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Although military action was decided on Monday, April 7, final approval of a plan and targets did not come until the following Sunday. That allowed time for a last-minute mission by Vernon Walters, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and a veteran troubleshooter, to sound out European allies on their attitudes. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he visited in quick succession London, Madrid, Bonn, Paris and Rome...
...large wrench was thrown into the operation when the French and Spanish refused to permit F-111s to fly over their territory. A mission by U.N. Ambassador Vernon Walters to line up support from the allies failed to change their minds. So instead of flying 1,600 nautical miles due southeast from Britain to their targets, the squadron would be forced to keep to international skies and detour 2,800 nautical miles around the Iberian peninsula...
...remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers. The poet proved himself up to such demands. "I am the most unreliable friend that ever was," he confessed in a letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed to show up for the ceremony. To his credit, Thomas usually knew when he had behaved unconscionably. "I owe you so many apologies I don't know where to begin," he opened one missive in 1950, and variations on this...
Because democracies don't tend to ally together, the U.S. tends to lose in most U.N. votes, said Vernon A. Walters, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Besides, said Walters, free countries only comprise one-third...
Lehigh was led Monday night by a pair of 24-point performances by starting guards Mike Androlewicz and Vernon Doswell. Together, the two hit on 20 of 22 free throw opportunities...