Obituaries : Arthur Macy Cox, National Security Consultant

Arthur Macy Cox, 72, consultant on foreign affairs and national security who advocated East-West accord. Cox had been secretary of the private, nonprofit American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations, which worked for peace between the superpowers until it disbanded earlier this year. A native of Missoula, Mont., and a graduate of Dartmouth College, Cox served in the Office of Strategic Services secret intelligence branch during World War II, and helped plan the successor Central Intelligence Agency for which he worked until 1961. Cox wrote four books on dealing with the U.S.S.R. and served as consultant at various nuclear arms control conferences. As a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in the 1960s, he proposed alternative approaches for a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam War. On Thursday in Washington after a stroke.