biography
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Vance, Cyrus (Roberts)
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| lived:
| (1917–2002)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and public official, born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He studied at Yale, became a lawyer, and entered government in 1957. He joined the Kennedy administration in 1960, becoming secretary of the army in 1962. President Johnson appointed him deputy secretary of defence (1963), but he later resigned (1969) and returned to private law practice. He was appointed secretary of state (1977) by President Carter, and is remembered for his work as a peace negotiator, notably towards an arms-limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. He worked with Lord Owen for the UN Security Council as the secretary-general's representative during the Yugoslavian conflict, and was instrumental in drawing up the unsuccessful Vance–Owen peace initiative (1992–3). |
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