplomacy. Carter's remarks have generally been deliberate despite their informality. Before his news conference last week, both Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House National Security Adviser, suggested that Carter not use the term defensible borders. They proposed a more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter...
Although there is no chance that the council will heed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's suggestion that it formally concede Israel's right to exist, the Palestinians now realize they risk losing the support of oil-rich Arab states if they do not soften their position. Wearing his usual cartridge belt and revolver, an unshaven Arafat outlined his opinions in an interview with TIME'S Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Beirut before taking off for the Afro-Arab summit in Cairo. Excerpts from the interview...
...this a threat to détente? Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who makes his first visit to Moscow this month as Secretary of State, did not think so. "Détente does exist today," he told a press conference in Washington last week, "and I believe and hope it will continue." Despite their protests over Western "interference," Vance added, Soviet leaders have shown "a continuing deep and abiding interest" in reaching agreements on arms control, trade and other issues with the U.S. Western analysts, and diplomats generally, agree that the dispute over human rights resembles a skirmish...
...Army, in charge of thousands of Army lawyers around the world. "It's a rare challenge. It's having an impact on things that matter," said Jill. She may also have her foot in the right door. Her predecessors in the job: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Secretary of HEW Joseph Califano and Strategic Arms Negotiator Nominee Paul Warnke...