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...Bureau in Port-Vila, the capital, apparently without the permission of Prime Minister Walter Lini's government. Not that Lini dislikes Libya. Indeed, his Vanua'aku Party reportedly plans to send 70 political activists to Tripoli for paramilitary training. Two smaller groups have already made the trip. When Vernon Walters, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, arrived in Port-Vila a month ago during a South Pacific tour, security men were alarmed to find the two Libyans registered at the same hotel as the ambassador...
...example, among the goalies competing in Moncton were Doug Dadswell, Ken Heinz, Mike Vernon, and Blair from Calgary, along with Bill Ranford, Doug Keans, and Cleon Daskalaskis from Boston. In short, some serious number-crunching had to be done...
...that allowed the thrifts to expand their business proved a major disaster in the Southwest, where a sizable number of thrifts stampeded into risky real estate loans and other questionable investments. In many cases the institutions also succumbed to old-fashioned peculation. A spectacular case in point was the Vernon Savings & Loan Association of North Dallas, which was shut down in March with a deficit of more than $350 million. Vernon was purchased in 1982 by Don Dixon, 48, a North Dallas real estate developer. In six years Dixon pushed Vernon's assets from $82 million to $1.7 billion through...
...Vernon, Florida--Brattle Theatre...
...Using a computer to write letters," says Ronald Coleman, a Mount Vernon, Ohio, maker of glass sculpture, "is like using a cannon to hunt rabbits." That may be so, but an awful lot of Americans are still taking that high- caliber approach to communication. An estimated 7.1 million personal computers were sold in the U.S. last year, almost every one capable of diverse tasks that range from preparing income-tax returns to managing the inventory of a small-to-medium-size business. Yet word-processing tasks, including the laborious business of writing and editing letters, lists and other manuscripts, account...