Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that some U.S. arms went directly to the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's most radical faction. And when North and Poindexter tried to open a "second channel," they wound up dealing with some of the same principals. One of the Iranians may have helped plan the kidnap- murder of William Buckley, the CIA operative in Lebanon whose capture especially angered Reagan and Casey...
Hoping to provoke a little candor among the six Republican presidential candidates on his television show, William F. Buckley Jr. asked Pierre du Pont why he would be a better choice than Jack Kemp. As du Pont began to answer with practiced evasion, Bob Dole broke in: "You're looking at me. Kemp's over there." "Yeah," replied du Pont evenly, "but the camera's behind you." Television, once the terror of politicians because it revealed character, now merely shows their carefully fashioned synthetic facades...
When the Democrats held their first debate, in July, there were signs of opening-night nervousness: Albert Gore mangled the name of President James Polk, and Bruce Babbitt bobbed and weaved in his chair like a young Muhammad Ali. Last week it was the Republicans' turn to face William Buckley's Firing Line. From the moment the G.O.P. six-pack strode onto the Houston stage, all visual cues suggested that they were indeed different from their Democratic counterparts. They seemed reassuringly familiar, more experienced, older and collectively radiated -- to borrow one of Buckley's Latinisms -- gravitas...
From the outset, Woods Hole's Ballard has been sharply critical of the French expedition. "By what right did they take a piece of human history and destroy it?" he asks. But to say that the salvage operation exploited the Titanic, recently wrote William F. Buckley Jr., who visited the Titanic site last summer as a guest of the French, is like "saying that Gauguin exploited Tahiti...
...addition, the city should not fear density, and should "Preserve its weave and texture," said Michael Buckley, a real estate developer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...