Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack at the problem...
...wrong." That is what settling insurance claims teaches: how often in real life things go wrong. And when that happens to soldiers and spooks, Clancy says, "very often you get hung out to dry. All those Marines who got blown up in Lebanon got hung out to dry. William Buckley, the CIA officer who got captured by the bad guys in Beirut, was hung out to dry. We do that a lot; it's probably the most despicable thing our Government can do. But it happens, and that's what I decided to write about...
...where they are held, but the ability of U.S. intelligence to discover the whereabouts of the hostages is still limited. Terrorist cells are small, often based on family ties, and very hard to crack. The killing of two of the CIA's top Middle East operatives, former hostage William Buckley and Robert Ames, severely crippled what little was left of any U.S. intelligence network in the region...
...Beirut station chief William Buckley, kidnaped March 16, 1984, dies in captivity. The body is never released. On Oct. 4, 1985, Islamic Jihad announce that it killed...
...ease with myself. I was invited, first by the government of Japan, and then this private organization entered in. That corporation has pledged a very sizable gift to my library. And I think there is a possibility that there will be other such things from that. My friend William Buckley asked me to be on the board of the National Review. I thought I could do that...