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DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the tiny, home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam vet launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop dusting and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation...
Abrams rose to national prominence as an attorney for the New York Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to block the Gray Lady from printing a classified report on the Vietnam War. The Times won the case—in part, according to Abrams, because Nixon’s lawyer, Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, performed “lamely” in front of the Supreme Court. (Griswold, a former Harvard Law School dean, will go down in the history books for being on the wrong side of the high court?...
...We’re all here today fighting for freedom, democracy, and Vietnam,” he said...
...Copley Square luncheon, whose guests included Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54, D-Mass., and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Khai said that Boston’s success in forging a bond between its universities and technological innovation is a strong model for countries like Vietnam...
...first thing to do to apply this experience is to build an international-standard university in Vietnam and we look forward to your assistance to make this happen,” he told the American officials in attendance...