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...Wednesday, the vastly improved Celtics return from a tough five-game road trip to face the hapless Clippers. If you're looking for a Boston win, tonight's the night with the winless Clippers, who without the immortal Loy Vaught on their roster have no cohesion whatsoever. FleetCenter, 7 p.m., tickets available through TicketMaster...
...found a dual expression, matching in some ways the tension in his personality between his populist leanings as an Elvis Presley-loving son of a small-town nurse and his intellectual elitism as a Rhodes scholar and full-time wonk. He developed an intense relationship with the Rev. W.O. Vaught of Immanuel Baptist, a biblical scholar known for his erudition, whose sermons were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental counsel. Vaught, who died of bone...
...political uses: several Pentecostal pastors served as conduits between him and the religious right on issues like the state regulation of church- based schools and day-care centers. But what began as a political stopover in Redfield in the late '70s also became a different kind of pilgrimage. Vaught would often voice his disapproval of the Pentecostals for their emotionalism, but Clinton returned every year, sometimes with his saxophone, and his ties grew more solid in the weeks after his 1980 defeat when two Pentecostal ministers sought him out at the Governor's mansion to offer love, comfort and prayer...
...story of the secret army begins in late 1979, when the Pentagon set up a task force under the command of Army General James Vaught to plan a rescue of the hostages in Tehran. The CIA had no agents there, so the Army organized a Field Operations Group that slipped four intelligence officers into Tehran, where they gathered vital information on the situation at the embassy. Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April...
...White House direction, Vaught began planning Honey Badger, a second rescue attempt uniting aviation and intelligence in a predominantly Army operation. The Army developed special equipment: one-man satellite- communications radios, Black Hawk helicopters modified to fly longer distances, and what one source describes as "very small, very capable, very exotic" 500MD helicopters equipped with advanced navigation and communications capabilities. But by then, the U.S. could never pin down the location of any group of hostages long enough to mount a rescue...