Word: buckleys
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Terry A. Anderson and David Jacobsen made their appeal in a 10-minute tape delivered to the Beirut offices of two Western news agencies by Islamic Jihad, the organization holding them. They also said hostage William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat kidnapped in March 1984, had been killed in captivity...
...President Reagan made his first mistake in the hostage crisis, and Buckley died," Jacobsen said. "Mr. President, are you going to make another mistake at the cost of our lives...
With well-known contributors like William F. Buckley and Joyce Carol Oates, Art & Antiques has gained a reputation for provocative reporting. One article last year raised questions (still unresolved) about the authenticity of the Antioch chalice, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and purported to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper. A few months ago, a man speaking broken English wandered into the magazine's offices. He turned out to be carrying slides smuggled out of the Soviet Union showing works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts never before seen in the West...
...remaining Western hostages in Lebanon. Among them are three Americans still held by the same group: Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson, 38, David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Another American hostage, William Buckley, 58, a U.S. embassy political officer, was reported slain by Shi'ite extremists last October, but his death has not been confirmed. In addition to the Americans, there are seven Frenchmen, two Britons, an Irishman, a South Korean and an Italian who are missing and believed held by Islamic Jihad...
Washington has long provided a fertile setting for satirical novels. The classic of the genre is Henry Adams' Democracy, published in 1880, which bitingly portrayed the social and political corruption of the time. This year has produced Christopher Buckley's The White House Mess, a comedy about Administration intrigue, and John Ehrlichman's The China Card, a thriller loosely based on the China policy of his former boss President Nixon. Particularly since Watergate, journalists have attained star quality, becoming part of the panoply of fictional heroes and villains. Indeed, Regrets Only hit Washington at the same time as the movie...