MARCH 16

In case you think that today's troubles are unique, here are two news items that might interest you.

On this date in 1984, William Buckley, our CIA station chief, working out of our embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists of Hezbollah and later died in captivity.

On this date in 1985, Terry Anderson, an Associated Press journalist, was captured and taken hostage by Shiite Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and held for over six years.
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