European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday May 25, 1986 w Hen Vernon a. Walters was military Altache 10 Brazil in 1964,before he dreamed he would represent his government at the United nations. Soviet ambassador Andiori Foit in buttonhole him at a reception and anti cited . Diplomats. The trouble with you americans is that you never want to learn anyone Elso s language. You always demand that people speak English Ullh you Fomin said. Wallers politely old he ambassador in English that he was mistaken then shifting to russian said target these communist fairy tales and challenged him to debate in portuguese. Fomin aware thai Walters could out Duel him in portuguese carried the Day with a riposte in English Walters you May be a Good Soldier but a Diplomat you Are  As the chief . Representative at the United nations Dick Walters is striving to prove himself a Diplomat As Well As a linguist. He travelled throughout Africa last year and visited latin american countries this year to Sway them to the . Point of View in heir votes at the United nations. Among the milestones of his . Tenure says Walters were endorsements by the Security Council and he general Assembly last december of . Sponsored resolutions condemning terrorism and hostage takers. He is also proud of . Decisions to report on human rights in Afghanistan Nicaragua and Iran three governments hostile to Washington. Walters who does rot have a College degree shares the conservative views of his predecessor Jernej. Kirkpatrick. Bui he avoids the ideological lectures that characterized Kirkpatrick a University professor and instead makes his Points with Jovial anecdotes puns and occasional Sharp jabs in any of the eight languages he Speaks. I would t say i be turned the tide in the United  Walters said. I would like to leave the legacy that we have started a movement towards changing these countries voting according to some imagined alignment rather than according to her own National interest. A great number of the countries that vote against us As part of the non aligned bloc really have common interest with  As roving ambassador Lor president Reagan 1981-85, Walters 69, logged 10,000 Miles a week. He has slowed the Pace Only slightly since taking the in. Post in May 1985, moving his Bulky 6-foot-3 Inch Frame often in secret from continent to continent carrying messages from the White House to presidents and prime ministers. On a Mission last month Walters was unable to Sway America s european allies except for great Britain to support the . Air raid on Libya. In an interview in his modest sixth floor Olifice at the state department he declined to discuss reports that French leaders while denying . Bombers permission to Fly Over France Enro Ute to Libya had urged tougher action to topple col Moa mar khad Afy if i were to comment on that i would never be Able to talk to the French again because they would never Trust me never talk to me again. That would not be i think in the interest of my  Walters has been speaking to the French in their own language since he spent a decade there As a child. He also Learned Spanish. Italian and German in childhood and has since added portuguese dutch and russian. When you can talk to someone in their own language you have a Means of communication that you Don t have through a third party he said. Except for four years during the administration of Jimmy Carter Walters has served his country since 1941, when he enlisted in the army As a private. His linguistic prowess led him quickly up the ranks in the intelligence service As an interrogator and staff aide mainly in North Africa and Italy. Early in the War Walters translated for Winston Churchill Gen. Charles de Galla Eleanor Roosevelt Gen. George Marshall and the future King Hassan of Morocco. Alter the War he served As translator and aide to president Truman helped Marshall implement the Marshall plan in Europe assisted Averell Harriman in unsuccessful negotiations with iranian Leader Mohammed Mossadegh and accompanied president Eisenhower and vice president Richard Nixon on sensitive diplomatic missions. As military attache in Paris in the Early 1970s, he helped Henry Kissinger conduct Clandestine talks with the North vietnamese and arranged the secret meetings that paved the Way for the trips by Kissinger and Nixon to peking that opened the door to better  relations. Nixon rewarded Walters with an appointment As Deputy director of Central intelligence in 1972. But Walters loyalty was to his country and he threatened to resign when administration aides asked him to deflect heat from the White House to the Cia during the watergate crisis that led to Nixon s resignation. Walters retired from the army in 1976 As a three Star general. Asked which of thu six . Presidents he has served came closest to the american Ideal of a leaner Walters chose Eisenhower then quickly noted that his present Boss shares Many of the qualities that he says helped Ike produce the Golden years of american history like president Reagan he had this ability to communicate and project said Walters. There was a sense of integrity and sense in the Man i think that was recognized All Over the world. Of course it was a time of overwhelming . Predominance in Power and that made it  Walters has visited 121 countries look them during the Reagan administration but has never been to the soviet Union. I m very curious. I would like to see what it is like he said. Like other conservatives of his generation who have seen America lose the Power to impose its will on Moscow and the rest of the world waiters Speaks Ullh admiration toward Reagan and Ullh bitterness toward those who oppose administration efforts to Send Aid to the Contra rebels battling Nicaragua s leftist government. One of president Reagan s great achievements is lifting us out of the Vietnam syndrome and giving us Back our self Assurance and our Pride and dissipating this guilty Complex Walters says. There is a double Standard you see. When we introduced a Resolution a Long time before the fall of nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in the organization of american states calling for the overthrow of Somoza they accused us of meddling he said but when we Call for the overthrow of a marxist Leninist regime and Are criticize that s a double Standard he said. Walters life has been his Job fast paced and without a wife. He has hobbles other than collecting languages. He is an avid photographer leaning from a helicopter during a visit to Vietnam in 1967, for instance to take close up Home movies of tree tops and tracers whizzing by and packing a video camera they seem to get smaller every time i visit the far East on recent trips. Why i did t marry i guess i did t find the Rish person. Twice i thought i had. But it did t work out he said. Diplomat linguist Dick Walters by Bryan Brumley associated press i