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...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 after four years and in 1981 started a 10-year stint as a diplomat including three at the U.N. DIED. NANDOR HIDEGKUTI, 79, legendary Hungarian footballer who was part of the Hungarian squad that won gold...
...increases in defense and security spending, President Bush’s budget reins in domestic expenditures. President Franklin Roosevelt, Class of 1904, showed us that this is a prudent course in a time of war. Between 1942 and 1944, non-war spending was cut more than 20 percent. President Truman went further, reducing non-defense spending 28 percent in one year during the Korean War. Without the need for full mobilization, non-war and non-security expenditures will increase next year, though only at a modest 2 percent. The dismal fiscal and economic environment that followed the Vietnam War should...
...bust up terror cells worldwide can take decades, and terrorism, like crime, can't be eradicated by a single attack. As a model for fashioning a long-term game plan, Bush aides have been looking at old cold-war national-security documents, such as NSC-68, a plan the Truman Administration drafted in 1950 to contain the Soviets...
David McCullough AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS AND TRUMAN...
...Truman said, "We can never tell what's in store for us." How in the world could George W. Bush have ever known that he would have to face the worst day in our history or that we would see in him the kind of vitality and crispness--of prose and decision--that he's demonstrated...