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...camps in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda, the organization headed by Osama bin Laden. The bomb inside his shoe was a sophisticated one. In fact, it turns out to be a favorite of European al-Qaeda operatives. Both FBI and French law-enforcement sources tell TIME there were palm prints and hair on the shoe that didn't belong to Reid. Clearly he had had help...
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...
...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 of the cia in 1972. He retired...
...just flunked breast reconstruction. Bad enough that I went through all that pain for the sake of vanity, but then I got a massive infection and had to have both implants taken out. I'm embarrassed about it, although my chief cancer mentor, Marlyn Schwartz (who went to the Palm for lunch after every chemo session), has forbidden this particular emotion. So now I'm just a happy, flat-chested woman...
...POWs under the Geneva Convention. The American people support the humane but no-frills manner in which our military is treating the Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners. It would be a sad day if we caved in to the blame-America-first loony left on this issue. AL FORMAN Palm City...