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  Kukui Roadhouse: 03/16/84 William Buckley Hostage
The diplomat was identified as William Buckley, a political officer at the embassy.
The kidnapped diplomat was identified as William Buckley, a political officer at the embassy.
Buckley was flown by from Damascus to Tehran after his abduction.
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 Buckley Transcript 2
BUCKLEY: And they called my ancestor, mother and her children on this side of the river and they went over and joined them over there and when it was dark could go over to the fort at Millpoint.
BUCKLEY: Well, that was my, my father was born and raised on the banks of the river down here and the ____ was a ____ and sawmills would saw walnut, cherry lumber and things like that and they would stack it along the river and my dad would built it into a raft.
BUCKLEY: That's the only one that now of that he was probably one of the Hatfield clan down in Mingo County, because his boy, Troy, went back after his father was killed left here and went back to Mingo County.
www.marshall.edu /speccoll/cass/html/buckley_transcript_2.htm   (2622 words)

  
 Highlights - Legends - William Buckley
The William Buckley story is a fascinating tale of survival against all odds and symbolises living in harmony with Koories.
Buckley was eventually pardoned by Governor Arthur in 1835 and acted as a guide accompanying such settlers as Captain Foster Fyans.
Ironically, William Buckley died a poor man in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1856 from injuries caused in a traffic accident.
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 A Journalist for the Ages
Buckley, representing New York's Conservative Party, which was just three years old, won 13 percent of the vote.
Buckley, for whom the nation should give thanks, turns 80 on Thanksgiving Day, and National Review, the conservative journal he founded in the belly of the beast -- liberal Manhattan -- turned 50 this month.
Buckley, so young at 80, was severely precocious at 7 when he wrote a starchy letter to the king of England demanding payment of Britain's war debts.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112301669.html   (449 words)

  
 William Francis Buckley, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
Colonel Buckley served in Vietnam with MACV as a Senior Advisor to the ARVN.
Buckley was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1955 to 1957 and again from 1965 until his untimely death.
Buckley, chief officer for CIA in Lebanon when was taken hostage in March 1984, were flown to the US this evening for funeral services.
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 Geelong Heritage - William Buckley
William Buckley's adventures have left a lasting legacy on the language.
Buckley was eventually discovered and given a pardon.
William Buckley Discovery Trail brochures are available at Visitor Information Centres within the region.
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 William F. Buckley, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buckley is the author of a series of novels featuring the character of CIA agent Blackford Oakes.
Buckley's son, Christopher Buckley, is an author, essayist and humorist.
Buckley's younger brother, Fergus Reid Buckley, is an author, debate-master, and founder of the Buckley School of Public Speaking.
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 Online NewsHour: William Buckley-- October 7, 1998
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: Well, I think it's plain that the fact that he did what he is alleged to have done is on the record.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: Yes, I do, because I think that if we have just gone through in the last six months had -- so much has been suggested ten, fifteen, twenty years ago - he would have been simply out of office.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: The answer is we ought to rely on the fact that there is a vice president with credentials.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec98/buckley_10-7.html   (1465 words)

  
 A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley Jr., by Gore Vidal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckley hosts a television program and conducts it with a flourish and a zest, with such brilliant gestures and hand movement, that Gore Vidal is reported to have called him ‘the Marie Antoinette of American politics.’" Now to include Buckley in a list of homosexuals is doubtless slanderous.
Buckley does indeed like to give the impression that he is "the tablet keeper of history:" for the movers and shakers, and his journalism is filled with little anecdotes as to how Reagan introduced him as a speaker one night in California, or "I have had exclusive interviews with Mr.
Buckley is not of course a "pro crypto Nazi" in the sense that he is a secret member of the Nazi party (and I respond to Buckley's charming apology to me with mine to him if anyone thought I was trying to link him to Hitler's foreign and domestic ventures).
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 William F. Buckley
Buckley was tortured and it was soon discovered that he was a senior CIA officer.
On March 16, 1984, William Buckley, officially described at the time as a diplomat attached to the U.S. embassy, was kidnapped off a Beirut street by elements of Hezbollah, a fundamentalist Shiite group with strong links to the Khomeini regime.
Buckley was the first American taken hostage in a string of terrorist acts by Lebanese disciples of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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 William F. Buckley Jr.: An Appreciation
Try William F. Buckley Jr., author, columnist, magazine founder, host of one of television's longest-running talk shows – and a man whose impact on the media is almost as large as his celebrated vocabulary.
Buckley was first in many areas and inspired a generation – my generation – to follow in his footsteps.
Buckley made his mark because he was himself, something rare in a media world run by focus groups and target demos.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed080900.cfm   (746 words)

  
 A Birthday Tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr. by David Gordon
Buckley did not scruple to mock Rothbard, who, "huffing and puffing in the little cloister whose walls he labored so strenuously to contract", was left with "about as many disciples as David Koresh had in his little redoubt in Waco.
Buckley vehemently opposed the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959: for him, as the historian Patrick Allitt has made clear, the struggle against the visit was a veritable Crusade.
Buckley was now without apology an exponent of standard power politics, and he did not even pretend to reconcile his views with the individualist tradition.
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 William Buckley Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckley served four terms as chairman, four terms as vice chairman, and four terms as secretary.
Buckley’s paramount concern was always to protect the best interests of the school and its students.
Buckley and his wife, Claire, have lived in Holbrook for 49 years.
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 William Francis Buckley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Buckley served in Vietnam with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, or MACV, as a Senior Advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
However, Buckley's remains were not recovered until 1991, when his remains were found in a plastic sack on the side of the road to the Beirut airport.
According to the biographical information distributed by the CIA, Buckley was "an avid reader of politics and history" and "a collector and builder of miniature soldiers." The latter hobby enabled him to become a principal artisan in the creation of a panorama at the Lexington Battlefield Tourist Center near his native Bedford, Massachusetts.
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 William F. Buckley
Buckley, William F. In April 2000 Buckley spoke at a Republican "think tank" in Minneapolis, Minnesota (the Center of the American Experiement,) where he spoke a number of gross exagerations about US tax policy and effects (information, by the way, apparently derived from other exaggerations of the same figures--from the movement-sponsored Tax Foundation).
Conservative writer William Buckley was in town last week, and the Star Tribune devoted two separate articles to his thoughts.
The second Buckley whopper was his claim that 95 percent of income taxes are paid by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans.
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 Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative, CBS News Exclusive: Buckley Criticizes President For Interventionist Policies - ...
Buckley's Stamford, Conn., home is a tranquil place that allows Buckley to think, write and spend time with his canine companion, Sebastian.
Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.
Buckley does support the administration's approach to the North Korea's nuclear weapons threat, believing that working with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea is the best way to get Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/22/eveningnews/main1826838.shtml   (679 words)

  
 Why William F. Buckley, Jr. is Wrong about Drugs
Buckley has eloquently opined in favor of drug legalization for years, noting that drug legalization is not "the equivalent of moral acquiescence in drug abuse." He simply believes it is the only realistic way to resolve a war that is impossible to win.
Buckley has fought valiantly, in what seemed to be losing wars, throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
William Buckley and the others who partook in his symposium to legalize narcotics remark on how the length of sentences for drug possession has rapidly increased over the past decade.
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 Amazon.ca: Elvis in the Morning: Books: William F. Buckley Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckley captures the hope, the yearning, the magic and pathos of the '50s and'60s as few authors have in this Almost Famous-like reflection on two turbulent decades.
Buckley should stick to the incomprehensible conservative yammering for which he is much beloved, and leave the novels to people who know how to write.
Buckley was trying to advocate a message (though I don't think he was), he failed.
www.amazon.ca /Elvis-Morning-William-Buckley-Jr/dp/0151006431   (2705 words)

  
 William F. Buckley
Buckley's next project would make criticizing those politicians into a merry art-a mighty engine for massing right-wing fellow travelers into a community, a force, a band of brothers and sisters ready to take on the (liberal) world.
Buckley himself is considered a most accomplished journalist; he writes for dozens of newspapers with a circulation of millions.
Buckley was in Mexico for the CIA on what he recently described as a "tangential special project." They quickly befriended each other, and Buckley is the godfather of three Hunt children.
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 Amazon.ca: Nuremberg: The Reckoning: Books: William F. Buckley Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckley's protagonist, Sebastian Reinhard, is unusually well equipped to understand the proceedings: a German-born American officer who eventually discovers that he's part-Jewish, Reinhard lost a father to the Nazi war machine and witnessed the carnage that Hitler's megalomania had wrought.
Buckley's Blackford Oaks novels were always quie riveting, particularly as he used historical personalities as major players in his plots (JFK, Khrushchev, Castro).
Buckley's book illustrates some of the "sensitivities" that had to be worked out among the allied powers so the Nuremberg Tribunnal could actually have happened.
www.amazon.ca /Nuremberg-Reckoning-William-Buckley-Jr/dp/015602747X   (1527 words)

  
 ReidBlog: The apostasy of William Buckley
It is CBS News that details the nature of Buckley's apostasy, while Reed projects that soon, National Review staffers will begin a whispering campaign about Buckley's apparent senility...
Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.
Read more of the Buckley interview here, surprisingly free of comment from the NRO senility police.
blog.reidreport.com /2006/07/apostasy-of-william-buckley.html   (483 words)

  
 American Writers: William F. Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William F Buckley asserts the CONSERVATIVE point of view as it pertains specifically to theory of EDUCATION.
Buckley often begins chapters with QUOTATIONS that capture the MAIN IDEA of the entire chapter.
Buckley attacks the LIBERAL slant of professors at Yale, and criticizes the impact IDEOLOGY has on their TEACHING.
www.americanwriters.org /classroom/resources/tr_buckley.asp   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.com: God and Man at Yale: Books: William F. Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckley earned the right to be the quintessential role model for conservatives because of his courage and gift of clearly communicating his argument in a logical manner.
William F. Buckley forms the argument that Yale University of the late 1940's and early 1950's has a school of thought about economics, religion, and society that are not consistent with the values and goals of the alumni of the period the book was written.
Buckley is perhaps the modern architect of a conversation revolution that has been growing over the last forty years.
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 Thanksgiving for William Buckley | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Buckley, representing New York's Conservative Party, which was just three years old, won 13 percent of the vote.
Buckley, for whom the nation should give thanks, turns 80 today, and National Review, the conservative journal he founded in the belly of the beast – liberal Manhattan – turned 50 this month.
Buckley, so young at 80, was severely precocious at 7 when he wrote a starchy letter to the king of England demanding payment of Britain's war debts.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051124/news_lz1e24will.html   (407 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | December 27 | Joanna Southcott St John the Divine Apostle ...
Buckley must have been a splendid young man, being nearly seven feet high; even at the present moment there is something original, but quite sedate about him.
Buckley was concerned that they were preparing him for dinner, but was reassured when he was given a plate of witchetty grubs, roasted roots, and some hunting and fighting weapons as was worthy of a loved one returning from the dead.
Life and Adventures of William Buckley: 32 Years a Wanderer with journalist John Morgan, eventually receiving a pension of ₤30 per annum from the Victorian Government for services rendered to the colony of Victoria.
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 William F. Buckley
At Yale, Buckley was the star of the debating team, and earned his bachelor's degree in 1950.
Buckley's newspaper column, accurately titled "On the Right", was syndicated beginning in 1962, and in 1965 he ran for mayor of New York on the Conservative Party ticket, receiving about 13% of the vote.
As AIDS became a topic of conversation in the 1980s, Buckley suggested that those diagnosed with the disease should be tattooed on their backsides, presumably to protect uninfected Americans.
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 William F. Buckley News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
By William F. Buckley Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House, has told us that she will call up as maybe the very first order of business increasing the minimum wage.
Agree with William F. Buckley or not, he was a conservative "public intellectual" and a serious Catholic; his National Review existed to think about and explicate Conservatism --and it set the terms of the...
By William F. Buckley Wednesday, October 11, 2006 When Dear Leader sat his counselors down, the radio turned on, instant translator at hand, they listened to hear the repercussions of their bulletin about the...
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 William Buckley Reports on a Tour of Duty
But they are questions to which Buckley himself professes to know no answers; more important, they are questions that stealthily allow us to consider a topic that interests us (Richard Nixon's psychology) and to sidestep he topic in which Buckley wishes to interest us (the U.N.).
But even those for whom Buckley is ordinarily as soporific as the United Nations itself should find ample reason to bear with him this time.
Buckley's conclusions may be valid as far as they go (he does not, for example, consider the work of the U.N. Secretariat or the specialized agencies); and in any event, only a veteran diplomat could refute his argument.
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 Buckley, William F(rank), Jr. - MSN Encarta
His syndicated daily newspaper column first appeared in 1962, and his weekly television discussion program, “Firing Line,” was syndicated in 1966.
Among his books are God and Man at Yale (1951), an indictment of liberal education in the United States; Up from Liberalism (1959); The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966), about Buckley's unsuccessful mayoral campaign in 1965 as the Conservative Party candidate in New York City; and Quotations from Chairman Bill (1970).
Buckley's other books include Racing Through Paradise (1987), On the Firing Line (1989), The Culture of Liberty (1993), and Brothers No More (1995).
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