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  Cyrus Vance
Nachdem er 1942 an der juristischen Fakultät Yale abgeschlossen hatte, diente er in der Navy bis 1946 und arbeitete dann in einem Anwaltsbüro in New York, bevor er in die Regierung eintrat.
Vance versuchte, eine Abrüstung zu erreichen, indem er an dem SALT II-Abkommen mit Russland arbeitete, welches er als zentrales diplomatisches Abkommen dieser Zeit ansah.
Vance kehrte zu seinem Anwaltsbüro zurück, wurde aber wiederholt während der 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren in den öffentlichen Dienst zurückgerufen, um an diplomatischen Missionen nach Bosnien-Herzegovina, Kroatien und Südafrika teilzunehmen.
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 Cyrus Vance - MSN Encarta
In 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent Vance to Detroit to act as a negotiator in the wake of urban riots.
After returning to his law practice for several years, Vance was picked by President Jimmy Carter to serve as secretary of state in 1977, a post in which he earned a reputation as a competent administrator but not as an innovative policymaker.
During the early 1990s, because of his skills as a negotiator and his friendship with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Vance was selected to be a UN mediator.
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 Why We Go to War - Cyrus Vance
Vance was appointed general counsel for the Department of Defense in 1960.
Vance sought to continue the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, and he worked to procure the SALT II arms-control treaty of 1979.
Vance worked vigorously during 1979-80 to secure the release of captive U.S. diplomats in Iran but resigned from the cabinet over opposition to Carter's abortive rescue mission in the spring of 1980.
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  Cyrus Vance Summary
Cyrus R. Vance (born 1917) was Secretary of the Army (1962-1964), Deputy Secretary of Defense (1964-1967), and Secretary of State (1977-1980).
Vance graduated from Kent School in 1935 and received a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Yale University, where he was a member of the secret society, Scroll and Key.
Vance returned to his law practice at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett in 1980, but was repeatedly called back to public service throughout the 1980s and 1990s, participating in diplomatic missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa.
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Cyrus Vance was a man quick to appease and slow to react.
Cyrus Vance took the stance that we needed to work with the Sandinistas so that while they stayed leftwing they might maintain a nonaligned stance.
Cyrus Vance was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara and his closest advisor.
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 Europaworld 18/1/2002 Cyrus Vance Dies at 84
Cyrus Vance, the former US Secretary of State in President Carter's administration died this week in New York at the age of 84.
Vance served as UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar's Personal Envoy to Yugoslavia at the outset of the Balkans conflict.
Vance later served, along with Lord Owen, as Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, which at the time provided a permanent negotiating forum for seeking a political solution to all the problems of the former Yugoslavia.
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 Greater Clarksburg Visitors Bureau
Born December 3, 1921 in Clarksburg and already a star of the New York City Opera when she made her Metropolitian Opera debut in 1961, soprano Phyllis Curtin is remembered both for her creation of new parts (the title role of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, for example) and for her dedication to song recitals.
Vance then returned to his law career in the public sector but was frequently called upon to negotiate regional conflicts in such hot spots as South Africa, Croatia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Vance passed away in New York City January 12, 2002 at the age of 84.
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 In Memoriam: Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1917-2002)
Cyrus Vance exemplified all that was good of the Eastern establishment.
Vance was a graduate of Kent School, one of the nation’s most exclusive private schools.
Vance is survived by his wife, Grace Elsie Sloane, their five children and two grandchildren.
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  GOV SITE
Vance is currently a principal at the law firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. Originally from New York City, Mr.
Vance co-founded a Seattle, Washington law firm, McNaul Ebel Helgren & Vance, one of the pre-eminent litigation firms in the Northwest.
Vance served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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  Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Vance, (March 27, 1928 - January 12, 2002), was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.
Vance tried to advance arms limitations by working on the SALT II agreement with Russia, which he saw as the central diplomatic issue of the time.
Vance returned to his law practice in 1980, but was repeatedly called back to public service throughout the 1980s and 1990s, participating in diplomatic missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa.
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Vance was the nephew (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic Presidential Candidate and noted lawyer John W. Davis.
Vance graduated from Kent School in 1935 and received a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Yale University, where he was a member of the secret society, Scroll and Key.
Vance was the Secretary of the Army in the Kennedy administration.
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 Cyrus Roberts Vance, Lieutenant, United States Navy & Public Official
Cyrus R. Vance, who after two decades in public service was appointed secretary of state, and who then took the rare step of resigning from the nation's highest cabinet post on a matter of principle, died Saturday afternoon at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Vance was secretary of state from 1977 until 1980, when he resigned in protest over President Carter's decision to try a military rescue of American hostages in Iran, an action that he considered ill advised and futile.
Vance was repeatedly called back to the public arena to use his quiet negotiating skills on some of the bloodiest conflicts of the 1980's and 1990's: in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia; in South Africa; and in a disintegrating Yugoslavia.
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 Cyrus R. Vance - SourceWatch
Cyrus Roberts Vance (deceased 2002) “American lawyer and public official who was secretary of state from 1977 to 1980 during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
Vance sought to continue the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, and he worked to procure the SALT II arms-control treaty of 1979.
Vance worked vigorously during 1979-80 to secure the release of captive U.S. diplomats in Iran but resigned from the cabinet over opposition to Carter's abortive rescue mission in the spring of 1980.
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 Cyrus Vance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vance graduated from Kent School in 1935 and received a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Yale University, where he was a member of the secret society, Scroll and Key.
Vance was the Secretary of the Army in the Kennedy administration.
Vance returned to his law practice at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett in 1980, but was repeatedly called back to public service throughout the 1980s and 1990s, participating in diplomatic missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa.
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 Obituary: Cyrus Vance   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The news of Cyrus Vance's death on January 12 brought back the memory of a golden autumn afternoon in 1992 we spent discussing the intricacies of the Balkans at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Vance was at that time the U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's special representative charged with the impossible task of mediating the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Vance's position was made difficult by the President's lack of strategic objectives, his hesitant nature, and his frustrating proneness to micromanagement.
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 Cyrus Roberts Vance - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As President Carter 's secretary of state, Vance opposed the 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran and resigned after the mission failed.
Cyrus Vance; Cyrus Roberts Vance, a principled statesman, died on January 12th, aged 84.(former Secretary of State)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Cyrus Vance Award named for former U.S. secretary of state.
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 Cyrus Vance - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cyrus Roberts Vance (1917-2002) served under Jimmy Carter as Secretary of State from 1977 until the April of 1980 when we resigned in protest over a secret mission to rescure hostages being held in Iran (see Iran hostage crisis).
Vance received a bachelors degree from Yale, where he was a member of the secret society, Scroll and Key.
Vance also was a member of the Trilateral Commission.
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 Cyrus R. Vance
Cyrus Robert Vance, named by President -elect Jimmy Carter on Friday to become secretary of state, is a Clarksburg native who developed an early interest in legal matters while growing up here.
His great-grandfather, Cyrus Vance, had been mayor and his grandfather, John Vance, was a member of the first legislature at Wheeling, after the state split from Virginia.
Later Vance attended Kent School, a private prep school in Connecticut, and was graduated in 1939 from Yale University with a degree in economics.
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 Guardian | Cyrus Vance
In spite of a long career in the higher reaches of the US government, Cyrus Vance, who has died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84, left strangely little mark on the history of his age.
Vance's cautious, one-step-at-a-time approach was wholly at odds with Brzezinski's brash need to dig up the roots of international relationships and replant them according to America's election results.
In part Vance was a victim of the political geography of Washington.
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 Cyrus Vance Biography (Lawyer/Government Official) — Infoplease.com
Cyrus Vance was Secretary of State under U.S. president Jimmy Carter, holding the office from 1977 until he resigned in 1980.
Vance resigned his post because he disagreed with a military plan to rescue U.S. citizens being held hostage in Tehran, Iran (the plan was carried out and failed).
A lawyer, Vance had also been a long-time official in the Department of Defense, a veteran of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (1960-68).
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 [Deathwatch] Cyrus Vance, Former Secretary of State, 84
Saturday January 12 11:28 PM ET Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance Dies By Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cyrus Vance, who died on Saturday at the age of 84, was a rare Secretary of State, having resigned in protest over the botched attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran.
Vance, who had worked on treaties between the United States and Panama, China and the Soviet Union, said he was finally defeated by Bosnia in 1993.
Vance began his assignment for the United Nations late in 1991 and negotiated a cease-fire between Serbs and Croats in Croatia that led to the stationing of 15,000 peacekeepers to the newly independent republic.
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 The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice provides support to lawyers around the globe who engage in activities that expand access to justice, ensure a fair and equitable judicial system, develop public policies that address social needs, and create public confidence in the legal profession.
In Africa, the Vance Center is working to diversify the ranks of lawyers in commercial practice and encourage the growth of pro bono in South Africa through the South African Visiting Lawyer Program.
The Vance Center is working with the Committee on Women in the Profession of the New York City Bar to make the committee's manual on promoting women in the legal profession available to lawyers in Latin America and Africa.
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 j. - Cyrus Vance, who helped broker Camp David deal, dies
Vance, who died Saturday in New York at age 84, served as the nation's chief foreign policy administrator under President Carter, when the United States negotiated the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
Vance's principles led to his most famous decision, his 1980 resignation protesting Carter's decision to use force to try to rescue American hostages in Iran.
In the Johnson administration, Vance served as general counsel at the Pentagon and later secretary of the army and deputy secretary of defense.
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 Guide to the Cyrus R. Vance and Grace Sloane Vance Papers : Finding Aid
After resigning in 1967, Vance was asked by Johnson to ensure federal recovery assistance at the 1967 Detroit riot, and in 1968, to negotiate with Greece and Turkey to avert war in Cyprus.
Cyrus Roberts Vance was born 27 March 1917 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to John Carl and Amy (Roberts) Vance.
Vance's involvement in the United Nations Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to broadening public knowledge about the United Nations is documented in discussion outlines, proposals, articles, reports, testimony transcripts, and correspondence, all of which especially focus on his work as Policy Studies Committee chairman in the early and mid 1970s.
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 Yale Daily News - Cyrus Vance's death marks passing of an era
Vance is among a handful of Yale graduates who deserve our attention not only for their national leadership but also for their dedication to this university.
Vance was, many could say, one of the last remnants of a bygone era.
Vance was able to view Yale as a mythical place and as a vibrant institution which deserved his attention, even in the midst of national service.
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 The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice provides support to lawyers around the globe who engage in activities that expand access to justice, ensure a fair and equitable judicial system, develop public policies that address social needs, and create public confidence in the legal profession.
In Africa, the Vance Center is working to diversify the ranks of lawyers in commercial practice and encourage the growth of pro bono in South Africa through the South African Visiting Lawyer Program.
The Vance Center is working with the Committee on Women in the Profession of the New York City Bar to make the committee's manual on promoting women in the legal profession available to lawyers in Latin America and Africa.
www.abcny.org /VanceCenter/index.htm   (599 words)

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