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Even before Egypt raised its flag over El Arish, Ambassador-at-Large Robert S. Strauss, 60, was raising his own in Washington. President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East talks on Palestinian autonomy began serving notice that he intends to play a dominant role. "I've got a mandate from the President," he told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein. "I consider myself a full partner with him and the Secretary of State." In mid-May, Strauss announced that he would make his first visit to Cairo and Jerusalem in his new role at the end of June...
...Strauss plans to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and Foreign Minister Huang Hua today, possibly in an effort to break the impasse in the textile negotiations...
PEKING--U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert Strauss said yesterday he has given Chinese representatives three days to decide on the U.S. terms for a textile agreement, but he called chances of settlement "iffy...
...cost of peace for both countries thus appears to be higher than anyone had anticipated in either Cairo or Jerusalem-or Washington. "The hostility toward the treaty is more intense than I expected," admits Middle East Envoy Robert S Strauss. But optimists on both sides emphasized the hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt...
Since Bert Lance left, the White House has suffered by not having any top ambassador to business. Robert Strauss got close to the job for a while, but then was sidetracked into foreign trade and Middle East policy. Businessmen consider Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal to be too wounded by sniping from the White House's Georgia Mafia to be an effective envoy. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps is the Cabinet's best bridge between the White House and business, but, says Jack Carlson, "she heads a weak Cabinet department and does not have the clout...