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...Raymond Vernon, Dillon Professors of International Affairs, said JFK "accomplished great things of spirit but little of substance...
...stern reads: PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT. Next door, Gary Fricke says his furniture store lost money last year, and business this year is off another 50%. Mike Riemenschneider, who bought the town's Jack and Jill Supermarket in 1979, has watched sales droop 15%. Says Vernon Waterman of the farm-implement business he runs with his wife Margaret: "I'm surviving on service, but losing money every day. I'm barely in business, and it won't get any better until corn and soybean prices get better...
David E. Patterson Mount Vernon, Ohio...
Smith argues that over the past 18 months Washington spurned at least three separate diplomatic initiatives by Havana. Last November, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig met secretly with a Cuban official in Mexico City; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Vernon Walters conferred with Castro in Havana four months later. Both meetings were unproductive. As a good-will gesture, Smith contends, the Cubans also informed the U.S. in December that they had stopped shipping arms to Nicaragua, implying that they had turned off the weapons flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Washington responded by further lambasting the Havana regime in public. Smith...
...stabbed 15 times by six black prisoners. But last week in a federal courtroom in South Bend, Ind., Franklin smiled at jurors and flashed a V-for-victory sign. They had just found him not guilty of violating the civil rights of former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan, who was wounded by rifle shots two years ago outside a Fort Wayne, Ind., hotel...