Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON : Walters Resigning as Envoy to Bonn

Vernon A. Walters, a veteran Army officer and Cold War diplomat, is resigning as U.S. ambassador to Germany after two years in the post, it was announced in Washington. He created a stir a few months after arriving in Bonn by predicting imminent unity of the two Germanys, then saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall and, shortly after, reunification. Walters enlisted in the Army in 1941 and retired as a lieutenant general in July, 1976. He became President Ronald Reagan’s chief diplomatic trouble-shooter and was named U.S. envoy to the United Nations in 1985. He was deputy director of the CIA from 1972 to 1976. Walters, 74, gave no reason for his resignation.