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DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who served seven Presidents; in West Palm Beach, Fla. He helped craft the Marshall Plan and used his fluency in eight languages to open doors for U.S. intelligence. A deputy CIA chief for Nixon, he once translated an address for the visiting Charles de Gaulle, who later told Nixon, "You gave a magnificent speech--but your interpreter was eloquent...
...fraud; in Miami. Over three decades, Posner built an industrial empire worth $4 billion but in 1987 pleaded no-contest to tax evasion charges and was banned in 1993 from serving as an officer in a public company. DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, retired Army lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; in West Palm Beach, Florida. Walters' military career began at the outset of WW II, and his linguistic abilities?he spoke seven foreign languages?led him to become a globe-trotting envoy for U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon?who appointed him deputy director...
...news: his office has a bank of 33 television sets so he can monitor all available satellite channels at once. In contrast to more remote royals, Abdullah has become a populist prince, touring the country and even munching burgers in fast-food restaurants. Says Wyche Fowler, American ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1996 to 2001: "His leadership is essential at this particular time in Saudi history...
...Washington, including one handwritten by Bush himself. Then, while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat and none on Israel. He instructed Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar to deliver a stark message: relations were at a crossroads, and Saudi Arabia would now look after its own interests, thank...
...gate waiting to see the press counselor (who never was located) I saw dozens of Afghans drop off job applications, letters chronicling how a member of their family had been jailed for years by the Taliban suspected of being a CIA spies, and handwritten demands to see the ambassador...